Yes, in the end, he became an insuferable sermonizer (and he sent me poison pen letters when I said that in People). From Wordnik.com. [Tag the greatest — but not obvious — TV shows « BuzzMachine] Reference
And it is genuinely difficult to understand how, in those cases, the sermonizer avoids the realization of what they're doing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
To claim that she was "invoking" the memory of RFK's assassination, or whatever it was the great sermonizer (clowning Keith) said, is absurd. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
When he accepted the position, he clearly outlined how he planned to approach his new job when he said: "I am a frustrated sermonizer, so watch out.". From Wordnik.com. [Corporate Governance: How to Say No and Still Get Lunch] Reference
It's kind of hard to judge a sermon (and therefore the sermonizer) by a snippet of what was probably a 30 minute exhortation, particularly if one doesn't examine the whole sermon. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: I "Profoundly Disagree" With Pastor Over "God Damn America" Comments] Reference
A hatter by trade, Cleveland was also a poet, songwriter, essayist, lecturer, and sermonizer who made public and private pronouncements about religious truth and individual freedom. From Wordnik.com. ['David Ruggles'] Reference
Yet one can literally find examples this blatant every day, where someone spews the most self-righteous, vicious condemnations towards other people for doing exactly what the sermonizer routinely does. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Or we might turn to the problem of technique, that professional equipment for his task as a sermonizer and public speaker which is partly a native endowment and partly a laborious acquisition on the preacher's part. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
This is another case in which the Obama campaign engages in something that TPM, and its resident pompous sermonizer Josh Marshal would have reacted to with his highest moral outrage -- had it been perpetrated by the Clinton campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Tries To Dial Down Tensions And Fallout From Racial Dust-Ups] Reference
But as the sermonizer would doubtless go on to remark, there is a certain universal quality in all great literature, and genius builds better than it knows, and so each man can draw his own water of refreshment from these great wells of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
As a moralist and occasional sermonizer, I am not so anxious about it. From Wordnik.com. [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference
Oh, Dr. Dennis is a good man; no one doubts it; but he is too severe a sermonizer. From Wordnik.com. [The Chautauqua Girls At Home] Reference
D. is a strong, logical and forceful Gospel preacher; he is indeed a model sermonizer. From Wordnik.com. [History of African Methodism in Virginia or Four Decades in the Old Dominion] Reference
Saban, infomercial sermonizer, talked a lot about loyalty and integrity and toughness. From Wordnik.com. [Hushed Casket Recent Posts] Reference
Then her teacher calls her an incorrigible little sermonizer, and she laughs at herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life]
My predecessor there, Dr. Brown, was a profound sermonizer, and generally liked, I believe. From Wordnik.com. [The Crucifixion of Philip Strong] Reference
He, in fact, was thought the ablest sermonizer, who could stretch the longest string of divisions, up to the "nineteenthly," and beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply] Reference
But Master Silas could keep his temper no longer, and cried, fiercely, "Seditious sermonizer! hold thy peace, or thou shalt answer for 't before convocation.". From Wordnik.com. [Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk] Reference
Dr. John Hall wrote carefully, leaving his manuscript at home; and so does Dr. Alexander McLaren, of Manchester, who is to-day by far the most superb sermonizer in Great Britain. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a Long Life]
Meantime the editor of the "Clarion" was being quietly but persistently beset by another sermonizer, less cocksure of text than the Sweet Singer of Policy, but more subtle in influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Clarion] Reference
Jansson -- who'd probably be played by Willem Dafoe today if anybody could sell a major studio on a Lutheran epic set in the midwest -- had acquired a reputation as a riveting sermonizer. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
As to the moral sermons against the undesirable and obnoxious element, all that can be said, from a practical standpoint, is, that their originality and wisdom are in no proportion to the salary the sermonizer receives. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature] Reference
Men of all sects read it with delight, as in the main a truthful representation of the 'Christian pilgrimage, without indeed assenting to all the doctrines which the author puts in the month of his fighting sermonizer, Great-heart, or which may be deduced from some other portions of his allegory. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Ms. Sparks and Rabbi Alper, invited as part of the seminary's "field-based" program to teach some of the intangibles of ministry not covered in the divinity curriculum, surveyed the arc of potentially humorous situations - including weddings, funerals and long, hot summer days when even the sermonizer can lose the thread of a sermon. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Alston is the best sermonizer. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America,] Reference
Maxwell will satisfy them as a sermonizer. '. From Wordnik.com. [In His Steps] Reference
And he makes for a charming sermonizer. From Wordnik.com. [Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip] Reference
Moralist and occasional sermonizer. From Wordnik.com. [Images from Works of Oliver W. Holmes] Reference
“I’m not a sermonizer, so I won’t take long. From Wordnik.com. [Political Unity in the Big Tent] Reference
Gibbs, Sarah A., dissection of a sermonizer, iii, 391. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference
These quarrels, however, (which had always nearly the same beginning, middle, and end), left no resentment, properly speaking, in the good Lucias heart against the harsh sermonizer, who, after all, treated her, in general, very kindly; and even in this instance, evinced a good intention. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXVII] Reference
The one looked upon the other as too licentious, if not criminally so, in his habits and pursuits; he did not know their extent, or dream of their character, or he had never doubted for an instant; while he, in turn, so estimated, did not fail to consider and to style his more sedate brother an inveterate and tedious proser; a dull sermonizer on feelings which he knew nothing about, and could never understand -- one who prosed on to the end of the chapter, without charm or change, worrying all about him with exhortations to which they yielded no regard. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference
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