Plump, foolish, conformist and sententious, Joseph was called by Honor?de Balzac l illustre type des bourgeois de Paris ( the classic example of the Paris middle-classes ).
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"' Rostyslav Dotsenko "'( * 19 April 1931, Kyiv 24 October 2012, Kyiv ) Ukrainian translator, literary critic, author of aphorisms and sententious.
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One of the film's running pieces of spirit-buoying black humor arises from a pompous UN official's sententious announcement that Sarajevo has become the 14th most deadly place on earth.
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In early Islamic times it seems to belong to repartee, sententious sayings, the epigram, solemn utterances such as paternal advice, religious formulae, prayers, elogia addressed to princes and governors.
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Rod McLachlan's priest has that solemn-voiced quality conflicted priests always seem to have in the theater, and Ron Butler's defiant, wisdom-spouting drag queen is unavoidably sententious.
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His mantra, " greed is good, " strikes a sententious, faintly absurd note in the amoral world of " Boiler Room, " in which greed is simply axiomatic.
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According to the " Dictionary of Literary Biography ", modern historians of drama have generally considered Griffith's plays " undistinguished, often dramatically inept and tediously sententious " ( 175 ).
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Kevin J . O'Connor plays him as a sententious macho blowhard, a comic foil given to muttering possible titles for " A Moveable Feast " ( " A traveling picnic ?"
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At the same time, as the work is mostly written in a concise, sententious form, with the aid of aphorisms, and as the reasonings are not sufficiently closely connected, it is at times somewhat obscure.
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The phrase sums up the existential condition of not only writers but also everyone who surrounds them in this sententious offering from the Irish author of " Dancing at Lughnasa, " one of the finest dramatists now working.
