Punctuating these homilies are the literal "voices from the chorus"

confined as I had been until now to the Bible in Welsh and homilectic literature

Homiletically speaking, the only difference between the Prescriptivists and the Descriptivists is that the latter’s got a bigger choir.

homiletic fiction desires peace

Remember that homily of Saul’s about ethics and morals, about ethics being money and morals being sex?

My grandmothers, teachers, uncles and aunts, and especially my father, were always encouraging me with their constant homilies: if at first you don’t succeed try try again; hard work moves mountains

These stories are placid homilies of consumer-spiritual stasis

Enid had the heretical thought that it might after all have been wiser, in her maternal homilies, to have laid less stress on marriage

I prefer to get my homilies from somebody a little more disabused than Dorothy Gale

For centuries the Established Church had preached to the poor the duties of obedience. But it was so distanced from them – and its distance was rarely greater than in this time of absenteeism and plural livings – that its homilies had ceased to have much effect.

They offered a direct negative to the homilies of ‘supply-and-demand’.

For despite all the homilies addressed to the Luddites (then and subsequently) as to the beneficial consequences of new machinery or of ‘free’ enterprise

with an eye for Brechtian values – the fatalism, the irony in the face of Establishment homilies, the tenacity of self-preservation.

I was sold on the eroticism I found in Milan Kundera’s homiletically pornographic novels

An American President is fortunate—or, perhaps, unfortunate—that, offering his Labor Day homily

Politicians knew what homilies they had to repeat to be taken seriously by party gatekeepers and thus rise to prominence.

is also the least homiletic