Speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements.
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Examples for "moralize "
Examples for "moralize "
1 Wilt moralize on the folly of the time,-thevices of the age?
2 One could moralize on this at considerable length, but better not, perhaps.
3 Only with regret can a writer forbear to moralize on this subject.
4 Never criticize, antagonize or moralize - and your company will be sought by everyone.
5 If we go and moralize it can be tricky and backfire in Afghanistan.
1 What would a historian be who, instead of making researches, would moralise ?
2 But it is not the object of this book to moralise .
3 To moralise this story, Virgil is the Apollo who has this dispensing power.
4 It went out of fashion, says Chuang Tzŭ, when people began to moralise .
5 A third person, whose vanity was not concerned, might moralise thus-
1 I could volubly sermonize ; only it should be a young maid to listen.
2 You going to use a lectern and sermonize or do the walkabout talk-show act?
3 But it was impossible to quiet Savéliitch when once he had begun to sermonize .
4 You might sit and sermonize just as well, mightn't you?
5 Heaven knows I have no right to sermonize ; but, at least, I never shammed anything.
1 "I'd rather hear you preachify , " she said, "than the preacher himself."
2 "Soon as the gals and I get the dishes done, we'll be out to hear Abe preachify . "
1 But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.
2 Have you, too, come to preach and sermonise ?
3 You used occasionally to sermonise too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.
4 People stood side by side for hours, singing hymns and listening to the pastor, Paul Enenche, sermonise on the dangers of plagues.
5 Any man able to sermonise better, or rhapsodise more cheaply, or beat the bush of divinity more energetically, can occupy the pulpit tomorrow.
6 In children's books one often comes across such mothers, sermonising and just.
7 There was one heart, though, that neither dismissed Joe with gratuitous pity nor sermonised about him.
8 Dear Eric, don't think that I'm always sermonising .
9 To avoid the appearance of sermonising as much as possible, I put it on mere grounds of expediency.
10 Mr. P. is bearing up bravely, but feels the listlessness of which I spoke, and finds sermonising hard work.
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