Word: sermonic
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...good deal more salt than some of their leaders. True, the President held firm to the peace-through-strength policy in his excellent speech last week. But none of the Congressional budget cutters were seen rushing to withdraw their bills after the speech was over. They loved the sermon, but went on sinning...
Your article is a sermon in itself on the church and its beliefs...
...more frequently heard is the procession of words deserving to be named the Jericho Sermon. Some preachers . . . seem to have implicit faith that if they march around the outside of a subject seven times, making a loud noise, the walls will fall down. They rarely...
...might construct a little museum of sermonic models that were much used, but are now obsolete and ought to be retired . . . [One is the] Rocking Horse Sermon . . . which moves but does not go on, always charging but never advancing. Then there is what might fairly be called the Mockingbird Sermon . . . all the notes of someone else, either stolen or just imitated...
...sentimentalist used to achieve a sermon fortunately quite obsolete now, but still heard. It was a Confectioner's Sermon, like a wedding cake, a great, airy structure with candy chateaux, gardens of angelica, true lovers' knots of sugar, and hearts of purest whipped cream...