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The diminishing returns of media outrage sparks even more outlandish sermonizing.

But the show itself is kludgy, combining dated sitcom rhythms with sermonizing.

They passed a street preacher sermonizing to a group of homeless people.

He was baseball's Kurt Warner, from the truncated career right down to the sermonizing.

When Wells wasn't sermonizing, he was shooting video, a sacrament no one dared interrupt.

That's why there is no gastro-sermonizing at Locol, no talk of farms or varieties.

And her stage patter has always been its own entertainment, part stand-up comedy, part populist sermonizing.

By rights, the nasty dazzle of Keaton's performance should undercut this sermonizing pomp, but that's not what happens.

Their sermonizing will soon give way to a real conversation, in which they'll listen as much as they'll talk.

Despite only being there for a "good time," Kanye was still sermonizing, just in a different way than usual.

A little over a year ago, Jim Heckman was sermonizing about his plan to save the publishing industry from Facebook.

Thompson is probably responsible for some of the snappier lines (that's a reassuring fantasy, at least) and perhaps the sermonizing, too.

"We're either getting too involved in their affairs and sermonizing them, or we're doing a shift to Asia and abandoning them."

A sermonizing current runs through his writings—an Episcopalian churchgoer throughout his life, he claimed to have wanted to become a priest.

In the winter of 2016, The Big Short—a sermonizing, big-budget Hollywood comedy about reckless bankers—was nominated for Best Picture.

AARP and other groups are always sermonizing that retirees should stay active and use the valuable skills they honed in the workplace.

Does the modern-day Zune owner feel like a gadget-toting John the Baptist in a desert of Apple products, vaping and sermonizing on Radiohead?

A little over a year ago, Jim Heckman was sermonizing from a mountaintop in Canada about his plan to save the publishing industry from Facebook.

There's the annual freakout about middling players being "overpaid," and not-quite-accurate sermonizing about how championship teams are build through the draft, and not free agency.

As Mr. Smith led the jam at that same club on Sunday, joking easily but also sermonizing, he invoked Brown amid a litany of dead tap dancers.

I'm standing on the shoulders of a long history of people who have used satire as social commentary in a way that's not sermonizing … It's okay to laugh.

Often sermonizing as if to crowds gathered for community events or funerals, she represents an older black generation that has abandoned the younger while profiting from its tragedy.

The aforementioned Archie credits Geraldine Grundy as his "first love;" a fact that leads to a lot of sermonizing from his righteous adult neighbor Alice Cooper, played by Mädchen Amick.

It was also in 1943 that he was invited to take over "Songs in the Night," a Sunday hour of sermonizing and gospel singing broadcast by a Chicago radio station.

It's important to remember the babies' dad, Father Blackwood (Richard Coyle), ends part 1 sermonizing that Judas' birth is proof of Satan's favor for the Church Of Night's most misogynistic tendencies.

The New Day debuted in the ring that November in bright blue gear, backed by a gospel choir, all smiles and newly obsessed with clapping, sermonizing about positivity at every turn.

In case we missed a point that has been sharply present from the beginning, we are treated to one other sermonizing time-travel excursion, which is so batty it's kind of fun.

In Algeria, Islamists worked the streets under the regime's tolerant eye, distributing leaflets denouncing the day as unholy, discouraging customers in pastry shops from buying Yule logs and cakes, and sermonizing in mosques.

Those weaknesses included an intellectual superficiality and a passion for political declamation — "magpie sermonizing," as Spitz calls it — that often rendered him boring to others, particularly his first wife, the actress Jane Wyman.

The Saddle River Reformed Church, better known as the Old Stone Church, whose current structure was completed in 1819, was the last church in New Jersey to have a minister sermonizing in Dutch.

If good soul music is like good barbecue — slow cooked, falls off the bone — by the 1980s, she'd become a pit master, yelping and barking and wailing, but also talking in songs, sermonizing.

One of his first breakout singles, 2004's "Jesus Walks," found West wrestling with his own faith, sermonizing on politics, rap, and media (it peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100).

They're not interested in the dumb, easy stuff movies give you — the likable, relatable characters, the sermonizing and moralizing; they're too busy deploying color and noise, pushing the form, testing their (and our) limits.

One outspoken Hasidic advocate, Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, set up a phone line where people can call in to hear recordings of him sermonizing about the issue in colorful Yiddish, and leave their own messages.

Metaxas' relentless hyping of the world-shaking significance of Luther and of each and every aspect of his Reformation is often closer to sermonizing than to the dispassionate tone one would expect from a historian.

The sticky, sermonizing side of Mr. Fierstein — evident in parts of his book for "La Cage" and even in his breakthrough play, "Torch Song Trilogy" — casts its holy glow, and it is not a flattering light.

Whereas the foundation of Sanders's objections were at least based on real issues, even though many were by no means new to this cycle, Donald Trump's sermonizing about rigging is constructed of wild conspiracy and conjecture.

And though writers like David Gilmour and Craig Raine have argued that Kipling's politics were much more complicated than we give him credit for, a lot of his sermonizing verse is still a trial to read.

In doing so, it mostly sidesteps the didacticism and sermonizing implied by its charged premise — with the exception of the first episode, which engages with that assumption before the show blows it to pieces in subsequent entries.

Although Forest Hills Drive, 4 Your Eyez Only, and KOD brought the rapper great success, his sermonizing messages and lyrics actively differentiating himself from this generation's "mumble rappers" has made him one of rap's most polarizing figures.

The script has its problems, and so does the staging — repetition, sermonizing, a blurriness that had women at intermission trying to explain the two timelines to each other as they washed their hands at the restroom sink.

But also because the constant sermonizing about how we can all grow up to be who we want to be -- the rhetoric of Democratic conventions and Sesame Street are often indistinguishable -- makes up for the lack of unity over economics.

Some critics said that the books, with potboiler plots, characters in conflict and plenty of violence, elevated the sermonizing of old-fashioned Christian fiction into the realms of modern page-turning thrillers by John Grisham, Tom Clancy or Stephen King.

