These are two thoughtful performances in a carefully understated film that has a number of erudite lines without ever becoming preachy. |
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I'm definitely not a preachy global warmist type, but to say that global warming isn't happening because there's snow outside is stupidity. |
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The narrative would benefit from more structure, especially towards the end, which feels loose and a bit preachy. |
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Every drop of anger, frustration and joy is felt keenly during the film, which never seems to lag or become preachy. |
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The themes of the film are worn on its striped, embroidered sleeve, and often the script gets preachy with its sanctimonious moralizing. |
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It could have become a little new-age preachy, with talk of enzymes and vitamins enhancing your well-being. |
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The result was a preachy didacticism that is more likely to conceal human truth than reveal it. |
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We're just bashing around trying to do something meaningful, but not in a preachy sense. |
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The film's web site is remarkably preachy, posturing the movie as a landmark in the battle against sexual harassment. |
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To be honest, it's usually too preachy, straining to get across a point, like using a chainsaw to cut a string on your jacket. |
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They almost carry the film through themselves, rising above the overly preachy, unsubtle material. |
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The allegory transforms what would be a tired, preachy historical retread into a readable narrative. |
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I'm amazed at how preachy and judgemental everyone is being in this thread. |
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It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard. |
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But amid this entertainment, and without being too preachy, the group showed us that dreams are not what they're cracked up to be. |
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I think that makes my music less preachy and it also allows me to just talk about the regular things I go through. |
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I rewrote it several years ago and when I went back to it, it had this really didactic preachy ending and it was just awful. |
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His need to impart lessons about baseball and life tends to make him sound, at times, preachy and sanctimonious. |
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Forgive me sounding preachy but the character in our neighbourhoods, heritage and iconic landscape will be utterly lost. |
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I know you probably hear this a lot, and I don't want to sound preachy, but just try it out once in awhile, and see if it makes a change. |
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Kisor certainly isn't preachy or moralizing, but his characters do wrestle with complex social issues. |
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And it's not a preachy, political attack on that culture, which was another common reading. |
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Unfortunately, the ending comes far too abruptly and consequently feels kind of preachy and not at all in tune with the feeling of the rest of the play. |
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Then it gets preachy, and even boring in the name of realism. |
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I object to all preachy busybodies, including young coots like Roberts. |
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They aren't preachy, and seem to be sensible and hard working. |
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I hope I don't sound too preachy, but that letter got me all riled up. |
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There were some lovely historical tales and some very preachy tracts. |
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Most critically, it has no moral centre, just a preachy moral lesson. |
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Strive to be convincing, confident, and knowledgeable, but never preachy, superior, or overbearing. |
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Pride engages the audience not in party politics or preachy agendas, but in much bigger concepts of generosity and compassion. |
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Children Will Listen, from Into the Woods, is a clear instruction to every parent but isn't in the least preachy. |
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Efforts to portray it quickly become too preachy, too scientific, too shaming. |
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And, despite Mr Blair's preachy optimism, he may find that there is resistance to some of his practical ideas. |
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Effectiveness of a serious vs. light tone depends on the intended audience, but an overly preachy delivery is almost universally ineffective. |
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We're still fighting the same cause, you know, but we're not being preachy about things these days and I think that makes it better. |
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The camper staff basically work in the street and neither their attitudes nor their words seem paternalistic or preachy. |
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His personal narratives in particular are neither romantic nor martyr like, nor are they overly frank or overly preachy. |
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And the doctor must be familiar with the issues that are important to young people and know how to draw out information and dispense advice without sounding preachy. |
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But, unlike another famously athletic and God-fearing Tim, Howard is far less preachy. |
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The religious themes are cleverly handled so as not to appear preachy or judgemental, while the coming-of-age material is frank but never voyeuristic. |
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This is not an easy assignment as one of the challenges is to avoid being preachy, patronizing or offering advice that is not suitable to the Mozambican situation. |
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The preachy extension agent, the ivory-tower researcher, the status-conscious bureaucrat, the poorly organized library: all eliminate the possibility that users will be able to get the information they need. |
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There were a lot of characters making these preachy speeches. |
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The movie was praised for the subtleness of its themes. None of it came off as being too preachy. |
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But Free to Be wasn't politically-correct in an annoyingly preachy way. |
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My old fussbudget aunt had a very preachy manner and would prattle on about the dangers of alcohol and other vices. |
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Here's the thing, and I'm sorry if I sound kind of preachy. |
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Farm safety information sometimes comes across as being preachy. |
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The woman from the preachy daily and the man from the Post's broadsheet stablemate, who everyone knew were having an affair, were chatting to each other at an ostentatiously safe distance. |
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Wasn't diabolism, I asked, more fun than preachy divinity? |
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If the intent is ever faintly preachy, this is fluffily camouflaged by the playful chattiness and digressive lateral lunges of his benign, free-associative technique. |
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Consequently, your story should not be preachy. |
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The lyrics to Cheikh Lô's other songs are sometimes lacking in originality, however, revolving as they do around the themes of love, friendship and childhood and delivered in a vaguely preachy tone. |
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As the CPHA developed, its journal quickly looked more and more like other scholarly serials and less like the idiosyncratic, preachy and personal vehicle of its pair of initial editors. |
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By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American — voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist — was firmly in place in Europe. |
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