sententious

• But just now private members' nights stand in the same relation to the Session as the sententious traveller found to be the case with snakes in Iceland. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• Were we to define truly what is meant by safety or salvation, we should be spared further elaboration, and the law would stand out as a sententious common-place. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
• Occasionally his remarks bordered upon the sententious, but he never "orated," invariably using a conversational tone; many of his points were driven home by humorous allusions or anecdotes rather than by didactic logic. —  Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
• Well, you shall first see the Ladies, and then prepare for your Uncle Moses_, the old Jew Guardian, before whom you must be very grave and sententious: You know the old Law was full of Ceremony Feth. —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
• I don't mean to be sententious, but this is the death-grapple that is coming. —  Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond

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