preachment

Example Sentences

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It may well be called a preachment for peace.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022

At its considerable best, “Skeleton Crew” practices that preachment; its characters are not just building blocks in a moral tale but a pleasure for actors to perform and thus for audiences to experience.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

It’s not that the religious impulse left him; rather, he transferred it to his writing and to his myriad civic activities, all of which had a strong quality of moral preachment.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

The fact that Wedekind's dialogue is frank to a remarkable degree only makes his preachment more effective: “One does not cure the pest with attar of roses,” as St. Augustine remarked.

From The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood by Wedekind, Frank