Sentence examples for being preached to and from inspiring English sources

"Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to and they don't like it," he says.

She was the choir asking to be preached to, and the seventy-odd seconds that followed constituted a splendid glitch.

Equally my friends and family didn't want to be preached to, and be told how to live by someone who only months ago had loved a good cheeseburger!

Women do not like being preached to by men, and the shale gas industry – like many other industries in this country – is dominated by men and engineers at that.

People don't like being preached to when they're reading fiction, and avoiding that is manuscript-specific.

"Restaurant people have been preached to, given literature, and still plead ignorance," she said.

This smug gospel is preached to a conventionally heterosexual choir, and the emphasis on home and hearth, combined with a defanged feminist angst, is alienating in the extreme.

It is preached to us on Sunday from pulpits and become the leading theme on cable TV.

He's preaching to us, and he's the kind of preacher we'd like to shower with spitballs.

As Gingrich explained it to me back in November, just after the election, what he had been preaching to Cantor and other House Republicans was actually more radical than that.

I'd be preaching to the converted and not to a wider, more critical audience".