homiletic

Example Sentences

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It was shepherded by McElroy, whose homiletic interludes urged the audience to reconnect with one another, opening with the line, “After the darkness, there is always the light.”

From New York Times

Livio’s occasional straying into the didactic, not to say homiletic, will be distracting or irritating for some readers.

From Washington Post

Her poems, which are built of unadorned language and accessible imagery, have a pedagogical, almost homiletic quality.

From New York Times

The line is simple, rhythmic, somehow homiletic—there’s a symmetry to it that evokes “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

From The New Yorker

The homiletic resolutions of "Father Knows Best"and "Leave It to Beaver" notwithstanding, family sitcoms have more often than not promoted the oddballs they seem to mock.

From Los Angeles Times