"One thing the right wing has done pretty effectively in the last few years is, they've managed to frame the discussion as a kind of puritan, moralistic, sermonizing left versus a kind of edgy, rebellious, punk-rock right," says 30-year-old Wynn.

But Wahhabism is also, of course, one of the matrices of global jihadism today: an ideological and financial source of the Islamists' power and their constellation of fundamentalist mosques, television networks dedicated to sermonizing, and various political parties throughout the Muslim world.

"Hell hath no fury," reads a tagline on a poster for "Acrimony," and at first glance, the latest sermonizing melodrama from Tyler Perry appears to be the story of how a scorned woman worked up the courage to leave her exploitative, untrustworthy husband.

The epistolary form, it becomes evident, plays to Richardson's strengths and minimizes his weaknesses: writing from the perspectives of his best-realized and most complex characters, and especially writing "to the moment," filters his didactic intentions, preventing him from sermonizing in his own voice.

In "Come Sunday," now on Netflix, Chiwetel Ejiofor gives an electrifying performance as Mr. Pearson, mining his crisis of faith and advocating a "Gospel of Inclusion" — even if the sermonizing at the heart of Joshua Marston's drama fails to raise the rafters with hallelujahs.

All this desperate sermonizing, as if God is sitting on his golden throne in the clouds looking down at His errant creation with all man's problems and for some reason is rooting for Cruz to win the Republican nomination for president of the United States of America.

In 2000, the British Journal of Psychiatry reported on about twelve hundred cases, during the previous decade, of "Jerusalem syndrome," in which ordinary tourists were seized by convictions of a sacred mission and made public nuisances of themselves, often by sermonizing at holy sites while clad in hotel sheets.

In reality, O.J. Simpson's attorney Johnnie Cochran was many things at once, wrapped up in one immaculately tailored package: a smooth-talking litigator, crusading redeemer of racial injustice, fiery orator sermonizing to juries, master media manipulator, and down-and-dirty legal brawler who'd stop at next to nothing in service of his client.

That book recounted his years of service as the pastor of Christ Our King, a long panorama of births, deaths, ceremonies, sermonizing and counseling that seemed somehow to be embodied in a crowd of children that suddenly appeared at his living room window, trick-or-treating on his last Halloween night as he retired from the ministry in 21957.

I have often noticed that people go in for the sermonizing kind of driving when they are in the vicinity of their own house, particularly if that house is troubled by traffic problems: It might be said that they have become disempowered to the degree that their individual example is the only recourse left to them.

A wild, wealthy woman (Joy) is brought to heel by a sermonizing district attorney after she accidentally hits and kills a motorcycle cop.

Young readers, however, often turn away from this type of poetry because they dislike such sermonizing tones.Stein, Kevin. Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2010: 198.

He does not respond to the idea at first. The conversation shows a superficial understanding of faith, and the friends make many comical errors about the church. The scene shifts to the Jesuit church in Gardiner Street where all are listening to a priest’s shallow, businesslike sermonizing.

Chalilakath’s reformation did not confined to sermonizing but he attempted to strengthen the Islam by his works simultaneously. He composed various books for various purposes like stimulatory texts for students of his institution and other prominent works for eradicate renovated scholars. Lot of thought provoking texts is derived from his pen.

Angelou read through the Bible twice as a young child, and memorized many passages from it.Hagen, p. 19. African-American spirituality, as represented by Angelou's grandmother, has influenced all of Angelou's writings, in the activities of the church community she first experiences in Stamps, in the sermonizing, and in scripture.Hagen, p. 63.

Hagen also characterize Caged Bird as a "blues genre autobiography"Hagen, p. 60. because it uses elements of blues music. These elements include the act of testimony when speaking of one's life and struggles, ironic understatement, and the use of natural metaphors, rhythms, and intonations. Hagen also sees elements of African American sermonizing in Caged Bird.

Keenan is promoted despite disobeying a direct order from his superiors. They explain that their initial decision to kill the members of the congregation was personal and that they are satisfied with incarcerating the congregation without trials, upsetting Keenan. Cooper is seen pacing around his cell singing and sermonizing until another prisoner tells him to shut up.

"Into Your Veins" was written in response to criticism regarding Five Iron Frenzy's decision to stop playing worship songs and sermonizing onstage, saying that a band and their songs are not a valid substitution for a relationship with God, as well as citing the inherent dishonesty of attempting to do such with two openly atheist members.

This sermonizing summary of the preceding five books begins with a reinterpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a statue (Daniel 2:31-44) comprising gold, brass, iron and clay segments. In Chapter 2 Gower associates the iron of the statue with misers. A rich man who lacks charity is condemned. The Chapter 3 associates clay with lechery.

"Two tales of Canadian women". Toronto Star, March 5, 1999. The film centers on a group of women in Montreal who meet once a week at a weight loss clinic."From coarse comedy to subliminal drama: Nowhere else in cinema has the subject of a woman's obesity been as well dramatized as it is here - and without any politically correct sermonizing".

Namrata Joshi of The Hindu writes that "though the film is about loss of memory it's structured and built around a series of recollections" and mentions that the film builds awareness about Alzheimer's disease but does not "slip into sermonizing, it remains sensitive not sentimental". Mihir Bhanage of The Times of India writes that the "splendid narration and direction coupled with excellent performances are high point of this film".

The tradition of conducting open and sustained debate to clarify matters of fundamental Buddhist principles has deep-seated roots in Tibet, China, and Korea. This tradition was also quite pronounced in Japan. In addition to formalized religious debates, the Kamakura period was marked by flourishing and competitive oral religious discourse. Temples began to compete for the patronage of the wealthy and powerful through oratorical sermonizing and temple lecturers (kōshi) faced pressure to attract crowds.

Humpday received positive reviews from critics. It has an approval rating of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 136 reviews, and an average rating of 6.7 out of 10. The website's critical consensus states, "Observant and insightful, this indie comedy takes a different tack on the "bromance" but still makes a point without sermonizing." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

In 1923, Malevich was appointed director of Petrograd State Institute of Artistic Culture, which was forced to close in 1926 after a Communist party newspaper called it "a government-supported monastery" rife with "counterrevolutionary sermonizing and artistic debauchery." The Soviet state was by then heavily promoting an idealized, propagandistic style of art called Socialist Realism—a style Malevich had spent his entire career repudiating. Nevertheless, he swam with the current, and was quietly tolerated by the Communists.

