1. To be really bad, a film should be pretentious and sententious . 2. Bobby can fe0gqually sententious when it comes to developments in his own life. 3. They were usually sententious and often self-congratulatory. 4. They often have a sententious tone and convey a feeling of intimate pain. 5. She wasn't always very good at it; the art can be sententious . 6. Are all ideals the product of circumstance ? " The answer might have been sententious . 7. He is obsequious towards the powerful, arrogant towards the weak, sententious and narrow-minded. 8. They are full of trope and figure, frequently with much force of application, quaint and sententious . 9. Americans get annoyed when Europeans sound " hand-wringing and sententious and patronizing, " he said. 10. He followed these with two sententious novels about the False Dmitry ( 1830 ) and Ivan Mazepa ( 1834 ).
