sermoniser

Listening to him over the years, I've often wondered how much the language and texture of his youthful Catholicism influenced his writing – he has suggested elsewhere that the "smell of frankincense" has never really left his clothes; is he a frustrated sermoniser at heart?

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Obama could learn a thing or two from Krauthammer about not sitting quietly taking garbage from a sermoniser.

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Rockney could not be a mild sermoniser commenting on events.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

Rockney could not be a mild sermoniser commenting on events.

Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

Rockney could not be a mild sermoniser commenting on events.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

He was not by any means what is styled a sermoniser.

Rivers of Ice 1859

I said nothing, as I knew the famous superintendent of police to be a dreadful sermoniser.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

I said nothing, as I knew the famous superintendent of police to be a dreadful sermoniser.

Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 26: Spain Giacomo Casanova 1761

I said nothing, as I knew the famous superintendent of police to be a dreadful sermoniser.

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

Listening to him over the years, I've often wondered how much the language and texture of his youthful Catholicism influenced his writing - he has suggested elsewhere that the "smell of frankincense" has never really left his clothes; is he a frustrated sermoniser at heart?

The Guardian World News 2010