sermonize
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Johnson said he didn’t mean to sermonize but it’s clear he’s the kind of artist who sees the stage as a pulpit and the arena as a church.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
As with his live-action efforts, Peele never sought to sermonize but only to spark dialogue about important social topics.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
This upcoming Easter Sunday, he intends to sermonize on which one would prevail.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
With a zealous quickening, Brooks begins to sermonize, not about his own soul but the country’s.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
In the other room the woman twists the dial, and voices sermonize from the speaker.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“Haha You Clowns” isn’t like the old “Davey and Goliath” or “South Park,” which purposely sermonized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The Rev. Charles Cannon, pastor at St. Hilary’s Episcopal Church, sermonized about the temporariness of the community’s losses.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
By the time he returned, nearly all of the churches that the Porter family had sermonized in along Lakeview Avenue and Union Avenue were rubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
John — called Preacher because he sermonized chickens — was the odd child out.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
Ministers sermonized about the bread, variously interpreting it as a call to charity, a warning against gluttony, a parable of the evanescence of all earthly things, and a divine joke.
From Bread Overhead by Leiber, Fritz
It’s gripping and informative without sermonizing — everything a great documentary should be.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
At times, Christian movies can feel formulaic and forced, sometimes preferring sermonizing to storytelling.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
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
Sir John seems to have been dearly fond of sermonizing.
From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Benson, Robert Hugh
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