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Preaching in sentence

123 examples of Preaching in a sentence

Not by preaching, not by telling, not by reading, but by addressing your mind.
It isn't a time for explanation, or preaching, or theology; it's a time for tears.
In an audience as sophisticated as this one, that would be preaching to the choir.
One of the things that I want to leave you with as you think about this talk is that this talk is not just about us preaching to the world.
And I just want to show you that I'm not just preaching, but I also practice.
I even tried to be innovative in my preaching.
And so the paradox was this: If I really wanted the community that I was preaching for, I needed to reach out and embrace this group that I had cut out of my definition.
I work on questions predominantly to do with refugees, and one of the ideas I spent a lot of my time preaching, mainly to developing countries around the world, is that in order to encourage the integration of refugees, we can't just benefit the refugee populations, we also have to address the concerns of the host communities in local areas.
There's you, there's a stranger, there's some third thing that you both might see and comment on, like a piece of public art or somebody preaching in the street or somebody wearing funny clothes.
I was preaching in San Jose some time ago, and my friend Mark Kvamme, who helped introduce me to this conference, brought several CEOs and leaders of some of the companies here in the Silicon Valley to have breakfast with me, or I with them.
This could be the eccentric leader of a marginal political party somewhere in Europe, or an Islamist extremist imam preaching dogma and hatred, or it could be a white supremacist Nazi-admiring orator somewhere else.
They're not preaching at people or telling them what to do.
But since it didn't happen here, we can put it out of our minds, and people like Jenny McCarthy can go around preaching messages of fear and illiteracy from platforms like "Oprah" and "Larry King Live."
So, preaching for freedom of speech is easy here, but as you have seen in contexts of repression or division, again, what can a cartoonist do?
This movie spends most of its time preaching that it is the script that makes the movie, but apparently there was no script when they shot this waste of time!
Okay, it features one lovely blink-and-you-miss-it-joke (when the dead are rising from their tombs, the names of the old time "horror" directors like Jacques Tournier and Jean Yarborough are featured in the tombstones) and the smashing of morally bankrupt Repu/con/rightist villains is on-target: whorish skanks preaching morals etc.
This film spends a lot of time preaching against marijuana.
Now this would have been fine, since the first film was preaching the same message.
The problem is that the sequel does it's preaching at the expense of the comic relief.
An even better example is the Hollywood leftist writer preaching to us tritely through Freeman's character, early on, about the plight of the Indians; I mean - yawn!
First, I felt that this movie was definitely preaching and I hate that.
Stop preaching to me already!
While the movie is unfolding the story stops and the actors start preaching to the audience.
this movie informed,yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience.
It's a gripping, and not a preaching, movie.
There is no preaching.
He wanders through many places preaching his Christianity but finding, most of the time, people that do not accept him.
However,I have the feeling that I am preaching to the choir here because anyone who loves Walter will already own it.I'm very glad it's out on DVD now,finally.
But I am preaching to the converted aren't I. Who else would search for this flick?
The characters illustrate some truths about getting the best out of people, working together harmoniously, building a team and achieving goals, without ever preaching morality.
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