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

But unlike “Selma,” her drama about Martin Luther King, Jr., it can seem awkwardly sermonic, relaying its ideas by way of familiar tropes.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2019

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

"Evangelic truth and apostolic order have no better definition and defence in the whole range of sermonic literature, than in these glowing 'Coals from the Altar'"—The Standard of the Cross.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph