Some players complained that I was sermonizing.
I think — wow, that's sermonizing.
I don't want to be sermonized to in a restaurant.
It was here that its first rabbi, Abraham Rice, sermonized in German from the bimah (raised platform) set in the middle, rather than at the end of the room, in accordance with European synagogue design.
Satire replaced sermonizing as his signature style, and it was better received.
He reconsidered his approach on "Extra Texture" (1975) and "33 1976 (1976), albums that touched on traditional blues and continued to refine a quirky, humorous personal style, best heard in "Crackerbox Palace" and "This Song". Satire replaced sermonizing as his signature style, and it was better received.
After joking about his girth (his favorite humor subject) and the message that Pope Benedict XVI told him to bring to the candidates (it was in Latin, he said, so he didn't understand it), he sermonized about the legacy of Al Smith and how he had "a tear in his Irish eyes for what we would call the 'uns'" of the world.
Ironically, it was this affront to justice that led the Rev. Increase Mather to sermonize: 'It were better that ten suspected witches should escape, than that one innocent person should be condemned.' Time no longer sanctifies forensic practices, it deconstructs them.
Which was his way of sermonizing that the game was no more a track meet than it was a tractor pull.
Red Holzman would invariably begin his arbitration with a perfectly timed heh-heh, and then he would say, "Fellas, basketball is basketball". Which was his way of sermonizing that the game was no more a track meet than it was a tractor pull.
