(1) "There's funny and joking, the two are different … As things progressed, both with adult and junior books, I found that in subtle kinds of ways, without being preachy at all, you could suggest rather interesting things."
(2) This is where you may think I’m getting a little preachy, but I’m genuinely trying to avoid that.
(3) Oliver's playfulness gives him licence to criticise that which in hosts Bill Maher or Piers Morgan comes off as aggressive, preachy or so politically skewed as to be pandering to one cause or another.
(4) Despite the circumstances, this blog is far from preachy – Erin's refreshing approach to vegetarian cooking feels more like a journal, less like an example.
(5) And if there are many respectful quibbles about the nature of Sorkin's preachy drama, there isn't anyone who's saying, it's just not true.
(6) The flip side of Cash's gritty, carved-from-stone persona was a tendency to preachiness, and this came to the fore in a string of long-winded "concept" albums such as Ride This Train (1960), Blood, Sweat And Tears (1963) and True West (1965).
(7) Every story is a manual on how to be a good person, but without ever being preachy.
(8) They can be preachy and holier-than-thou, even as their scandal-hit ministers keep coming.
(9) That preachy, patronising thing – it was necessary at the time, but audiences have become more sophisticated."
(10) That’s part of what Robin Williams did with socially conscious material – he made you laugh, but he also taught you something, and not in a preachy way, either.
(11) Her voice was insistent but not preachy, her analysis detailed but never obscure.
(12) The ad staked out the London Paper's claim as the liberal voice of London, dispensing with the "lecturing and preachy tone of its rival" and reflecting "the racial, sexual, cultural, economic and political diversity" of the capital.
(13) Pride engages the audience not in party politics or preachy agendas, but in much bigger concepts of generosity and compassion.
(14) Far from being preachy and simplistic, Brecht proves to be pungent and complex.
(15) Several months in, she got a nanny and she now works at least three hours a day on the site, which has been compared to Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop , though it's less preachy.
(a.) Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious.
Example Sentences:
(1) She provides a strong contrast to her sanctimonious, humourless sister Mary, who spouts empty platitudes about acceptable female conduct.
(2) It's not just on Fox News, but now also on MSNBC, where speaking critically of a military official, even in the mildest of tones, is treated like it's some sort of grave crime against the state: one that results in sanctimonious outbursts, manipulative appeals to patriotism, and the casting of the offender out of decent company.
(3) But Cruz’s aura of smug sanctimony, like his lack of humility, is striking even in an age of Trumpery.
(4) Here's a chocolate tart to really enjoy – not sanctimoniously dark or unpalatably bitter – just smooth, malty and rich.
(5) Suzuki admitted to journalists he called Trudeau a twerp, and the Liberal leader dismissed his critique of the party’s climate policy as “sanctimonious crap”.
(6) However, he also said it was important “not to feel too sanctimonious”, adding that he believed intelligence officials responsible for torturing detainees were working during a period of extraordinary stress and fear.
(7) My sanctimonious two cents: We all do stupid things and saying sorry when you’re in the wrong is always a good thing, but the monotonous regularity with which Pardew gets himself in scrapes with rival managers, officials and - now - opposition players tends to render his post match apologies rather hollow.
(8) Hockey said he wasn't interested in "sanctimonious lectures" from a prime minister who had "called me a fat man in parliament" and who had on Tuesday branded him and his colleagues "effectively, misogynist pigs".
(9) As this report is a sanctimony-free zone, we'll not be going into the rights and wrongs of last night's game here, but whichever side of the argument you stand, you have got to admit: that is one hell of a quote .
(10) Certainly, there are those of us who have begun to regard Tumour Neck Man as an old friend, a fellow sinner in a world full of sanctimonious bores.
(11) I had no responsibility for, or interest in, the sanctimony of other news organisations.
(12) Despite the government's sanctimonious assurances, there was never a serious police inquiry into the perpetrators of these attacks, and the attackers were never apprehended.
(13) One says that this is a mere smokescreen of sanctimony meant to hide a retreat from a market Google was unable to conquer for business reasons … The other is that this is a true act of moral bravery," said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based expert on the internet.
(14) It will be the British at their worst: sanctimonious, self-congratulatory, worshipping at the tomb of the unknown, awful German.
(15) For those who believe the Liberal Democrats can sometimes veer between the sanctimonious and the eccentric, all this will seem further confirmation of the party's fundamental unfitness to govern.
(16) It will just turn you in to a self-deluding, sanctimonious bore.
(17) There are reasons for not clambering on to the soap boxes of sanctimony too swiftly.
(18) Look, at the risk of sounding sanctimonious, I think the BBC is there to do good.
(19) I could be a critical friend of the coalition.” While his party was in government, Farron voted against the tuition fee rise and the bedroom tax, provoking a senior party member to confide to a reporter, “Which bit of the sanctimonious, God-bothering, treacherous little shit is there not to like?” Just weeks before this year’s election, he scandalised colleagues by scoring his party’s handling of coalition politics a headline-catching two out of 10.
(20) Johnson said the BBC’s more niche public service programmes “go on to BBC4 where quite often you can’t measure the audience but they fulfil their remit and they can argue when they go on their sanctimonious missions about justifying £4bn [in licence fee income], ‘Well of course, we do all these obscure programmes that no one watched.’ “They put them on a slot where no one was ever going to watch them.” On the licence fee, Johnson told the committee: “I challenge you to find a more regressive system in terms of who gets the best value from it.