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

Another way to see it is that our visual art has become more essayistic in nature—which is to say: sermonic, assertive, usefully relevant to a polity ever more prone to the bizarre.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2016

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

From one stage of sermonic publication to another the work has gone on, until week by week, and for about twenty-three years, I have had the world for my audience as no man ever had.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)