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

Still more comprehensive attempts have been made to collate the products of representative preachers in different Protestant communions, and thus to bring into prominence various types of sermonic literature.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin by Kleiser, Grenville