Further, the play is all too successful in replicating the sententiousness and sanctimony of recovery jargon, at least as overheard by an outsider.
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It avoided the issue-movie trap of sententiousness while communicating the sadness and injustice of a bigoted culture standing in the way of two women's happiness.
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" You or I might have smacked him upside the head for his sententiousness, but Baxter squares her jaw and resolves to do what's right, so other young women don't get ruined or, at the very least, "changed.
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Henry David Thoreau's call in 1854 to "simplify, simplify" was a kind of recluse's mantra, as well as an act of protest against the modern world that would serve as a future model for solitary artists, but as Kathryn Schulz argued in a Thoreau takedown in The New Yorker in 2015, reclusiveness can also breed narcissism and sententiousness.
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The book's emphasis on the importance of the scripture marks it clearly as a reformist work, as does its promotion of the Lutheran concept of justification by faith alone. Parr, however, carefully avoided extremes and criticized the sententiousness of "vain gospellers", although never directing any criticism on anyone in particular. She argued that the Reformation urged Christians to look to themselves rather than to judge others.
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Shakespeare's Politics was and is largely ignored by the literary establishment. Ronald Berman panned it in the Kenyon Review, taking issue with the Merchant of Venice chapter as "[having] the usual sententiousness about the problem of being Jewish...all of which was pretty well settled some 50 years ago by E.E. Stoll" and with the Othello chapter as "written in virgin ignorance of the massive scholarship."Berman, Ronald. Review of Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom with Harry V. Jaffa.
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Christine Rees has termed it "a drama of family relationships" which features the strong "moral sentiment" common of many 18th century writers. However McMillan argues that "the writing is marred by sententiousness and relentless intellectual name-dropping". Contemporary reviews of her books were in the main very favourable. The Critical Review, edited by Tobias Smollett, met the publication of the Letters from the Duchesse de Crui with high approbation – "the solidity of her remarks might do honour to those of the opposite sex" – and were equally approving of Memoirs of the Marchioness de Louvoi.
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The result was quite unlike anything that had been seen previously, and, it has not been exactly reproduced since, although the essay of Addison and Steele resembles it very closely, especially in the introduction of fancy portraits. La Bruyère's privileged position at Chantilly provided him with a unique vantage point from which he could witness the hypocrisy and corruption of the court of Louis XIV. As a Christian moralist, he aimed at reforming people's manners and ways by publishing records of his observations of aristocratic foibles and follies, which earned him many enemies at the court. In the titles of his work, and in its extreme desultoriness, La Bruyère reminds the reader of Montaigne, but he aimed too much at sententiousness to attempt even the apparent continuity of the great essayist.
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Self-righteousness, also called sanctimoniousness, sententiousness and holier- than-thou attitudes "Holier than thou" originates from the King James Bible, Isaiah 65:5, in which such an attitude is condemned is a feeling or display of (usually smug) moral superiority derived from a sense that one's beliefs, actions, or affiliations are of greater virtue than those of the average person. Self-righteous individuals are often intolerant of the opinions and behaviors of others. The term "self-righteous" is often considered derogatory (see, for example, journalist and essayist James Fallows' description of self- righteousness in regard to Nobel Peace Prize winners)Fallows, James About self-righteousness and Al Gore The Atlantic, Oct 13 2007 particularly because self-righteous individuals are often thought to exhibit hypocrisy due to the belief that humans are imperfect and can therefore never be infallible, an idea similar to that of the Freudian defense mechanism of reaction formation. The connection between self-righteousness and hypocrisy predates Freud's views, however, as evidenced by the 1899 book Good Mrs.
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