sermonic
Americanadjective
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James Baldwin’s soaring, sermonic prose; Toni Morrison’s scriptural authority; William Faulkner’s Genesis-like cosmologies of Southern identity and place: All draw heavily on a Christian-inflected aesthetic.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
He brought his remarks home with the sermonic delivery of his dream of social and class harmony transcending racial and ethnic lines in America.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
But unlike “Selma,” her drama about Martin Luther King, Jr., it can seem awkwardly sermonic, relaying its ideas by way of familiar tropes.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2019
His stories were wry but almost sermonic in style, and were often told from the viewpoints of both sexes:
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2015
From one stage of sermonic publication to another the work has gone on, until week by week, and for about twenty-three years, I have had the world for my audience as no man ever had.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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