sententiousness
- a word derived from sententious.
Example Sentences
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The formal power of Limón’s group choreography cuts through the sententiousness and martyrdom.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022
Some of Lovell’s descriptive epithets even recall the comic sententiousness of Ernest Bramah’s tall tales about the resourceful Kai Lung.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021
A marvel of steady and dispassionate self-revelation, Diski’s cancer essays are bracingly devoid of sententiousness, sentimentality or any kind of spiritual urge or twitch.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2015
His solemnity and sententiousness are much better, much funnier, coming from someone so "young".
From The Guardian • May 18, 2012
Mr. Ludsbury emitted a single chuckle from deep in his throat, then his face turned brick red momentarily and he assumed his customary sententiousness.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
