Without sermonizing or even trying to prove the existence of a divine power operating in the universe, these oblique dramatic parables imagine lives influenced by unseen forces whose intentions can't be predicted or even begun to be grasped.
There's much to be said for unfashionable earnestness, but when a poet sounds like he'd have to struggle to order a taco without sermonizing about "desire" and "the body," his readers are liable to get a little impatient.
Like this one, the best "political" albums are the most understated, offering the essence of the issues without sermonizing, delving into both private and public politics.
That's "pow" in-your-face sermonizing.
The present investigation traces the contours of the preaching landscape in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, outlines the innovations in sermonizing in Reformation Switzerland and Germany, and, by way of conclusion, suggests how these changes affected people's public and devotional lives in two concrete ways.
There was the Protestant cult of the afterlife, which had, Schantz shows, a kind of folk-art particularity in American sermonizing.
The beatific preacher who takes Mr. Hirsch and Mr. Holbrook to his hilltop shrine, is a well-known local figure, so caught up in his sermonizing that he may not have fully comprehended that he was appearing in a movie.
Other scenes show the band playing at a prison and at an anti-apartheid benefit; Picciotto and Ian MacKaye giving a thoughtful interview to a solemn eighth-grade girl; and MacKaye, in concert, sermonizing, with the passion that only a punk or a minister can summon, not to beat people up for being gay, or for being black, or for being women, or period.
We have already seen how satirical fiction, which transports readers into a hypothetical world from which they can observe the follies of their own, may be an effective way to change people's sensibilities without haranguing or sermonizing.
Led by the shaman Bokonon (Horace V. Rogers, sermonizing in a rich accent), the performers, many in multiple roles, form a chorus as they sing Bokononist scripture.
