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
Another way to see it is that our visual art has become more essayistic in nature—which is to say: sermonic, assertive, usefully relevant to a polity ever more prone to the bizarre.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2016
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
Not only seldom, but rarely, did anything come into the Holliday homestead that did not afford the head of the family a text for sermonic instruction, if not, indeed, rational discourse.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
