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  • Brent spoke in sententiae or outright nonsense — “The point is, you talk the talk but you do not walk the walk, vis-à-vis, you have not yet passed your forklift-driver’s test!”

    Brit Wit 2009

  • Brent spoke in sententiae or outright nonsense — “The point is, you talk the talk but you do not walk the walk, vis-à-vis, you have not yet passed your forklift-driver’s test!”

    Brit Wit 2009

  • ] [Footnote 280: London, O.J. Clay and Sons, 1895.] [Footnote 281: Fortuna occurs many times, as in the so-called sententiae Varronis printed at the end of Riese's edition of the fragments of Varro's Menippean satires.

    Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • This was what Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, Archbishop of Genoa from 1946 to 1987, decided to take with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre before the latter was subject to latae sententiae excommunication, following the ordination of four bishops consecrated without the necessary authorization of the Pope in 1988.

    Cardinal Siri and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre 2009

  • Somewhere in a warehouse in Northampton is my Addisonian essay entitled "On Reading," complete with sententiae and learned quotations and the one "A" I ever earned in that class.

    Progress Report deliasherman 2010

  • The following day it was announced by Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, at that time head of the Congregation of Bishops in Rome, that all six men had incurred excommunication latae sententiae (automatic excommunication), the penalty laid down in the revised Code of Canon Law, Canon 1382, for directly participating in an episcopal consecration in the absence of

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • Although most Roman Catholics anguish little, if at all, over being latae sententiae automatic excommunicated, I suspect the sting of the threat of laicization is not at all lost on Father Bourgeois.

    Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience Michele Somerville 2011

  • Although most Roman Catholics anguish little, if at all, over being latae sententiae automatic excommunicated, I suspect the sting of the threat of laicization is not at all lost on Father Bourgeois.

    Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience Michele Somerville 2011

  • Indeed, in the Middle Ages sententiae were short passages from longer works that were copied out and rearranged for their moral or amorous wisdom—a meaning still preserved in the adjective sententious.

    Sentences 2009

  • Indeed, in the Middle Ages sententiae were short passages from longer works that were copied out and rearranged for their moral or amorous wisdom—a meaning still preserved in the adjective sententious.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

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