His preachments were a strange mixture of occult mystery, science, or what passed for science, progressive social reform, intellectual skepticism, and a vaulting imagination. ❋ David McCullough (1972)
At the intervals between the "preachments," the young married and unmarried women promenaded round the tents, and their smiling faces formed a striking contrast to the demure countenances of their more experienced sisters, who, according to their age or temperament, descanted on the folly, or condemned the sinfulness of such conduct. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
They also treated every traveler as a possible object of their "preachments," and spared not to "testify" to him of their peculiar beliefs and "leadings." ❋ Unknown (1902)
And as if she were twenty years older than himself, she obeyed that desire in remonstrating and warning and urging, and the young man took all these "preachments" with a pleased submissive patience. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
"preachments," but when Form Four decided to make baby clothes as a ❋ Ethel Hume Bennett (N/A)
"Of course, it had to be a sort of local paper, giving train and station gossip with sage remarks and 'preachments' from the boy's standpoint. ❋ Samuel Francis Aaron (1899)
Adding incitement, presumption, arrogations, inveighments, preachments, etc. to your retorts in order to avoid any more coherent and less presumptuous form of argumentation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And I was nineteen, and sun-warm Hawaiian in spite of my three-quarters haole blood, and I knew nothing save my girlhood splendours at Kilohana and my Honolulu education at the Royal Chief School, and my grey husband at Nahala with his grey preachments and practices of sobriety and thrift, and those two childless uncles of mine, the one with far, cold vision, the other the broken-hearted, for-ever-dreaming lover of a dead princess. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Eliot, but he disdained the 1960s counterculture and its "preachments of personal freedom, extreme experience ... and sexual experimentation." ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's too bad, if not altogether surprising, that Mr. Axelrod didn't make his views on campaigns as an MRI for the soul known to the world when news came of candidate Barack Obama's 20 years contentedly spent imbibing the America-hatred and assorted racist preachments of his mentor, the Rev. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)
What point are you trying to make by throwing these little moral preachments into the discussion? larry birnbaum says: ❋ Unknown (2010)
O'Grady would at once strip off their blood-dyed silks and jewels, they became excited and angry, and read me preachments about the lack of thrift, the drink, and the innate depravity that caused all the misery in society's cellar. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For a while "Green Zone" generates genuine excitement, as well as plenty of provocation — a fatuous surrogate for Ahmed Chalabi, a pervasive scorn for American planning — but then goes off its own reservation into a won't-fly zone of awkward preachments and hapless absurdities. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2010)
Compared with the Obama White House, Mr. Bloomberg is a piker in the preachments and zealotry department. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It's unlikely that the preachments now directed at opponents of the project by Mayor Bloomberg and others will persuade that opposition. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What makes the present case so alarming is that concessions are being made to Holocaust-deniers and anti-Semites, and that this is not a departure from "original intent" Catholicism but rather part of a return to traditional and old-established preachments. ❋ Unknown (2009)