Jack Thomas Chick (April 13, 1924 – October 23, 2016) was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian "Chick tracts". He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays. Many of Chick's views were controversial, as he accused Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, and many other groups of murder and conspiracies. His comics have been described by Robert Ito, in Los Angeles magazine, as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing".

The written biographies of the Christian missionaries to the Netherlands, sermonizing against pre-Christian beliefs, are coincidentally some of the earliest written accounts of the myths that existed in the region. The missionary texts written by the incoming Christian missionaries in the 7th century and 8th century recorded details of the pre-Christian myths of the native culture, although the missionaries showed religious hostility to them as pagan beliefs. The main missionaries of the Netherlands were Willibrord, Bonifatius and Saint Eligius.

Aidan tells Grace he dreamed the gas heater malfunctioned and they all suffocated, and expresses fear that they may be in the afterlife. Over the next several days, Gracesuccumbing to anxiety, medication withdrawal, hunger, and coldbegins sleepwalking, and is tormented by disturbing visions and dreams, including the recurrent voice of her father sermonizing. She attempts to walk to the nearest town, discovering a cross-shaped cabin where she sees her father beckoning to her. She eventually travels in a circle, taking her back to the lodge.

He was chosen to portray legendary lawman Wyatt Earp on the ABC Western series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, which debuted in 1955. To help develop his character, O'Brian bought Stuart N. Lake's book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. He also developed a relationship with Lake, who was a consultant on the show for the first two years. The series, alongside Gunsmoke and Cheyenne, which debuted the same year, spearheaded the "adult Western" television genre, with the emphasis on character development rather than moral sermonizing.

Testimony by victims of sexual abuse at two Chabad schools, Yeshiva in Melbourne and Yeshiva in Bondi, and school officials was given at the Commission. Witnesses included Manny Waks and his father. Several Chabad rabbis were found to have been publicly sermonizing that it was religiously forbidden to report child sex abuse to the police. The prohibition against reporting a fellow Jew to the authorities is referred to as Mesirah As of 1 September 2015, four Chabad Rabbis had resigned in relation to the controversy.

In 1440, he was imprisoned as punishment for breaking the ban and his temple destroyed. He continued to preach even during his imprisonment. As the legend goes, during his imprisonment, Nisshin had a pot put over his head to shut him up. It's said not even a scolding hot pot could make Nisshin stop sermonizing. This story became known as the tale of the “pot-wearing saint” or sometimes referred to as “the pot-wearing Nisshin.” In 1441, during the Kakitsu era, there was the Kakitsu uprising.

Alongside his didactic paintings, Kurelek was also continuing with his more conventional ones, in the fall of 1964 twenty paintings to honour his father, and a couple of years later another to honour his mother, though in the latter he could not restrain sermonizing outright in write-ups for the paintings. His lengthy awkward sermons placed Christianity before the hardship of pioneer women. "Mercifully, the texts had very little circulation, and the paintings were praise indeed for the pioneer women who helped to build this country."Morley, Patricia.

Before being admitted into the church, the converts engaged in a Puritan practice of lay sermonizing or prophesying in which they recounted to the congregation the process by which they became convinced of their election. This practice spread to other churches and by 1640 had become a requirement throughout New England. With this new rule, the Puritans believed they had come closer to making the visible church a more accurate reflection of the invisible church. As Calvinists, Congregationalists did not believe the sacraments had any power to produce conversion or determine one's spiritual state.

However, Poskanzer criticized Lewis for what she regarded as scenes of gratuitous violence, which she felt were upsetting to children. Poskanzer also noted Lewis presented his Christian message subtly enough as to avoid boring children with overt sermonizing. Examples include: Philip Pullman's fantasy series, His Dark Materials, is seen as a response to The Chronicles. Pullman is a self- described atheist who wholly rejects the spiritual themes that permeate The Chronicles, yet his series nonetheless addresses many of the same issues and introduces some similar character types, including talking animals.

The Magic Mountain, translated by John E. > Woods. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 358–359. . In Danilo Kiš's novel garden, ashes the protagonist's father Eduard Schaum provokes the suspicions of the local residents and authorities through his mad wandering and sermonizing in the forests: > The story went round, and was preached from the pulpit, that his iron-tipped > cane possessed magical powers, that trees withered like grass whenever he > walked in the Count's forest, that his spit produced poisonous mushrooms > --Ithyphalus impudicus--that grew under the guise of edible, cultivated > varieties.

Michael Hicks, Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions, University of Illinois Press, 2000, p.9 The music on the Seeds 1966 albums The Seeds (GNP Crescendo 2023) and A Web of Sound (GNP Crescendo 2033) have been described as "weird psychotic blues highlighting Sky's demented, vocal sermonizing." A spinoff project, The Sky Saxon Blues Band, recorded one album, A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues, (GNP Crescendo 2040) with members of Muddy Waters' band. At the same time, Saxon continued The Seeds, recording Future (GNP Crescendo 2038) and Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box (GNP Crescendo 2043).

The BSCNC offered to assist the church in healing the rift between the factions. At least some of the former parishioners continued to be disgruntled, and contemplated taking further actions, including hiring an attorney. The dispute focused attention on the limits, if any, on the relationship of sermonizing from the pulpit and the political activities of religious practitioners. An opposing view is that a church, being a voluntary association, has an inherent right to discipline and choose its members incidental to its rights of Freedom of religion and Freedom of association, which should not be interfered with by the state.

Variety called it "pious but plodding."Review of film at Variety Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2012 edition) gave The Big Fisherman 2½ stars out of 4, describing it as a "sprawling religious epic" and deciding that it is "seldom dull, but not terribly inspiring." Steven H. Scheuer's Movies on TV and Videocassette (1993–1994 edition) also settled on 2½ stars out of 4, writing that "the story of Simon called Peter" "unfolds with predictable pageantry and uplifting sermonizing". Assigning 2 stars (out of 5), The Motion Picture Guide (1987 edition) found it to be "long, often-enraging and totally miscast" with "a nonsinging Keel as Saint Peter".

