How To Use Sermonise In A Sentence

  • And one of the main reasons for boardroom chicanery is that far too much of the ‘money out’ goes to governments, which may pay lip service to reducing taxes but, like the secular sermonisers of the left, talk a much better game than they play.
  • The Beatles (You know, the group that made Paul McCartney a multi-millionaire, so he can now sermonize about the destruction of coercive monopolies is a threat to “up and coming bands”), had, through most of their career, at most 8 tracks to work with, and it was analog tape. Free and legal MP3s
  • In the months before the Santa Fe talks, Maxwell had crisscrossed the Southwest to sermonize about the threat of an Asiatic invasion. Colossus
  • He even sent a field representative who encouraged local pastors to sermonize about the school choice issue.
  • What I'm trying hard to resist here is an impulse to sermonize against a comeback of the notion, so fashionable in the sixties, that all art is neurotic or psychotic, and that madness is a proof of grace.
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  • But I should think that CNN, MSNBC and ... well, just CNN and MSNBC, really ... would actually like to have the comfort of knowing that their on-air spouters and sermonizers weren't total hypocrites, and would defenestrate hosts who violate basic standards. Lou Dobbs, evil idiot
  • What these beneficiaries of social mobility urged on contentious workers was pious resignation, and in no city did they sermonize more harshly than in Rouen.
  • Though she is careful not to ever pontificate or sermonise, she believes that written works of fiction ought to convey some message.
  • When my father was growing up in the hills of southern Missouri, he would ride his bike into town with his buddies, in the smoky days of Indian Summers, to watch the preachers who crawled in from the backwoods to stand on their rickety boxes and sermonize to the patrons of the town square. Go to Jesus
  • Care had to be taken not to preach or sermonise or abstractly reach the ‘so-called intellectual audience’ alone.
  • The only kink in his plan was that he far preferred to sermonize on what he saw as the sorry state of business leadership.
  • I am a Catholic, and albeit in my adulthood I've come to realize that my religion is not as all-embracing, compassionate, and christian as we sermonize from the pulpit, I can identify with the solace gained from quiet moments of prayer in an empty church. Ted Kennedy called a man of quiet faith
  • I am a Catholic, and albeit in my adulthood I've come to realize that my religion is not as all-embracing, compassionate, and christian as we sermonize from the pulpit, I can identify with the solace gained from quiet moments of prayer in an empty church. Ted Kennedy called a man of quiet faith
  • From the lentisk bushes and the cypress of the north to the shingle sands of Skala in the south, from the underground lakes of Sami in the east to the vertiginous slopes of Petani in the west, Arsenios trudged and sermonised. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • He must inspire, exhort, sermonize, edify, or warn, resort to pulpitry in general.
  • Urge upon your minister, priest, rabbi or bishop that as a moral leader of the community he or she should sermonize and speak out publicly against hate crimes, especially against anti-gay violence.
  • For it was there that Gerard Rukenau, the satiric sermonizer himself, had chosen to make his home. SACRAMENT
  • About 160 people sat elbow to elbow on folding chairs to hear Haggard sermonize about sin, love and forgiveness. Ted Haggard's New Church, St. James, Draws 160 In Colorado Springs
  • This man always sermonizes
  • I can sermonize about immigration policy until I am blue in the face, but nothing can convey how broken our system is like the story of a non-Spanish-speaking, undocumented teenager that was deported to a Spanish-speaking country. Pablo Andreu: DREAM Lives on in Lower East Side
  • Devout young parents, presiding over their growing broods with apparent joy and serenity, preached more eloquently to the community that watched them than the most accomplished sermonizer could do.
  • If the broadsheets were badly written, if the sermonisers and pundits couldn't speak in coherent sentences, if you routinely turned the radio on to hear people not making any sense, it would all be much easier to dismiss.
  • He urges the nervous young priest to sermonize against her.
  • Whenever a young footballer goes off the rails, these ‘survivors’ are always wheeled out to sermonise about the dangers of addiction.
  • In May 1596 he was appointed rector to East Hoathly and the same year sermonized there on the Book of Ruth.
  • I blushed when he sermonized to one of my boyfriends about the vitality and pleasure of true love.
  • Yet although she clearly possesses both a vision of theatre's social role and an interest in the fate of those at the fringes of society, she is no sermoniser.
  • The same piece encouraged a leading Jungian to sermonize in rotund eighteenth-century style on the esoteric, as opposed to the exoteric, meaning of the Sea-God Manannan's Crane Bag. The Crane Bag
  • The last thing I'd ever do is sermonize that "you should have gone home first," which is why this story makes me furious as well as intensely sympathetic. Bad news from the Crüxshadows
  • He frequently sermonizes on the moral failings of others, including other public figures.
  • Nor has it become difficult only for me to explain the relevance of a kirpan or a kara, but also for those who sermonize in the gurudwaras or those who so zealously write in the religious magazines.
  • It wasn't just for me - I knew he'd appreciate not having to listen to Opal sermonize at his expense for a while.
  • ‘Today, our party readies itself to mount the wave of the future,’ he sermonized.
  • Preachers paid for time to sermonize, listeners could call in, some slots were reserved for Christian music.
  • Neither does he sermonise through his characters, a temptation that few directors can resist.
  • He was the son of a Baptist preacher who sermonized about the virtues of the free market.
  • This is not the time, he says, to stir up anti-American sentiments, or sermonise over US foreign policy.
  • More and more of these gentlemen seem to feel impelled to do this, too, even though the truth is that there are not many sermonizers who can carry it off successfully.
  • No wonder they sermonize and embrace.
  • Around 10 p.m. on a recent evening, the rabbi at Denver's Temple Emanuel was asked if he would ever sermonize about Tebow. Tim Tebow: Denver's New Favorite Mensch
  • Millions of Muslims today go to their local mosques and hear their preachers sermonize from the Holy Koran.
  • But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
  • Clearly, therefore, the best way to achieve this is to turn up at their flat at midnight after having been to a party, then proceed to sermonise drunkenly for two hours until they tell you that they have to go to bed.
  • For President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg and their allies like to sermonize about a proposition not in dispute — the legal right of the imam to build on the property he's bought — while imputing the lowest of motives to anyone who disagrees with them. 'Bridge Building' and the WTC Mosque

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