Word: sermonic
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Mark has been remanded to Father Farley for remedial taming, and this results in some of the funniest scenes in a play that, for all its tensions, bubbles with surprising laughter. When Mark seeks to deliver a sermon on the evils of "mink hats, cashmere coats and blue hair" Father Farley shows him how to palliate his anathema "in a Norman Rockwell setting." Perplexed as to how to console parishioners who have lost a dear one, Mark is told by the Father to "bring common grief to the level of the inconsolable by saying something inane," and he proffers some...
...part in the disco phenomenon. We hear a tale of a woman who is heading for disaster because she cannot reason anything out by herself; meanwhile, the one thing which she can comprehend, a trite pop melody with a rather standard beat, ironically carries the structure of Hall's sermon...
...that trucks in religious certitudes. Garrett's enunciation is excellent, his modulation poor; annoyingly, his voice turns nasal at the most inopportune moments--a saint with a stuffed nose. Like the chorus, he doesn't seem to change as the play advances. The temptations of the first act, the sermon in the interlude, and the moment of final submission and canonization in the second act all find him earnest but sulky. There's no fear in his trials, no tenderness in his sermon, no sanctity to his sacrifice...
...1870s, before modern marketing and packaging had been developed, Ralph Waldo Emerson prophesied: "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door...
...brother of the top American skater sits in front of us, twisting around awkwardly to deliever a sermon on the politics of ice dancing. The awful truth: he predicts all the scores again and again, before his sister, Judy, and her dancing partner, Mike, perform. And when they do, they are oh-so-American. When they kiss in the middle of each figure, the crowd goes crazy with applause for cuteness. The American ice dancers were absolutely the cutest...