Translations for „sermonize“ in the English » German Dictionary

ser·mon·ize [ˈsɜ:mənaɪz, Am ˈsɜ:r-] VB intr pej

sermonize (lecture)

moralisieren oft pej

sermonize (preach)

predigen inf

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English

The idea quite obviously is to build awareness about the disease, but the film doesn't slip into sermonizing.

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There's no partisan sermonizing here.

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Any (former) mass-release movie is likely to have its share of sermonizing.

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This is not because we have booming population growth and a shortage of roof space, as our ministers are fond of sermonizing.

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To sermonize your morals while making comments like the above without an ounce of contrition reeks of hypocrisy.

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Talking down to people or sermonizing are the least effective modes of diplomacy.

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Not that there's any point in sermonizing about such a self-consciously anarchic celebration of adolescent hedonism.

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The depictions of harassment and prejudice are not subtle, but neither are they sermonized.

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The tradition of sermonizing is hugely valuable, because we are in need of guidance, morality and consolation -- and religions know that.

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Ward evangelized the social gospel, sermonizing on matters of economics and poverty and the potential role of the church in the rectification of the structural failings of society.

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