sermonize
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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
His family attended weekly Mass to hear McGuire sermonize and took part in his spiritual retreats, events where McGuire began to acquire a cult-like following.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2019
With a zealous quickening, Brooks begins to sermonize, not about his own soul but the country’s.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
In the other room the woman twists the dial, and voices sermonize from the speaker.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“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
By the time he returned, nearly all of the churches that the Porter family had sermonized in along Lakeview Avenue and Union Avenue were rubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
Catholic priests sermonized against the Molly Maguires, taking instructions from Philadelphia Bishop James Frederick Woods, who excommunicated them.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2018
So much have they sermonized in chapter that all are driven away.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Jocelin de Brakelond
And Hall took his own sermonizing to heart.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
But Perkins hops so quickly from one outrageous death to another that his screenplay leaves little room for rumination amid his constant fatalist sermonizing.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025
In other moments, though, modern lingo and mismatched performances make “Manhunt” feel uncomfortably like “Drunk History,” particularly when characters are either crying or sermonizing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
At times, Christian movies can feel formulaic and forced, sometimes preferring sermonizing to storytelling.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
That would not be essential if I were sermonizing.
From How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray
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