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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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"...

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

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...

activities of the church community she first experiences in Stamps, in the sermonizing, and in scripture. Angelou told an interviewer in 1981 that the Bible...

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...

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...

Weinberg of DVD Talk wrote that "it's just as overstuffed with smug sermonizing as its predecessors". David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote, "It's not great...

and the Beast, the real beast may be Anderson's penchant for ponderous sermonizing." Bruce Eder of AllMusic was not too impressed with the album. Recalling...

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...

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...