The use of " sententiae " has been explained by Aristotle ( when he discusses the " gnom?", or sententious maxim, as a form of enthymeme ), Quintilian, and other classical authorities.
42.
Material from this book is quoted directly or indirectly by Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Attic dialect, with a style that was dignified and perspicuous, and abounded in sententious passages inspiring a favorable opinion from Photius.
43.
:I remember a sly peasant in his " H�tte ", dressed in traditional costume, of sententious speech and shifty eye, apparently lacking in shame and anxiety, protected by his knowledge and flattered by his discipline.
44.
This has been described as " " a medley in which legendary history, love romance, sententious praise of virginity, rough and tumble clown-play, necromancy and all kinds of diablerie jostle each other " ".
45.
Her early journalistic sallies were sententious in tone, very much in accord with the literary conventions of the day, but her mature writing was concerned mainly with those issues which affected women's status in the home and community.
46.
Shaken, he wrote that " in the midst of this American society, so well policed, so sententious, so charitable, a cold selfishness and complete insensibility prevails when it is a question of the natives of the country ."
47.
Fry gave Anouilh's sententious declarations on the mysteries of love and life a Wildean ring, and the play's presiding grande dame ( played here by Marian Seldes ) can indeed come across as a worldlier version of Lady Bracknell.
48.
The first section ( ll . 1-44 ) of the prologue is written in quatrains and is referred to as the " strophic prologue ", while pairs of quatrains, of sententious content, mark the main divisions of the story.
49.
Though the planned plot development would have called for greater depth and seriousness, the tone set by the existing first part is exuberantly humorous, with Thackeray employing a mix of sententious satire, acid social commentary and his gift for outright farce.
50.
Frank Forrest ignores his father's sententious advice; but during the evening Rainsford insults Old Forrest to his son's face, calling him a " fool " and " dotard . " The two draw their swords and fight, and Frank Forrest is killed.
