Word: sermonic
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...places like Greensboro, N.C., where he was born, and Laurel, Miss., where he did most of his growing up. And it was in the small towns of the South that Marlette learned the values that provide the subtext for his cartoons: the idea that the Constitution and the Sermon on the Mount amount to more than nice words for homilies and Fourth of July speeches; the idea that they are actually a practical plan for running your life and governing the nation...
...started at the Pope's regular weekly audience in St. Peter's Square. In his sermon to a crowd of about 10,000, John Paul stated that if a man looked lustfully even "at the woman who is his wife, he could likewise commit adultery 'in his heart...
Director Lynch--whose only previous film is the weird and silly Eraserhead--handles Elephant Man with rare tact and delicacy. He paces his film deliberately, creating a cautious, mild-mannered atmosphere that keeps it from becoming a ridiculous creature feature or a two-hour sermon on life's injustice. He subtly presents a London caught in the grasp of the Industrial Revolution. Lynch's camera tracks through crowded and filthy streets and alleys, where the loud chugging and whooshing of factory machines creates an incessant, maddening clamor. In one night-marishsequence dozens of dirty, sweating, barechested laborers slave over...
...windowsill. A domestic portrait gives way to an extreme closeup of a rusty knife cutting through bread--the sound suddenly amplified and grating. Idyllic farm panoramas are interrupted with scenes of chicken roosters being slaughtered, huge shears go through sheep's wool, the camera slowly absents itself from a sermon and creeps in on a bloody axe, a strange glance, nervous fingers drumming violently...
...Republican candidate's talk at the meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters in Lynchburg was blandly disappointing to many who had been hoping for a fire-and-brimstone sermon. Mindful of the storm he had stirred when he addressed an evangelical Christian audience in August and questioned the theory of evolution, Reagan this time confined himself to platitudes about peace, inflation, separation of church and state -though he did say, when asked about voluntary prayers in public schools, "I don't believe we should ever have expelled God from the classroom...