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Yet despite appearances, these "end of days" images do not sermonize about sticking to the straight and narrow, nor do they seek redemption.

Hardiman has an inspiration: Since CeaseFire has succeeded by using "influencers," people who once participated in violence now influencing violent people where they live, and since many families of gang members go to church, why not call on ministers to sermonize against the favorite gangster "sport" -- dog fighting?

If kids really are increasingly under a form of social lockdown, there is something truly depressing about stealing from them the few minutes they have to themselves these days to sermonize on politics.

For someone who refuses to articulate his own sexual identity, Sam tends to sermonize aloud about stereotypes and homophobia at the most inappropriate moments.

By golly, how could this network sermonize against illegal drugs when one of its officials is a drug user!?

Ouija board over my head, and Daddy would sermonize 'til the cows

Morris does not sermonize but it is clear that he believes that life is guided by a higher power.

Contrasting his later with his earlier work, the artist noted that "instead of attacking, public art insinuates." What his art has never done is sermonize. Which isn't to say it has no consequences for "theory," but rather that it can help clarify how what theory "does" is as important as what it "says."