| He supplies a grand moral sententiousness blessedly free from the messy squalor of life as it's lived here, I suppose. |
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| Its prose aims for tough-minded simplicity but keeps landing on simpleminded sententiousness. |
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| This sententiousness mars several otherwise vivid poems, but it is hardly a fatal flaw. |
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| This can expose his flaws, which range from minor sententiousness to major sentimentality, but his gaudiest excesses are kept in check this time out. |
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| Drawing on the Old Testament, the Talmud, and the Hebrew poet and philosopher Ibn Gabirol, Santob's Proverbios introduced Hebrew poetry's grave sententiousness and aphoristic concision. |
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| A self-confessed bibliophile, this show felt like an autobiography but without any hint of sententiousness or showboating self-satisfaction. |
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| One can imagine the sententiousness with which many writers would respond to this question. |
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| The artist's seriousness, which sometimes threatens to tip over into sententiousness, is balanced by the vein of dark comedy that runs through his work. |
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