The content had to be morally sound so that women would want to read it too. Indigent men had been poorly served by the newspaper trade but indigent women had been entirely overlooked. In his previous publishing business, Lloyd had seen the vast unmet demand for something good to read among the growing numbers of people who had learnt their letters but found nothing that they could afford except trash or sermonizing. Lloyd’s Weekly, and indeed the News of the World at that time, were a long way from being the purveyors of scandal, crime and sensation for which they have since been falsely condemned.

Ward evangelized the social gospel, sermonizing on matters of economics and poverty and the potential role of the church in the rectification of the structural failings of society. Following the birth of his second son in 1905, Ward took a one-year sabbatical leave during which time he seems to have read the works of Karl Marx for the first time. In the estimation of Ward biographer David Nelson Duke, the introduction to Marxism was not transformative for Ward, but rather "offered labels for and an interpretation of what he knew firsthand" from his life amongst Chicago's working poor. Ward returned to the pulpit in the fall of 1906 reenergized.

Sermonizing spread from within the confines of temples to homes and the streets as wandering mendicants (shidōso, hijiri, or inja) preached to both the educated and illiterate in exchange for alms. In order to teach principles of faith preachers incorporated colorful storytelling, music, vaudeville, and drama—which later evolved into Noh. A predominant topic of debate in Kamakura Buddhism was the concept of rebuking "slander of the Dharma." The Lotus Sutra itself strongly warns about slander of the Dharma. Hōnen, in turn, employed harsh polemics instructing people to “discard” (sha 捨), “close” (hei 閉), “put aside” (kaku 閣), and “abandon” (hō 抛) the Lotus Sutra and other non-Pure Land teachings.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 21% based on 72 reviews, with an average rating of 3.95/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Shack undeniably worthy message is ill-served by a script that confuses spiritual uplift with melodramatic clichés and heavy-handed sermonizing." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave an 85% overall positive score and a 70% "definite recommend".

" Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times commented that "at its best ... The Newsroom has a wit, sophistication and manic energy.... But at its worst, the show chokes on its own sanctimony." Maureen Ryan of The Huffington Post called the preview episodes "a dramatically inert, infuriating mess, one that wastes a fine cast to no demonstrable purpose, unless you consider giving Sorkin yet another platform in which to Set the People Straight is a worthwhile purpose." Times James Poniewozik criticized the show for being "smug" and "intellectually self-serving," with "Aaron Sorkin writing one argument after another for himself to win." Los Angeles Times critic Mary McNamara said the show's drama is "weighted too heavily toward sermonizing diatribes.

His brush is now satirical, and now sentimental, and he is not > infrequently sermonizing, like (the playwright) Gaspare Gozzi. He is > addicted to paint in large dimensions, but still makes the effort in every > part, though minute, to bring life-like rendering; but of this science he is > inclined to abuse, and looking overpowers the details of the things, he > seems a little dry in the design and raw in color. Among his works are An indiscreet scene; A captured peasant; In the sacristy ; and The saltimbanco at the bed of his dying wife. In 1870, he exhibited at the Italian Exposition of Fine arts in Parma: The Saintly murmurs and I preparativi per un ballo in maschera.

Hafiz, the renowned Iranian poet of the eighth/fourteenth century exalted tolerance to the point of saying: "In these two expressions lies peace in this world and the next / With friends, magnanimity; with enemies, tolerance". Hafez knew well that, in a religious society, inviting people to exercise tolerance would fail to have any impact or captivate hearts unless it was accompanied by an insightful theory of human nature and religion. This is why he astutely tried throughout his works to use the language of poetry and allusion to elucidate a theory of this kind and to persuade his audience that his recommendation was not just a case of well-intentioned sermonizing but that magnanimity and tolerance were sound philosophical notions that rested on solid foundations.Soroush essay t.b.v.

This is instantly > understood by "the 18 greediest, the seven most hypocritical and the five > wealthiest families in the country" to whom he goes for financing.... This > should be daft, glorious stuff, and West ought to lurch into life as a > monstrously American folk villain, the match of such folk heroes as Paul > Bunyan and Davy Crockett. If Minnesota's lakes are the hoof-prints of > Bunyan's blue ox, why can't Warren Harding, Al Capone and Joseph McCarthy be > the droppings from Eddie West's cigar? ...They might be, except that Condon > loses his balance and—odd for him—goes off the shallow end. For the first > time in eight novels, he wavers from his delightful obsession that maniacal > rigidity is civilization's main motivating force and therefore the only > human quirk worth a novelist's attention.... Eddie West dies of Condon's > sermonizing.

1180), the thirty-third caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, whose support for Hanbalism allowed Ibn al-Jawzi to effectively become "one of the most influential persons" in Baghdad, due to the caliph's approval of Ibn al- Jawzi's public sermonizing to huge crowds in both pastoral and urban areas throughout Baghdad. In the vast majority of the public sermons delivered during al-Mustadi's reign, Ibn al-Jawzi often presented a stanch defense of the prophet Muhammad's example, and vigorously criticized all those whom he considered to be schismatics in the faith. At the same time, Ibn al-Jawzi's reputation as a scholar continued to grow due to the substantial role he played in managing many of the most important universities in the area, as well as on account of the sheer number of works he wrote during this period. As regards the latter point, it is important to note that part of Ibn al- Jawzi's legacy rests on his reputation for having been "one of the most prolific writers" of all time, with later scholars like Ibn Taymīyyah (d.

