sermonizing

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

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023

This week, former NFL player Emmanuel Acho, sermonizing while staring into a Fox Sports 1 camera, even tried speaking directly to Tagovailoa.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022

Flanagan’s mix of Christian and vampiric lore and imagery is clever, though the later episodes are a little heavy on sermonizing and philosophical exposition.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

It is this pedagogic tendency, this sermonizing attitude of Young’s mind, which produces the wearisome monotony of his pauses. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan