sermonizing

Example Sentences

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But Perkins hops so quickly from one outrageous death to another that his screenplay leaves little room for rumination amid his constant fatalist sermonizing.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025

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

“Blood-soaked soil that my great-grandmother fled,” she said at one point, in sermonizing tones.

From New York Times • May 25, 2021

No need to wait on a sermonizing dispatch from the Great American Lion of Letters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2021

Without sermonizing, without logic even, the demon of pessimism, which has its home in an empty stomach, was expelled into spiritual darkness.

From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson