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- adjective Befitting a
preacher .
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Examples
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Despite all that the media have made of Obama's great oratorical skills, his "preacherly" cadences are foreign to this corner of the country - even among preachers.
Obama Campaign: Despite New Hampshire Loss, We're Well Positioned To Win Presidency 2009
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Peattie shares with Thoreau a preacherly penchant for the stirring epigram: "Curiosity, even idle curiosity, is a fleck of divinity in the eye of the beast."
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The tone was brotherly, preacherly: In other words, Clinton at his empathetic best.
Tucson Tragedy: What Obama Can Learn From Oklahoma City Howard Fineman 2011
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The tone was brotherly, preacherly: In other words, Clinton at his empathetic best.
Tucson Tragedy: What Obama Can Learn From Oklahoma City Howard Fineman 2011
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For this reason, John took it as his duty to chide, criticize, scold -- in particular he scolded me about my "pessimism" -- my "tragic view of life"; it was John's hope to enlist me in the quixotic enterprise of writing what he called "moral fiction" -- see the preacherly "On Moral Fiction" (1978).
Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine 2010
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For this reason, John took it as his duty to chide, criticize, scold -- in particular he scolded me about my "pessimism" -- my "tragic view of life"; it was John's hope to enlist me in the quixotic enterprise of writing what he called "moral fiction" -- see the preacherly "On Moral Fiction" (1978).
Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine 2010
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During the historic 2008 presidential campaign, Americans both black and white read his book, saw his skin, heard his occasionally preacherly speech cadences married to an academically trained intellect, and the bargain was sealed.
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Take a listen to how Obama lets the music of a phrase hang at the end in that preacherly way. ...
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During the historic 2008 presidential campaign, Americans both black and white read his book, saw his skin, heard his occasionally preacherly speech cadences married to an academically trained intellect, and the bargain was sealed.
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Barry Lee Pearson, you write in the liner notes that black Appalachian vocal style is generally less intense, it's less emotional and preacherly than styles from the Deep South.
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