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sentencioso (-a)

sententious

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Her famous charm and sparkle is rather lost in her written observations, which tend towards the conventional, verging on the sententious. www.standard.co.uk

Cartoons aren't sententious the way columnists are, cloaked in erudition and pseudo-evidence. rabble.ca

The mood and the pace are also freighted with sententious moralising about personal responsibility, loneliness and destiny, culminating in a warning to be careful what you wish for. www.telegraph.co.uk

He was fond of laments, the use of stichomythia and gnomic or sententious lines (often indicated in his published plays by the use of marginal quotation marks). en.wikipedia.org

Immensely popular during the early part of his career, his works were subsequently dismissed as sententious and sentimental. en.wikipedia.org

Words can be stilted, as though mortals are mere mouthpieces for sententious statements, with the plot dancing along a bit disjointedly before sputtering out strangely in the end. www.vueweekly.com

His style is grave and sententious. en.wikipedia.org

He is obsequious towards the powerful, arrogant towards the weak, sententious and narrow-minded. en.wikipedia.org

He said so many wise things to us and uttered them in so pithy and sententious a style that one could never forget them. en.wikipedia.org

They often have a sententious tone and convey a feeling of intimate pain. en.wikipedia.org

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