sententious

1 Sententious sage! So it is: but I swear by my household gods not to abuse it.

善用格言的圣人！就是这么回事，但我以家神的名义发誓，决不滥用。

2 I had worries about finding the right language, one that was neither sentimental or sententious goo, nor psycho-babble.

3 He possessed, besides, a certain dry sententious humour, of which the effect was heightened by the inflexible gravity of his countenance, and by the low tones of a voice altogether unambitious of emphasis.

4 Similarly, Ross’s scattershot vigor gives way to Lawrence’s grandiose, sententious bombast.

5 The style of sculpt makes the character sententious and general, exerting the function of "writing" greatly and easily according the demand of literati expressing their emotion.

这种造型方式使形象更加简化概括，更能发挥“写”的功能，也更容易符合文人雅士们抒发感情的需要。

6 He replenished it with stately argument and thrilling verse, and sprinkled it over with sententious wisdom and proverbial pungency.

7 The document was too sententious and pompous.

这份文件过于说教式的，华而不实。

8 The pompous, pedantic, venomous Monsieur Cardinal will long survive as the true image of sententious and self-glorifying immorality.

9 Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apotghem; sententious; pithy.

10 Bening’s performance is a different story altogether—she virtually makes the movie, sending even simple lines from its often sententious script deftly spinning and leaping in surprising flourishes.

11 a smug and sententious writer

12 The generici or common-places were sententious maxims, descriptions, outpourings of emotion, humorous and fanciful diatribes, declarations of passion, love-laments, ravings, reproaches, declamatory outbursts, which could be employed ad libitum whenever the situation rendered them appropriate.

13 What of its sententious and cynical inscriptions, which glorify the lost cause, the valor, the duty, without any mention of slavery or insurrection?

14 Dialogue is rendered in the pseudo-profound pronouncements that have become the sententious lingua franca of the hero’s quest.

15 Aloud, Harold said, "There's no accounting for the love affairs of a young girl," which sententious remark really expressed his inmost thoughts.

16 “I’m off,” said Sam, in his short, sententious way, and rushed toward the river.

17 As Harry said in sententious vernacular, 'I wasn't having any.'

18 She is brief, terse, sententious; her mind being evidently bent on things rather than on words.

19 Observe that the first sentence, though purely in the way of narrative, is just as sententious in form as the graver proverbs of each master that follow.

20 While Mr. Davis’s music was far from universally acclaimed — the “New Rolling Stone Record Guide” once called it “sententious Muzak” — he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006.

1 言简意赅

elliptically sententiously sententiousness

2 言简意赅的

concise laconic

3 说教的

didactic homiletic predicant

4 庄重

heavy serious decent grave solemn demure pomposo gravity decency solemnity solemnify

5 做作

tatty-peelin flash scenic strained pretentious grandiose Hollywood stilted feigned factitious put-on grandiloquent orotund minikin bigass act art semblance pretension dramatics artificiality grandiloquence pose dramatize

6 格言

gnomical axiomatic gnomic say word sentence phrase wisdom saw saying parable maxim gnome precept axiom adage dictum aphorism moralism apothegm apophthegm wise saw

7 爱说教的

moralizing

8 简练

elegant pithy lapidary economy restraint brevity

9 简洁

short clean tight brief compact elegant neat economical thumbnail concise compressed succinct taut chaste terse pithy laconic telegraphic monosyllabic compendious short-winded shortly severity chastity brevity compaction concision gracility laconism in small compass crisp clear-cut epitomize telegraphical nutshell laconical severely brachylogy laconicism

10 警句

epigrammatic crack phrase mot aphorism sally epigram laconicism catch-phrase punch line

11 庄重的

heavy serious decent grave solemn demure pomposo

12 说教式

sententiously

13 警句的

epigrammatic

14 说教

didactic preach moralize sermon homily sermonize

15 道貌岸然的

sage

16 做作的

tatty-peelin flash scenic strained pretentious grandiose Hollywood stilted feigned factitious put-on grandiloquent orotund minikin bigass

17 格言的

gnomical axiomatic gnomic

18 金言

adage

19 简洁的

short clean tight brief compact elegant neat economical thumbnail concise compressed succinct taut chaste terse pithy laconic telegraphic monosyllabic compendious short-winded crisp clear-cut telegraphical nutshell laconical

20 简练的

elegant pithy lapidary