sermonic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- sermonically adverb
Etymology
Origin of sermonic
Example Sentences
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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
Another way to see it is that our visual art has become more essayistic in nature—which is to say: sermonic, assertive, usefully relevant to a polity ever more prone to the bizarre.
From The New Yorker • May 13, 2016
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
Nothing can be more tiresome than a sermonic amplification of such passages.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
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