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
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
Hill has a salty beard, smiling eyes and booming voice to sermonize about the suffering he sees so often in the Shenandoah Valley.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 12, 2018
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
“This is a driver for the entire United States economy,” O’Rourke sermonized to a crowd packed into the banquet hall at the Social Club in Edinburg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2018
Toward the end of his address, Pence sermonized more, dwelling on the mass shooting last year at a Southern Baptist church in nearby Sutherland Springs, Tex.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2018
Her religious views had modified since the days long past when she had sermonized so earnestly to George Blood.
From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
It’s gripping and informative without sermonizing — everything a great documentary should be.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
Are viewers craving more carnage and darkness or cable news sermonizing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
“Leaf skillfully engages with larger social issues while steering clear of the kind of sermonizing that too often seeps into similarly themed dramas,” she added.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
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
"Be brief, I've already heard sermonizing enough to-day."
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
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