sermonizing
Example Sentences
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And Hall took his own sermonizing to heart.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
It’s gripping and informative without sermonizing — everything a great documentary should be.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
Flanagan’s mix of Christian and vampiric lore and imagery is clever, though the later episodes are a little heavy on sermonizing and philosophical exposition.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
No need to wait on a sermonizing dispatch from the Great American Lion of Letters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2021
An author may have a great influence for good, but that influence can be obtained, not by deliberate sermonizing, but only by tone of healthy sentiment which insensibly elevates the reader's mind.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Bayard Tuckerman
