preachment

Example Sentences

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It may well be called a preachment for peace.

From Los Angeles Times

At its considerable best, “Skeleton Crew” practices that preachment; its characters are not just building blocks in a moral tale but a pleasure for actors to perform and thus for audiences to experience.

From New York Times

The preachment follows a mass shooting by a supposedly religious young man bedeviled by sexual temptation but untroubled by killing.

From Salon

Thus began months of earnest “preachment,” and homebound Yanks responded with enthusiasm, much like their counterparts in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s not that the religious impulse left him; rather, he transferred it to his writing and to his myriad civic activities, all of which had a strong quality of moral preachment.

From The New Yorker