Posted on 09/27/2012 4:24:29 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
sententious \sen-TEN-shuhs\, adjective
1. Abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
2. Given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.
3. Given to or using pithy sayings or maxims: a sententious poet.
4. Of the nature of a maxim; pithy.
Example sentences:
For he was a poet and drowned untimely, and his verse, mild as it is and formal and sententious, sends forth still a frail fluty sound like that of a piano organ played in some back street resignedly by an old Italian organ-grinder in a corduroy jacket.
-- Virginia Woolf, "Street Haunting: A London Adventure," Collected Essays
It was inconceivable that she was using the boring, sententious, contentious Shepherd for anything but a hollow threat to him, but this semblance of wrongdoing could now be turned to advantage.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
Etymology:
Sententious is related to sententia, the Latin root for the word sentence. The Latin word sententiosus meant "full of meaning, pithy."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Just irrelevant.
A lot of money is bet on NFL football. If giving into ridiculous demands is what it takes, it is what it takes.
Of course, those who bet the pros the last three weeks are degenerate gamblers as how can you handicap bad calls...
I LOVE that line!
the whole thing is incredibly stupid IMO. by all means let’s facilitate the sports book industry. RME.
Goodell, NFL was sententious
Effete, arrogant and contentious
While I hate union thuggery
The bizarre Packer muggery
Finally got Rog to act conscientious
After all, if your guy is so comfortably ahead, why even bother to lift a finger to help Obozo if he's coasting to re-election.....hmmmmm?
Can anyone explain the neologism of the word "Misunderestimated"?
Furthermore, should we apply this word to describe the current election cycle and suggest that perhaps Romney's voter base is not as advertised by the media polling?
A++
I hope you are feeling better. The word “misunderestimate” springs from the same lips that brought us “strategery.” Miss him yet?
Ann Coulter’s new book, “Mugged”, will certainly be sententious if her previous tomes are examples.
business is business.
This is a Jackie Chiles word if I ever saw one.
Nice article - thanks.
Now could we get Jane Skinner’s husband to talk to Bettman? A+ for you.
That’s what has me wondering about ozero’s trips to Ohio. If it’s so in the bag, why waste the money? A for you.
No doubt. A for you.
It’s an infringement on your constitutional rights. It’s outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
The sententious Madam O is very pretentious when it comes to the food Americans eat, but her husband can be quite abstentious when it comes to following her diet recommendations...
The good news is Cleveland has been going to hell for awhile and the population has been leaving slowly over the last decade, and the other two cities, Columbus and Cincinnati, have slowly been growing over the same time period.
Ohio has approxoimately 8 million register voters, in the 2008 election, Ohio had 5.5 million vote. Obozo got 2.94 million, and McStain got 2.67 million.
In 2010, only 3.7 million voted in that election and the Governors election was on the ballot but he only won by 80,000 votes.....in 2011 the voter registration went down to 7.7 million in the state (300,000 less voters were registered) a year after a Republican Governor won and a Republican Sec. of State won and 3.6 million showed up to vote on the referendum of the government union contracts, just like Wisconsin BUT the unions won and the three cities I mentioned in the first paragraph above all voted heavily for the union position but the way the ballot wrote the issue up it was confussing to understand wheither to vote yes or no....this is why Ohio is a mystery.....
Finally, Democrat ID is down by like 3% in the state, Republican ID is up by 5.5% and Indie ID is like up 12%.....with this in mind I think these polls are cherry picking their numbers in heavily democrat counties located all over the state.
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