Word: sermonizer
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...known for our capacity to make sacrifices and to die a brave death," he told his flock last November in his first public sermon after being released by the Communists. "Poles know how to die magnificently. But, my dear ones, Poles must learn to work magnificently. When one dies one may get glory quickly; but to live in toil, suffering pain and sacrifice for years is greater heroism, and this greater heroism is needed today...
...from always turning good into bad. Morris manages to get through each day without dishonesty or cheating. He dies of a heart bursting with regret that "I gave away my life for nothing." But Morris was wrong, and Novelist Malamud proves him so in a tenderly moving funeral sermon by a rabbi who never knew...
...fundamentalism on the other. In Europe the preaching is on a deeper and more dogmatic level than here, but the churches are empty all too often. Here the preaching is close to the people, the churches are full, but the problem is whether the congregation hears anything in the sermon which its members have not already read in their morning newspapers and have already told themselves...
...introduced the Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded his white handkerchief in his hand, rose to deliver softly a slumbrous sermon (viz., leadership must compromise, else it becomes defeated) that was as uninformative as it was long (and brought evident drowsiness to a few of his neighbors, including chief foreign-policy lieutenant, Krishna Menon...
...Rainmaker (Hal Wollis; Paramount). Most modern audiences seem to enjoy a good sermon-as long as it preaches what they practice. They are also increasingly symbol-minded-provided the symbols do not excite the mental so much as the sentimental faculties ("It isn't enough that boy meets girl," one playwright complained. "Now they want to know what he metaphor"). They also have a kindly feeling of superiority for an old maid-if she isn't too old. And everybody loves a cowboy picture...