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Shrill of voice with a tendency to sermonise on national broadcast television and possessing a confrontational style that brooks no opposition, Kirchner has survived massive personal and political setbacks from the unexpected death of her husband, a political mastermind who continued micromanaging Argentina behind the scenes even after she had taken office, to the economic downturn combined with a farmers' revolt three years ago that threatened her presidency.

Cristina Kirchner: she's not just another Evita | profile 2012

What the heck, since we're ripping off the good pastor, we might as well continue to sermonise ponderously.

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Surely the "printing error" was using a printer in Exeter and then piously sermonise to the rest of us about the ecological impact of our actions.

Don't Vote Lib Dem In Scotland Either Kerron Cross 2007

Backed by the disciplined repetition of his group ( 'Don't start improvising, for God's sake', Smith barks on 'Slates, Slogs etc', 1981), Smith could narrate or sermonise in a semi-codefied language that made philosophical comedy out of intellectual short-hand.

FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles 1998

I hope I am not going to sermonise often in the course of this narrative, but I have always thought that the legislative meddling with the Prize Ring was a grave mistake.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

Master Gordon possibly guessed what was the topic of Splendid's confidence, -- in truth, few but knew my hero's mind on these matters; and I have little doubt it was for John's edification he went on to sermonise, still at the shaping of his pen.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Both generals, in the intervals of actual war, sermonise each other, and with much the same spirit that they fight.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

And it must be remembered that she is constantly detaching herself from the forlorn "subject," leaving it _un_embraced and shivering, in order to sermonise it and her readers.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Angela saw and deplored this distance, scarce daring to touch so delicate a theme, fearful lest she, the younger, should seem to sermonise the elder; and yet she could not be silent for ever while duty and religion urged her to speak.

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866