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• s  abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
  too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
• s  concise and full of meaning
  the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

• Another sententious observation would be equally true: crime's victims are no strangers to grief.
• I didn't take it that way: to me it was (intentionally, I thought) a bit of a cornball, even sententious, world-weary pickup line.
• Graves is plain where FitzGerald is prettified, philosophic where FitzGerald is sententious.

• pithy

Quotes

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• David Astor in The Guardian
  When the initial campaign was over, David Astor wrote to Koestler, "I don't want to sound sententious, but want to say all the same that I believe your 'hanging' journalism has contributed something of real value to this country and this newspaper....
• Lewis Lapham in Toronto Star
  And what did he learn, the professor, from his poking around in Afghan tents and Balkan graves? If nothing else, how to write sententious and vacant prose, most of it indistinguishable from the ad copy for an Armani scarf or a Ferragamo shoe,...