| In their speech, there is a tendency to be rhetorical and instructive and school-masterly and sermonising. |
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| He slumps in the auditorium, worrying that his mother is rambling or sermonising. |
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| Anthony Hopkins goes from sullen silence to wordy sermonising as an unhinged anthropologist in this heavy-handed drama. |
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| One critic once said that George Eliot was the only English writer who was into sermonising and moral platitudes. |
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| Keith specialised in depraved characters who committed acts of extreme brutality while sermonising on the virtues of a good and moral life. |
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| In their hey-day, the Seven Deadlies could draw forth endless hours of vituperative sermonising in the churches and cathedrals that were packed to capacity. |
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| It is sermonising and institutional in its attitudes and dubious about programmes of this kind. |
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| Nor can the Bank's holier-than-thou sermonising be doing much to warm chilly relations with the disgraced finance ministry. |
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| The thing that really grates, though, is the po-faced sermonising on global warming and heavy-handed attempts to make Serious Points about Serious Issues. |
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| This is the vital point, and if it cannot be achieved everything else will become ambiguous, uncertain and vaguely sermonising in tone. |
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| Theatre is therefore not preaching or sermonising, but leaving its mark on our consciousness. |
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| It should also develop without sermonising the other big areas which will take part in the indispensable civilisation of the world. |
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| Occasionally the poetry shades into incantation, with a suggestion, especially towards the end, of sermonising. |
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| You need a lot of confidence in your material if you're going to give episodes such unpromising and vaguely sermonising names as Qualities and Difficulties. |
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| However, praying, sermonising or wearing religious garb in the streets surely compromises the requirement that the public weal not be dragooned into supporting religion. There is the environment to consider, as well. |
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| When he is not sermonising, his book fizzes with inside detail. |
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