The clubland of Capetown looks to him as its humorous and sententious oracle : he is a good hand at cards and the best of good company . ..
22.
Critic Paul Brenner wrote, " Many of Griffith's features suffer from sententious moralizing, a sense of God speaking to the masses, and outright racism.
23.
In Act 1, Scene 3, Polonius gives advice to his son Laertes, who is leaving for France, in the form of a list of sententious maxims.
24.
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 ).
25.
Sometimes in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama the sententious lines appear at the end of scenes in rhymed couplets ( for instance, John Webster's Duchess of Malfi ).
26.
He was an ingenious, sententious, sweet, gallant and brilliant Catalan poet, as his book shows " [ translation of Spanish original ] ( f . 104r ).
27.
There are two moments, one early and one late, in which the sententious hooey is cast off and some of the old " Star Wars " spirit peeks out.
28.
It is addressed to Fulke Greville, and written, with much sententious melody, in a sort of terza rima, or, more properly, ottava rima with the couplet omitted.
29.
Its attacks on " poetic license " and the antirealism of domestic tragedians and morally sententious authors was an attack on the values central to the Whig version of personal worth.
30.
Since the material in " Maxims I " is sententious in its character, it is regarded as gnomic poetry as opposed to a collection of proverbs or merely wise sayings.
