Word: sermonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would try to send a signal the next day. Unlike the political audience in Worcester, the crowd at Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard was ensconced in a church and used to the dramatic arc of a sermon--of sin and repentance. It was a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, and there to introduce Clinton was Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, an authentic hero of the civil rights movement. The hours before were filled with conference calls about Russia and the impending Northwest Airlines strike, and as Clinton was riding to the chapel...
...free of foul language," says Paxson, who runs his empire from West Palm Beach, Fla. Paxson insists, however, that he's not aiming for a new incarnation of the Christian Broadcasting Network. "We're not going to proselytize or evangelize in any way. Jesus gave only one sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. The rest of the time he told about his father in stories and parables. And we'd like to be the story and parable teller...
...even better movie that starred Burt Lancaster and his aggressive teeth, was, like Clinton, a born embracer: "He had a voice made for promises." Discovering his calling as a revivalist preacher, Gantry rose to prominence on the words, "Love is the morning and the evening star." That was his sermon, which did double duty as his seduction line for women. Eventually his wandering eye brought him down; his once adoring congregation hurled eggs and spat in his face. The nonapologetic address he gave his public--"Brothers and sisters: Goodbye!"--was short and sweet...
Sisters and brothers, the subject of today's sermon is that light of our lives, the Queen of Soul, sister Aretha Franklin. Preach, Reverend...
...reinforcing the company's rep as a corporate bully. By the time the Microsoft CEO held his face-to-face sit-down with Klein two weeks ago, the DOJ team had already listened enough. "We were not prepared," says a testy Klein aide, "to hear another Bill Gates sermon...