sermonic

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James Baldwin’s soaring, sermonic prose; Toni Morrison’s scriptural authority; William Faulkner’s Genesis-like cosmologies of Southern identity and place: All draw heavily on a Christian-inflected aesthetic.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2023

He brought his remarks home with the sermonic delivery of his dream of social and class harmony transcending racial and ethnic lines in America.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

But unlike “Selma,” her drama about Martin Luther King, Jr., it can seem awkwardly sermonic, relaying its ideas by way of familiar tropes.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2019

His stories were wry but almost sermonic in style, and were often told from the viewpoints of both sexes:

From Washington Post • May 15, 2015

The eternal click-clak, click-clak, click-clak of the clock was the most melodious of music in my ears, and occasionally even put me in mind of the graceful sermonic harangues of Dr. Ollapod.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan