sermonize
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Johnson said he didn’t mean to sermonize but it’s clear he’s the kind of artist who sees the stage as a pulpit and the arena as a church.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
As with his live-action efforts, Peele never sought to sermonize but only to spark dialogue about important social topics.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
This upcoming Easter Sunday, he intends to sermonize on which one would prevail.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
With a zealous quickening, Brooks begins to sermonize, not about his own soul but the country’s.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
My grandmother was the only white person who ever heard W. D. Fard sermonize, and she understood less than half of what he said.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
“Haha You Clowns” isn’t like the old “Davey and Goliath” or “South Park,” which purposely sermonized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The Rev. Charles Cannon, pastor at St. Hilary’s Episcopal Church, sermonized about the temporariness of the community’s losses.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
“This is a driver for the entire United States economy,” O’Rourke sermonized to a crowd packed into the banquet hall at the Social Club in Edinburg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2018
Catholic priests sermonized against the Molly Maguires, taking instructions from Philadelphia Bishop James Frederick Woods, who excommunicated them.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2018
As for myself, I have sermonized quite enough for a man of my stamp.
From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston
It’s gripping and informative without sermonizing — everything a great documentary should be.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
At times, Christian movies can feel formulaic and forced, sometimes preferring sermonizing to storytelling.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Are viewers craving more carnage and darkness or cable news sermonizing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
In all the military formations, colorful uniforms, singing of hymns and sermonizing, I looked for elements such as that one — the art and drama of this rare royal state funeral and procession.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
But if Sylvia appreciated and sympathized in the matter of my sermonizing, the rest of the family neither approved the sermons nor Sylvia's interest in them.
From The Message by Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew)
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