He was not what is called a sermonizing preacher; he sought more to produce present effect upon his congregation, than to make a regular siege upon any place, by commencing in a systematic course of doctrinal introduction, preparatory to urging a personal compliance ❋ Eld. John W. Lewis (1852)
This tendency to favor rhetoric over action - what one of his own senior advisors describes as "leading from behind" and Zbigniew Brzezinski describes as 'sermonizing rather than strategizing' - has clearly failed him in creating jobs for the domestic economy and truly reforming the banks and Wall Street. ❋ Jr. Leo Hindery (2011)
Practically, we need Kant's kind of sermonizing; we need to exalt abstract goodness and resist the appeal of immediate and sensuous goods. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)
If I be asked -- as, in fact, I have been asked -- in closing these remarks to say a word of "sermonizing" to this assembly of representative Canadians, as a friend and wellwisher coming from a nation of friends and wellwishers, it would be this ❋ Unknown (1924)
That type of 'sermonizing' will be in violation of federal laws which enforces marriage as being between any two consenting adults, regardless of gender. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The current dominant mode of children's-book evaluation at least nominally disdains "didacticism," by which it means preachiness or sermonizing. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)
Real-world religious elements, particularly sermonizing, tend to have a major impact on the target audience. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I think you should have an opinion, but you can't create propaganda, and I definitely think that Argott created an very well-done film that has its opinion, but presents it without sermonizing or obscuring the facts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Perhaps it's the context of sermonizing in the Manson portions and lecturing academia and investigative procedure in the Dylan -- whatever the case, there was just too much for me to handle. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Stripped of the finger-wagging socialist sermonizing that spoils the last 10 minutes of the play, "The Pitmen Painters" is a "Full Monty" - type commercial comedy about five working-class blokes with inch-thick accents ( "We just want to knaa aboot proper art") who turn out to be smarter, nobler and more talented than Robert Lyon (Ian Kelly), the well-meaning but unconsciously patronizing university man who deigns to introduce them to the joys of painting. ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)
Yet the sermonizing "Secretariat" limps along like a horse with a lame leg. ❋ Josh Fleet (2010)
The first half of that strange era devoted its time exhaustively to erecting tediously "truthful" structures, while the second, discovering one could only go so far contemplating the bare reality of a building's skeleton, decided that there was no truth to begin with, and then spent the rest of its time sermonizing like a Puritan about the subject. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The same left-leaning religious groups that decry capitalism generally eschew sermonizing on sin, personal responsibility, etc. ❋ Jennifer Rubin (2011)
Related Video Tevi Troy on political sermonizing in synagogues. ❋ Tevi Troy (2011)
The reason for its freshness is that Mr. Fugard, though he leaves you in no doubt of the play's political implications, embeds them in poetic symbolism rather than stooping to the kind of explicit sermonizing that kills so many political plays stone dead. ❋ Terry Teachout (2012)
Political sermonizing is a mistake for many reasons. ❋ Tevi Troy (2011)
So President Obama is taking advantage of an existing proclivity toward political sermonizing. ❋ Tevi Troy (2011)
We know trolls by, for example, their tendency to not even acknowledge what their opponents say, and just keep sermonizing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
