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Перевод: sententious

[прилагательное]
нравоучительный; сентенциозный

Тезаурус:

1. The rest of the traders, however, again expressed shock/horror at the very idea and were usefully sententious with it.
2. In one of her letters the poet mentions having had a letter from an aunt whom she describes as "sententious" ML, 2, 311.
3. A sententious, self-righteous approach as the artist-legislator spoke a mixture of scorn and complacency that most politicians know how to avoid, suggested that keeping Mr Kureishi off one's bandwagon was the beginning of wisdom.
4. On its own this reads like a perfectly ordinary youthful Europeanized sententious romantic flourish.
5. A sententious older brother.
6. Glasser's prose is sometimes declamatory and sententious in an old-fashioned sort of way, and sometimes awkward ("Hidden in the near future, he was to be proved right").
7. Richard Armstrong's documentary adventures, exciting and authentic as they are, have a strain of sententious comment which deadens the flow of narrative and may even set up a certain resistance on the reader's part.
8. These lines illustrate the sententious moralizing that the eighteenth-century reader would associate with the stanza, and look forward to its even more emphatic use in Elegiac Stanzas (p. 140).
9. One of her sententious entries reads: "Tactlessness is often taken for sincerity, and sincerity is in turn often taken for a compliment.
10. "How Long Can This Go On", "Save A Soul In Every Town", "Ideal World", - even the CRASSEST agit-pop militancy is preferable to this cooing and billowing Radox bath of sententious platitudes.
11. It must be admitted, too, that sceptical Allan, who resists Ayesha's sexual dominance except in one brief moment, gives us a far less exalted and unreal portrait of her and a more active, interesting view of her circumstances than the sententious scholar Holly did.
12. The sententious Mr Barlow, the local clergyman, teaches Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton through a series of instructional and moral tales.
13. Vadim Medvedev: "His grossly sententious remarks and stale vocabulary that reeked of hack journalism were unbearable."