Sententious used in a sentence

Sententious in a sentence as an adjective

Compared to the plodding, sententious pace of his contemporaries, Dumas was the veritable Michael Bay of nineteenth century writers.

Have you considered the possibility that "privacy" is mostly a Hacker News moral panic, an obsession of the sententious personality that only really leaks out into the outside world when it can drive eyeballs or pageviews?

The author of this article may have come across this quote independently rather than via Wikipedia, but this sort of thing has happened often enough that I've come to realize writing for Wikipedia has surprisingly large impact.---As an aside, the article is about changing perceptions of old age: from the “sententious piety about old age” current at the time of Southey/Carroll, to their “invisibility” today.