Sentence examples similar to it was preachy from inspiring English sources
When a rich white racist slaps Mr. Poitier, and Mr. Poitier slaps the arrogant massa right back, it's preachy, but it's also awfully satisfying to see Mr. Poitier behaving less than nobly, uncoiling, even for a moment, the power he usually holds in reserve.
It would have enabled a moderate like Arlen Specter to have fought it out within his own party and would encourage presidential aspirants — like, say, Jon Huntsman Jr., Utah's governor and a proponent of civil unions — whose ideal of conservatism on issues like gay marriage is more laissez-faire than it is preachy and nostalgic.
It is preachy, but it's also absolutely written from the heart.
Rubin agrees, while stressing he and the film's writer, Andrew Stern, "certainly didn't want to make a movie with a message or have it be preachy".
Feel free to tell your friends about it, but don't be preachy.
Mr. Bowen is adamant that Road Recovery not be preachy.
Smart comedy that turns the truth on its head and slaps us in the face with it without being preachy and pointless is such a rarity these days, and Bobby Joe Ebola compels us to devour every lyric and beg for more.
And he did it without being preachy – or with any agenda".
It can be preachy and didactic, and there were times when I could hear Al Gore's voice explaining some social trend veerrry sloooowwwly so I could un-der-staaaaand it.
