preachment

Such a gap between preachment and practice is common to all powerful democracies.

Neither is it an academic preachment on how worry might be conquered.

Reasoning is not the boring preachment given by the performers.

Sometimes she gets started on a very solemn preachment.

He has already practiced that preachment with other clients.

Now then, above is my preachment, and here follows the reason and purpose of it.

Shaw regarded this as a religious preachment, hence the play's title.

He is exploring it, gracefully, never stooping to preachment.

That may sound like preachment, but Mr. Wakefield is no preacher.

Forgive me for troubling you, my dear lads, and remember my little preachment.

Was't you that revell'd in our parliament And made a preachment of your high descent?

McBain of course is entitled to his detective's opinions, but this particular remark seems more preachment than character development.

By its own preachment it is inexorable.

Think over Mother's preachment, act upon it if it seems good, and God bless you all."

It is the prime preachment of socialism that the struggle is a class struggle.

Besides, to my knowledge no moral preachment has ever got the better of this kind of natural physical contact between boys and boys and girls.

Films that in any way stated a position about a social issue were usually labeled either "propaganda films" or "preachment yarns".

No high tones, no preachment!

It seems patronizing to an enlightened audience that a theater company is producing an archaic preachment instead of an essential wakeup call.

Since then there has been more dialogue and less preachment, and, says Mr. Miner with some pride, "the communities come to us for advice."

He showed me what it meant and he gave me a preachment about a few Monroe Traditions of truth and honor.

-- "Will you be our guest at the monthly dinner of the Fifth Avenue Guild, and give us any preachment that is on your mind?"

Much Saxon remembered of that mad preachment, much she guessed and felt, and much had been beyond her experience and understanding.

Pre-Code historian Thomas Doherty felt that two recurring elements marked the so-called preachment yarns.

And this time, it is the Democrats who want to put on the brakes, despite Al Gore's preachment that: "This is America.