The diminishing returns of media outrage sparks even more outlandish sermonizing. from The Hill
But the show itself is kludgy, combining dated sitcom rhythms with sermonizing. from The New York Times
They passed a street preacher sermonizing to a group of homeless people. from The New York Times
He was baseball's Kurt Warner, from the truncated career right down to the sermonizing. from Vice
When Wells wasn't sermonizing, he was shooting video, a sacrament no one dared interrupt. from Wired
That's why there is no gastro-sermonizing at Locol, no talk of farms or varieties. from The New York Times
And her stage patter has always been its own entertainment, part stand-up comedy, part populist sermonizing. from The New York Times
By rights, the nasty dazzle of Keaton's performance should undercut this sermonizing pomp, but that's not what happens. from New Yorker
Their sermonizing will soon give way to a real conversation, in which they'll listen as much as they'll talk. from Refinery 29
Despite only being there for a "good time," Kanye was still sermonizing, just in a different way than usual. from Vice
A little over a year ago, Jim Heckman was sermonizing about his plan to save the publishing industry from Facebook. from Business Insider
Thompson is probably responsible for some of the snappier lines (that's a reassuring fantasy, at least) and perhaps the sermonizing, too. from The New York Times
"We're either getting too involved in their affairs and sermonizing them, or we're doing a shift to Asia and abandoning them." from The New York Times
A sermonizing current runs through his writings—an Episcopalian churchgoer throughout his life, he claimed to have wanted to become a priest. from Hyperallergic
In the winter of 2016, The Big Short—a sermonizing, big-budget Hollywood comedy about reckless bankers—was nominated for Best Picture. from New Republic
AARP and other groups are always sermonizing that retirees should stay active and use the valuable skills they honed in the workplace. from The New York Times
Does the modern-day Zune owner feel like a gadget-toting John the Baptist in a desert of Apple products, vaping and sermonizing on Radiohead? from Vice
A little over a year ago, Jim Heckman was sermonizing from a mountaintop in Canada about his plan to save the publishing industry from Facebook. from Business Insider
There's the annual freakout about middling players being "overpaid," and not-quite-accurate sermonizing about how championship teams are build through the draft, and not free agency. from Vice
As Mr. Smith led the jam at that same club on Sunday, joking easily but also sermonizing, he invoked Brown amid a litany of dead tap dancers. from The New York Times
I'm standing on the shoulders of a long history of people who have used satire as social commentary in a way that's not sermonizing … It's okay to laugh. from Refinery 29
Often sermonizing as if to crowds gathered for community events or funerals, she represents an older black generation that has abandoned the younger while profiting from its tragedy. from The New York Times
The aforementioned Archie credits Geraldine Grundy as his "first love;" a fact that leads to a lot of sermonizing from his righteous adult neighbor Alice Cooper, played by Mädchen Amick. from Refinery 29
It was also in 1943 that he was invited to take over "Songs in the Night," a Sunday hour of sermonizing and gospel singing broadcast by a Chicago radio station. from The New York Times
It's important to remember the babies' dad, Father Blackwood (Richard Coyle), ends part 1 sermonizing that Judas' birth is proof of Satan's favor for the Church Of Night's most misogynistic tendencies. from Refinery 29
The New Day debuted in the ring that November in bright blue gear, backed by a gospel choir, all smiles and newly obsessed with clapping, sermonizing about positivity at every turn. from Vice
In case we missed a point that has been sharply present from the beginning, we are treated to one other sermonizing time-travel excursion, which is so batty it's kind of fun. from The New York Times
In Algeria, Islamists worked the streets under the regime's tolerant eye, distributing leaflets denouncing the day as unholy, discouraging customers in pastry shops from buying Yule logs and cakes, and sermonizing in mosques. from The New York Times
Those weaknesses included an intellectual superficiality and a passion for political declamation — "magpie sermonizing," as Spitz calls it — that often rendered him boring to others, particularly his first wife, the actress Jane Wyman. from The New York Times
The Saddle River Reformed Church, better known as the Old Stone Church, whose current structure was completed in 1819, was the last church in New Jersey to have a minister sermonizing in Dutch. from The New York Times
If good soul music is like good barbecue — slow cooked, falls off the bone — by the 1980s, she'd become a pit master, yelping and barking and wailing, but also talking in songs, sermonizing. from The New York Times
One of his first breakout singles, 2004's "Jesus Walks," found West wrestling with his own faith, sermonizing on politics, rap, and media (it peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100). from Wired
They're not interested in the dumb, easy stuff movies give you — the likable, relatable characters, the sermonizing and moralizing; they're too busy deploying color and noise, pushing the form, testing their (and our) limits. from The New York Times
One outspoken Hasidic advocate, Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, set up a phone line where people can call in to hear recordings of him sermonizing about the issue in colorful Yiddish, and leave their own messages. from Vice
Metaxas' relentless hyping of the world-shaking significance of Luther and of each and every aspect of his Reformation is often closer to sermonizing than to the dispassionate tone one would expect from a historian. from The New York Times
The sticky, sermonizing side of Mr. Fierstein — evident in parts of his book for "La Cage" and even in his breakthrough play, "Torch Song Trilogy" — casts its holy glow, and it is not a flattering light. from The New York Times
Whereas the foundation of Sanders's objections were at least based on real issues, even though many were by no means new to this cycle, Donald Trump's sermonizing about rigging is constructed of wild conspiracy and conjecture. from The New York Times
And though writers like David Gilmour and Craig Raine have argued that Kipling's politics were much more complicated than we give him credit for, a lot of his sermonizing verse is still a trial to read. from The New York Times
In doing so, it mostly sidesteps the didacticism and sermonizing implied by its charged premise — with the exception of the first episode, which engages with that assumption before the show blows it to pieces in subsequent entries. from Vox
Although Forest Hills Drive, 4 Your Eyez Only, and KOD brought the rapper great success, his sermonizing messages and lyrics actively differentiating himself from this generation's "mumble rappers" has made him one of rap's most polarizing figures. from Vice
The script has its problems, and so does the staging — repetition, sermonizing, a blurriness that had women at intermission trying to explain the two timelines to each other as they washed their hands at the restroom sink. from The New York Times
But also because the constant sermonizing about how we can all grow up to be who we want to be -- the rhetoric of Democratic conventions and Sesame Street are often indistinguishable -- makes up for the lack of unity over economics. from CNN
Some critics said that the books, with potboiler plots, characters in conflict and plenty of violence, elevated the sermonizing of old-fashioned Christian fiction into the realms of modern page-turning thrillers by John Grisham, Tom Clancy or Stephen King. from The New York Times
"One thing the right wing has done pretty effectively in the last few years is, they've managed to frame the discussion as a kind of puritan, moralistic, sermonizing left versus a kind of edgy, rebellious, punk-rock right," says 30-year-old Wynn. from Vice News
But Wahhabism is also, of course, one of the matrices of global jihadism today: an ideological and financial source of the Islamists' power and their constellation of fundamentalist mosques, television networks dedicated to sermonizing, and various political parties throughout the Muslim world. from The New York Times
"Hell hath no fury," reads a tagline on a poster for "Acrimony," and at first glance, the latest sermonizing melodrama from Tyler Perry appears to be the story of how a scorned woman worked up the courage to leave her exploitative, untrustworthy husband. from The New York Times
The epistolary form, it becomes evident, plays to Richardson's strengths and minimizes his weaknesses: writing from the perspectives of his best-realized and most complex characters, and especially writing "to the moment," filters his didactic intentions, preventing him from sermonizing in his own voice. from New Yorker
In "Come Sunday," now on Netflix, Chiwetel Ejiofor gives an electrifying performance as Mr. Pearson, mining his crisis of faith and advocating a "Gospel of Inclusion" — even if the sermonizing at the heart of Joshua Marston's drama fails to raise the rafters with hallelujahs. from The New York Times
All this desperate sermonizing, as if God is sitting on his golden throne in the clouds looking down at His errant creation with all man's problems and for some reason is rooting for Cruz to win the Republican nomination for president of the United States of America. from The Hill
In 2000, the British Journal of Psychiatry reported on about twelve hundred cases, during the previous decade, of "Jerusalem syndrome," in which ordinary tourists were seized by convictions of a sacred mission and made public nuisances of themselves, often by sermonizing at holy sites while clad in hotel sheets. from New Yorker
In reality, O.J. Simpson's attorney Johnnie Cochran was many things at once, wrapped up in one immaculately tailored package: a smooth-talking litigator, crusading redeemer of racial injustice, fiery orator sermonizing to juries, master media manipulator, and down-and-dirty legal brawler who'd stop at next to nothing in service of his client. from Mashable
That book recounted his years of service as the pastor of Christ Our King, a long panorama of births, deaths, ceremonies, sermonizing and counseling that seemed somehow to be embodied in a crowd of children that suddenly appeared at his living room window, trick-or-treating on his last Halloween night as he retired from the ministry in 21957. from The New York Times
I have often noticed that people go in for the sermonizing kind of driving when they are in the vicinity of their own house, particularly if that house is troubled by traffic problems: It might be said that they have become disempowered to the degree that their individual example is the only recourse left to them. from The New York Times
A wild, wealthy woman (Joy) is brought to heel by a sermonizing district attorney after she accidentally hits and kills a motorcycle cop.
Young readers, however, often turn away from this type of poetry because they dislike such sermonizing tones.Stein, Kevin. Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2010: 198.
He does not respond to the idea at first. The conversation shows a superficial understanding of faith, and the friends make many comical errors about the church. The scene shifts to the Jesuit church in Gardiner Street where all are listening to a priest’s shallow, businesslike sermonizing.
Chalilakath’s reformation did not confined to sermonizing but he attempted to strengthen the Islam by his works simultaneously. He composed various books for various purposes like stimulatory texts for students of his institution and other prominent works for eradicate renovated scholars. Lot of thought provoking texts is derived from his pen.
Angelou read through the Bible twice as a young child, and memorized many passages from it.Hagen, p. 19. African-American spirituality, as represented by Angelou's grandmother, has influenced all of Angelou's writings, in the activities of the church community she first experiences in Stamps, in the sermonizing, and in scripture.Hagen, p. 63.
Hagen also characterize Caged Bird as a "blues genre autobiography"Hagen, p. 60. because it uses elements of blues music. These elements include the act of testimony when speaking of one's life and struggles, ironic understatement, and the use of natural metaphors, rhythms, and intonations. Hagen also sees elements of African American sermonizing in Caged Bird.
Keenan is promoted despite disobeying a direct order from his superiors. They explain that their initial decision to kill the members of the congregation was personal and that they are satisfied with incarcerating the congregation without trials, upsetting Keenan. Cooper is seen pacing around his cell singing and sermonizing until another prisoner tells him to shut up.
"Into Your Veins" was written in response to criticism regarding Five Iron Frenzy's decision to stop playing worship songs and sermonizing onstage, saying that a band and their songs are not a valid substitution for a relationship with God, as well as citing the inherent dishonesty of attempting to do such with two openly atheist members.
This sermonizing summary of the preceding five books begins with a reinterpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a statue (Daniel 2:31-44) comprising gold, brass, iron and clay segments. In Chapter 2 Gower associates the iron of the statue with misers. A rich man who lacks charity is condemned. The Chapter 3 associates clay with lechery.
"Two tales of Canadian women". Toronto Star, March 5, 1999. The film centers on a group of women in Montreal who meet once a week at a weight loss clinic."From coarse comedy to subliminal drama: Nowhere else in cinema has the subject of a woman's obesity been as well dramatized as it is here - and without any politically correct sermonizing".
Namrata Joshi of The Hindu writes that "though the film is about loss of memory it's structured and built around a series of recollections" and mentions that the film builds awareness about Alzheimer's disease but does not "slip into sermonizing, it remains sensitive not sentimental". Mihir Bhanage of The Times of India writes that the "splendid narration and direction coupled with excellent performances are high point of this film".
The tradition of conducting open and sustained debate to clarify matters of fundamental Buddhist principles has deep-seated roots in Tibet, China, and Korea. This tradition was also quite pronounced in Japan. In addition to formalized religious debates, the Kamakura period was marked by flourishing and competitive oral religious discourse. Temples began to compete for the patronage of the wealthy and powerful through oratorical sermonizing and temple lecturers (kōshi) faced pressure to attract crowds.
Humpday received positive reviews from critics. It has an approval rating of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 136 reviews, and an average rating of 6.7 out of 10. The website's critical consensus states, "Observant and insightful, this indie comedy takes a different tack on the "bromance" but still makes a point without sermonizing." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
In 1923, Malevich was appointed director of Petrograd State Institute of Artistic Culture, which was forced to close in 1926 after a Communist party newspaper called it "a government-supported monastery" rife with "counterrevolutionary sermonizing and artistic debauchery." The Soviet state was by then heavily promoting an idealized, propagandistic style of art called Socialist Realism—a style Malevich had spent his entire career repudiating. Nevertheless, he swam with the current, and was quietly tolerated by the Communists.
Jack Thomas Chick (April 13, 1924 – October 23, 2016) was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian "Chick tracts". He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays. Many of Chick's views were controversial, as he accused Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, and many other groups of murder and conspiracies. His comics have been described by Robert Ito, in Los Angeles magazine, as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing".
The written biographies of the Christian missionaries to the Netherlands, sermonizing against pre-Christian beliefs, are coincidentally some of the earliest written accounts of the myths that existed in the region. The missionary texts written by the incoming Christian missionaries in the 7th century and 8th century recorded details of the pre-Christian myths of the native culture, although the missionaries showed religious hostility to them as pagan beliefs. The main missionaries of the Netherlands were Willibrord, Bonifatius and Saint Eligius.
Aidan tells Grace he dreamed the gas heater malfunctioned and they all suffocated, and expresses fear that they may be in the afterlife. Over the next several days, Gracesuccumbing to anxiety, medication withdrawal, hunger, and coldbegins sleepwalking, and is tormented by disturbing visions and dreams, including the recurrent voice of her father sermonizing. She attempts to walk to the nearest town, discovering a cross-shaped cabin where she sees her father beckoning to her. She eventually travels in a circle, taking her back to the lodge.
He was chosen to portray legendary lawman Wyatt Earp on the ABC Western series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, which debuted in 1955. To help develop his character, O'Brian bought Stuart N. Lake's book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. He also developed a relationship with Lake, who was a consultant on the show for the first two years. The series, alongside Gunsmoke and Cheyenne, which debuted the same year, spearheaded the "adult Western" television genre, with the emphasis on character development rather than moral sermonizing.
Testimony by victims of sexual abuse at two Chabad schools, Yeshiva in Melbourne and Yeshiva in Bondi, and school officials was given at the Commission. Witnesses included Manny Waks and his father. Several Chabad rabbis were found to have been publicly sermonizing that it was religiously forbidden to report child sex abuse to the police. The prohibition against reporting a fellow Jew to the authorities is referred to as Mesirah As of 1 September 2015, four Chabad Rabbis had resigned in relation to the controversy.
In 1440, he was imprisoned as punishment for breaking the ban and his temple destroyed. He continued to preach even during his imprisonment. As the legend goes, during his imprisonment, Nisshin had a pot put over his head to shut him up. It's said not even a scolding hot pot could make Nisshin stop sermonizing. This story became known as the tale of the “pot-wearing saint” or sometimes referred to as “the pot-wearing Nisshin.” In 1441, during the Kakitsu era, there was the Kakitsu uprising.
Alongside his didactic paintings, Kurelek was also continuing with his more conventional ones, in the fall of 1964 twenty paintings to honour his father, and a couple of years later another to honour his mother, though in the latter he could not restrain sermonizing outright in write-ups for the paintings. His lengthy awkward sermons placed Christianity before the hardship of pioneer women. "Mercifully, the texts had very little circulation, and the paintings were praise indeed for the pioneer women who helped to build this country."Morley, Patricia.
Before being admitted into the church, the converts engaged in a Puritan practice of lay sermonizing or prophesying in which they recounted to the congregation the process by which they became convinced of their election. This practice spread to other churches and by 1640 had become a requirement throughout New England. With this new rule, the Puritans believed they had come closer to making the visible church a more accurate reflection of the invisible church. As Calvinists, Congregationalists did not believe the sacraments had any power to produce conversion or determine one's spiritual state.
However, Poskanzer criticized Lewis for what she regarded as scenes of gratuitous violence, which she felt were upsetting to children. Poskanzer also noted Lewis presented his Christian message subtly enough as to avoid boring children with overt sermonizing. Examples include: Philip Pullman's fantasy series, His Dark Materials, is seen as a response to The Chronicles. Pullman is a self- described atheist who wholly rejects the spiritual themes that permeate The Chronicles, yet his series nonetheless addresses many of the same issues and introduces some similar character types, including talking animals.
The Magic Mountain, translated by John E. > Woods. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 358–359. . In Danilo Kiš's novel garden, ashes the protagonist's father Eduard Schaum provokes the suspicions of the local residents and authorities through his mad wandering and sermonizing in the forests: > The story went round, and was preached from the pulpit, that his iron-tipped > cane possessed magical powers, that trees withered like grass whenever he > walked in the Count's forest, that his spit produced poisonous mushrooms > --Ithyphalus impudicus--that grew under the guise of edible, cultivated > varieties.
Michael Hicks, Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions, University of Illinois Press, 2000, p.9 The music on the Seeds 1966 albums The Seeds (GNP Crescendo 2023) and A Web of Sound (GNP Crescendo 2033) have been described as "weird psychotic blues highlighting Sky's demented, vocal sermonizing." A spinoff project, The Sky Saxon Blues Band, recorded one album, A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues, (GNP Crescendo 2040) with members of Muddy Waters' band. At the same time, Saxon continued The Seeds, recording Future (GNP Crescendo 2038) and Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box (GNP Crescendo 2043).
The BSCNC offered to assist the church in healing the rift between the factions. At least some of the former parishioners continued to be disgruntled, and contemplated taking further actions, including hiring an attorney. The dispute focused attention on the limits, if any, on the relationship of sermonizing from the pulpit and the political activities of religious practitioners. An opposing view is that a church, being a voluntary association, has an inherent right to discipline and choose its members incidental to its rights of Freedom of religion and Freedom of association, which should not be interfered with by the state.
