sermonizing

Example Sentences

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It’s gripping and informative without sermonizing — everything a great documentary should be.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025

At times, Christian movies can feel formulaic and forced, sometimes preferring sermonizing to storytelling.

From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Are viewers craving more carnage and darkness or cable news sermonizing?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023

In all the military formations, colorful uniforms, singing of hymns and sermonizing, I looked for elements such as that one — the art and drama of this rare royal state funeral and procession.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2022

They greatly relished his didactic, argumentative sermonizing, since theirs was a religion not so much of the sensibilities as of the intellect.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various