sermonise

• “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.”

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

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

  Archive 2006-07-01

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.”

  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

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