Variety called it "pious but plodding."Review of film at Variety Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2012 edition) gave The Big Fisherman 2½ stars out of 4, describing it as a "sprawling religious epic" and deciding that it is "seldom dull, but not terribly inspiring." Steven H. Scheuer's Movies on TV and Videocassette (1993–1994 edition) also settled on 2½ stars out of 4, writing that "the story of Simon called Peter" "unfolds with predictable pageantry and uplifting sermonizing". Assigning 2 stars (out of 5), The Motion Picture Guide (1987 edition) found it to be "long, often-enraging and totally miscast" with "a nonsinging Keel as Saint Peter".
The content had to be morally sound so that women would want to read it too. Indigent men had been poorly served by the newspaper trade but indigent women had been entirely overlooked. In his previous publishing business, Lloyd had seen the vast unmet demand for something good to read among the growing numbers of people who had learnt their letters but found nothing that they could afford except trash or sermonizing. Lloyd’s Weekly, and indeed the News of the World at that time, were a long way from being the purveyors of scandal, crime and sensation for which they have since been falsely condemned.
Ward evangelized the social gospel, sermonizing on matters of economics and poverty and the potential role of the church in the rectification of the structural failings of society. Following the birth of his second son in 1905, Ward took a one-year sabbatical leave during which time he seems to have read the works of Karl Marx for the first time. In the estimation of Ward biographer David Nelson Duke, the introduction to Marxism was not transformative for Ward, but rather "offered labels for and an interpretation of what he knew firsthand" from his life amongst Chicago's working poor. Ward returned to the pulpit in the fall of 1906 reenergized.
Sermonizing spread from within the confines of temples to homes and the streets as wandering mendicants (shidōso, hijiri, or inja) preached to both the educated and illiterate in exchange for alms. In order to teach principles of faith preachers incorporated colorful storytelling, music, vaudeville, and drama—which later evolved into Noh. A predominant topic of debate in Kamakura Buddhism was the concept of rebuking "slander of the Dharma." The Lotus Sutra itself strongly warns about slander of the Dharma. Hōnen, in turn, employed harsh polemics instructing people to “discard” (sha 捨), “close” (hei 閉), “put aside” (kaku 閣), and “abandon” (hō 抛) the Lotus Sutra and other non-Pure Land teachings.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 21% based on 72 reviews, with an average rating of 3.95/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Shack undeniably worthy message is ill-served by a script that confuses spiritual uplift with melodramatic clichés and heavy-handed sermonizing." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave an 85% overall positive score and a 70% "definite recommend".
" Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times commented that "at its best ... The Newsroom has a wit, sophistication and manic energy.... But at its worst, the show chokes on its own sanctimony." Maureen Ryan of The Huffington Post called the preview episodes "a dramatically inert, infuriating mess, one that wastes a fine cast to no demonstrable purpose, unless you consider giving Sorkin yet another platform in which to Set the People Straight is a worthwhile purpose." Times James Poniewozik criticized the show for being "smug" and "intellectually self-serving," with "Aaron Sorkin writing one argument after another for himself to win." Los Angeles Times critic Mary McNamara said the show's drama is "weighted too heavily toward sermonizing diatribes.
His brush is now satirical, and now sentimental, and he is not > infrequently sermonizing, like (the playwright) Gaspare Gozzi. He is > addicted to paint in large dimensions, but still makes the effort in every > part, though minute, to bring life-like rendering; but of this science he is > inclined to abuse, and looking overpowers the details of the things, he > seems a little dry in the design and raw in color. Among his works are An indiscreet scene; A captured peasant; In the sacristy ; and The saltimbanco at the bed of his dying wife. In 1870, he exhibited at the Italian Exposition of Fine arts in Parma: The Saintly murmurs and I preparativi per un ballo in maschera.
Hafiz, the renowned Iranian poet of the eighth/fourteenth century exalted tolerance to the point of saying: "In these two expressions lies peace in this world and the next / With friends, magnanimity; with enemies, tolerance". Hafez knew well that, in a religious society, inviting people to exercise tolerance would fail to have any impact or captivate hearts unless it was accompanied by an insightful theory of human nature and religion. This is why he astutely tried throughout his works to use the language of poetry and allusion to elucidate a theory of this kind and to persuade his audience that his recommendation was not just a case of well-intentioned sermonizing but that magnanimity and tolerance were sound philosophical notions that rested on solid foundations.Soroush essay t.b.v.
This is instantly > understood by "the 18 greediest, the seven most hypocritical and the five > wealthiest families in the country" to whom he goes for financing.... This > should be daft, glorious stuff, and West ought to lurch into life as a > monstrously American folk villain, the match of such folk heroes as Paul > Bunyan and Davy Crockett. If Minnesota's lakes are the hoof-prints of > Bunyan's blue ox, why can't Warren Harding, Al Capone and Joseph McCarthy be > the droppings from Eddie West's cigar? ...They might be, except that Condon > loses his balance and—odd for him—goes off the shallow end. For the first > time in eight novels, he wavers from his delightful obsession that maniacal > rigidity is civilization's main motivating force and therefore the only > human quirk worth a novelist's attention.... Eddie West dies of Condon's > sermonizing.
1180), the thirty-third caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, whose support for Hanbalism allowed Ibn al-Jawzi to effectively become "one of the most influential persons" in Baghdad, due to the caliph's approval of Ibn al- Jawzi's public sermonizing to huge crowds in both pastoral and urban areas throughout Baghdad. In the vast majority of the public sermons delivered during al-Mustadi's reign, Ibn al-Jawzi often presented a stanch defense of the prophet Muhammad's example, and vigorously criticized all those whom he considered to be schismatics in the faith. At the same time, Ibn al-Jawzi's reputation as a scholar continued to grow due to the substantial role he played in managing many of the most important universities in the area, as well as on account of the sheer number of works he wrote during this period. As regards the latter point, it is important to note that part of Ibn al- Jawzi's legacy rests on his reputation for having been "one of the most prolific writers" of all time, with later scholars like Ibn Taymīyyah (d.