Word: sermonizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...preacher's sermon from which the )ook takes its title begins...
...week's end many a citizen was ready to shrug off the whole business. Then slippery Father Coughlin popped up again in the Christian Front news, blandly disavowed his earlier disavowal. Said he (in a Sunday sermon) : "While I do not belong to any unit of the Christian Front, nevertheless, I do not disassociate myself from that movement. I reaffirm every word which I have said in advocating its formation; I reencourage the Christians of America to carry on in this crisis for the preservation of Christianity and Americanism. . . . We will visit these prisoners with our prayers. ... If they...
...Hamilton Gibbs's A Half Inch of Candle (Little, Brown, $2.50), a south-of-France British romance and pacifist sermon, slightly animated by the author's boyishness...
Disputed Passage (Paramount) recounts the up-to-date version of the believer who loses his faith-the strict scientist who loses his atheism. This cinematic sermon is based on a novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, retired parson, whose best-selling Green Light and Magnificent Obsession, both successfully picturized, both treated other phases of the same conversion...
...Secretary has no sense of timing. When the slaughtered pigs are better forgotten, according to all New Deal strategists, he delivers a carefully phrased explanation of the policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard-boiled New York publishers at their Book Fair, he delivers a long baccalaureate sermon on the history and joy of literature. Too highly political to serve as a model for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, there is nevertheless a touch of Mr. Smith about Mr. Wallace; in fact, says Mr. Krock, "He is one of those men whom reporters can induce to talk when...