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even the most contrived plot twists." Kirkus Reviews stated that "Dated sermonizing on career versus motherhood, and conflict driven by characters’ willed...

Oliver Stone's personal experiences in Vietnam, Platoon forgoes easy sermonizing in favor of a harrowing, ground-level view of war, bolstered by no-holds-barred...

disappointment, and many were affronted by what Inglis described as Harrison's "sermonizing". Further, he reworked the lyrics to several Beatles songs, and his laryngitis-affected...

readers to draw their own conclusions; others argue that Heinlein is sermonizing throughout the book, and that its purpose is to expound Heinlein's militaristic...

Producer-Director John Sturges has created classic cinema of action. There is no sermonizing, no soul probing, no sex. The Great Escape is simply great escapism"...

writing "Its feel-good storyline, shopworn message, and bottomless sermonizing would have played better in Sunday school than on the big screen, which...

sad thing is that he goes about this task with less subtlety and more sermonizing, with the result that the scenes where he wishes to make a point come...

community as being akin to a lesbian sex show with Jeffs participating and sermonizing. Holm also said that mothers who would not take part were sent away to...

genre, with the emphasis on character development rather than moral sermonizing. It soon became one of the top-rated shows on television. During its...

painfully unsophisticated grab-bags of melodramatic cliches, tired jokes and sermonizing. Peter Debruge of Variety said the film "recycles familiar ingredients...

Angeles magazine, as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing". Chick's views have been spread mostly through the tracts and, more...

rhythms, and intonations. Hagen also sees elements of African American sermonizing in Caged Bird. Angelou's use of African-American oral traditions create...

confuses spiritual uplift with melodramatic clichés and heavy-handed sermonizing." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100...

for conservative politics. This led Billy Graham to criticize him for "sermonizing" about political issues that lacked a moral element. Graham stated at...

a "decent" balance between cartoon anarchy and Disney's you-go-girl sermonizing. He praised the title character's "bugged-out status", writing that it...

According to Ultimate Classic Rock critic Nick DeRiso, the song's "haughty sermonizing" towards Lennon is one of the weaknesses of the Ram album, though fellow...

disturbing visions and dreams, including the recurrent voice of her father sermonizing. She attempts to walk to the nearest town, discovering a cross-shaped...

based on the teachings of the Indian poet saint Kabir (1398–1518). Kabir sermonized a monotheism that appealed clearly to the poor and convinced them of their...

of the local residents and authorities through his mad wandering and sermonizing in the forests: The story went round, and was preached from the pulpit...

"ubiquitous presence of nineteenth-century compositional techniques", and "sermonizing strategies" in the Book of Mormon's text (such as figures describing...