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"I have not quite finished," said Ralph, looking a little strangely at the minister. "You ought always to finish one subject before you begin another," said Mr. Welsh, with a certain slow sententiousness. By-and-bye Ralph got away from the table, and in the silence of his own room gave himself to a repentant and self-accusing day of study.
Baines answered with that sententiousness which even the cleverest of parents are not always clever enough to deny themselves, "I hope that both of you will do what you can to help your mother and father," she added. "Yes," said Sophia, irritated. "But what am I going to DO?" "That must be considered.
Thus, there is the rounded period and flowing sententiousness of Louis XIV., the more polished but less forcible phraseology of the regency itself, succeeded by the epigrammatic taste and pointed brevity introduced by Voltaire.
"My boy," he replied, as he patted me on the back, "I sleep far more comfortably in my bed." I realized where the contents of the bottle had gone by the sententiousness of my friend's phrasing, the slight turgidity, so to speak, of his articulation. "My dear boy," he continued, "I have never known you until this moment. You are greater than Columbus.
Downrightness and sententiousness are prime qualities; brevity, concreteness, spontaneity in fact, all forms of genuine expression help make literature. You know the genuine from the spurious, gold from pinchbeck, that's the rub. The secret of sound writing is not in the language, but in the mind or personality behind the language.
Monsieur Hulot junior was in every respect the young Frenchman, as he has been moulded by the Revolution of 1830; his mind infatuated with politics, respectful of his own hopes, and concealing them under an affectation of gravity, very envious of successful men, making sententiousness do the duty of witty rejoinders the gems of the French language with a high sense of importance, and mistaking arrogance for dignity.
The maxim "What is worth doing at all is worth doing well," if carried to its ultimate conclusion by the over-careful, would justify the expenditure of a quarter of an hour in sharpening a lead-pencil. This maxim, while losing in sententiousness would gain in reason if it ran thus: "What is worth doing at all is worth doing as well as the situation demands."
Leslie, had I thought as you do some years since, I had saved myself from many a trouble. After all, Ambition is the best mistress to woo; for with her there is always the hope, and never the possession." "Ambition, Count," replied Randal, still guarding himself in dry sententiousness, "is the luxury of the rich, and the necessity of the poor."
Angiolino!" "Sissignora," murmured the boy. "Tell me about Signor Graziano." "He is our padrone; he is never here." "But he is coming to-day. Wake up, Angiolino. I tell you he is on the way!" "Between life and death there are so many combinations," drawled the boy, with Tuscan incredulity and sententiousness. "Ah!" cried the girl, with a little shiver of impatience. "Is he young?" "Chè!"
"They seem to be as violent as the women who tore up Orpheus," said Lady Gosstre. Tracy Runningbrook shrieked, in a paroxysm, "Splendid!" from his couch on the sward, and immediately ran off with the idea, bodily. "Have I stumbled anywhere?" Lady Gosstre leaned to Mr. Powys. He replied with a satiric sententiousness that told Lady Gosstre what she wanted to know.
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