Sermonic

King's sermonic thought comes from Jesus' commissioning of the disciples in Matthew 10:16. ❋ Andrew Wilkes (2011)

This variety of perspectives exemplifies the African-American sermonic tradition and is well represented in the capacious anthology "Preaching With Sacred Fire," edited by Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas. ❋ Eric J. Sundquist (2010)

Allow me, if you will, to bring a sermonic close to a political development. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Misconduct usually involves bigger fish than Freedom of the Pulpit; sermonic plagiarism, for instance, has brought down several ministers in the past few years. ❋ Christine Robinson (2009)

Pulpit Initiative to Tease the IRS iMinister was going to run for president this week, announcing her candidacy in a sermon, but this brilliant sermonic ploy was spoiled by a real life civil disobedience campaign. iMinister is annoyed. ❋ Christine Robinson (2008)

And I'm not so sure they're going to buy into the sermonic assertion from the president that he believes in equal rights for all citizens. ❋ Unknown (2006)

National candidates began to adopt an emotional, sermonic style in the 19th century, when evangelical Protestantism was the faith of most Americans. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2008)

All the bring-back-values talk in the world (and we seem to have it) is not worth a thing so long as there is this split-screen moral picture: the sermonic and the real. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He defends the Iraq war, for instance, on sermonic moral grounds without acknowledging its huge, unplanned costs, its worrisome overstretch of America's military forces and its disastrous unintended consequences (the war has made Iran the dominant power in the Persian Gulf). ❋ John C. Hulsman (2007)

But Brother Roger's liturgical insight — his emphasis on simplicity and silence, chant, and scripture that doesn't demand sermonic explication — is central. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Compiling an anthology of sermons requires one to think about the special nature of sermonic eloquence; the boundaries of the genre; the readability of texts for nonspecialists; the inclusion of subgenres (execution sermons, funeral sermons, election sermons, etc.); the range of styles; and the shape of tradition, which in this case means the extraordinary consistency of form for the first two centuries, followed by a dramatic diversification in the last two. ❋ Warner, Michael (1999)

Unsurprisingly, sermonic literature denouncing plays and interludes flourished during the period. ❋ Jessica A. Browner (1994)

Hanif was in perfect control of the languages that mattered: sociological, socialistic, black -- radical, anti -- anti -- anti -- racist, demagogic, oratorical, sermonic: the vocabularies of power. ❋ Rushdie, Salman (1967)

Nothing can be more tiresome than a sermonic amplification of such passages. ❋ Various (N/A)

I have nothing to do; but for the sermonic matter I hold myself responsible. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)

Also, it should be borne in mind that the language, style, and structure, are sermonic. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)

It was the succeeding Sunday night that Margaret, in her father's arms, breathed out the tender tale; I was enjoying my evening smoke (a post-sermonic anodyne), but long before Margaret had finished, my cigar was in ashes and my heart in flame. ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)