preachiness

Very young viewers may well find the preachiness of this slightly puzzling.

In episodes like that, the show gave preachiness a daring spin.

- might at least make sense to an older child, but, then, 8-year-olds abhor preachiness more than little kids.

Against this backdrop, the party could do worse for its image than choose a leader who is inclined toward a little preachiness.

But the self-conscious preachiness and gaseous prose of the first book have been toned down.

The exhibit tends to stick with the facts, with minimal preachiness.

But it conveys plenty of wonder while mostly avoiding any saccharine preachiness.

Such details are what keep this play engaging, even through its occasional lapses into allegorical preachiness.

Others describe God in the natural world in a way that eschews preachiness and sentimentality.

Another Whittle executive, who spoke only on condition that he not be identified, said the company also did not like the work's "preachiness."

Lipsyte reveals all the zeal, arrogance and preachiness of born-again people.

He knows that humor may leaven his preachiness and his dour economic message.

The bald preachiness of what follows, however, quickly extinguishes these welcome embers from a significant talent.

Can they beat apathy and avoid preachiness?

Some critics consider the film as a superficial after-school special for its familiar underdog story and inherent preachiness.

There's some preachiness in Priest, and yet you go away feeling the embrace of something lovely and spiritual."

"Capra expertly extolled traditional values, such as family, community, love of country, with humor and without preachiness."

Damien becomes uncharacteristically articulate on the subject, and what was shaping up as an unsettling play gives way to preachiness.

But preachiness isn't Shapiro's main problem.

A consequential cause is thus diminished by sentimentality, preachiness and a self-conscious overlay of significance.

But the undulating cadences, the elegance of language and, yes, the pedantic preachiness are eerily similar.

Then there's the dictionary's annoying preachiness.

But as these statements accrue, a listlike preachiness creeps in that seems more the author's dictates than the character's true voice.

In attempting to present segregated Southern society matter-of-factly, it avoids shrillness and keeps its potential for preachiness more or less at bay.