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(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme / (noun) an inspirational catchphrase or platitude. homiletic: the art of preaching or writing sermons

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

—p.195 Under Eastern Eyes (186) by George Steiner
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confined as I had been until now to the Bible in Welsh and homilectic literature

—p.85 by W.G. Sebald
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Homiletically speaking, the only difference between the Prescriptivists and the Descriptivists is that the latter’s got a bigger choir.

—p.121 Authority and American Usage (66) by David Foster Wallace
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homilies to the free market

—p.13 Introduction (1) by Wendy Brown
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Remember that homily of Saul’s about ethics and morals, about ethics being money and morals being sex?

—p.29 Guideline: Things Fiction Can’t Do (22) by Martin Amis
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Unfortunately it was still in the middle of some night or other, either the one during which I’d had my homiletic dream or the one following.

—p.173 TSAU (165) by Norman Rush
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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

—p.26 by Alix Kates Shulman
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If 1940–41 was Hollywood’s peak (it had many glories), was it because a film exploded the homilies of romance in favor of flirtation and the joyful cynicism of journalism without much faith in its supposed grail, the Truth?

—p.243 Perverse (240) by David Thomson
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These stories are placid homilies of consumer-spiritual stasis

—p.80 Storified (78) missing author
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Enid had the heretical thought that it might after all have been wiser, in her maternal homilies, to have laid less stress on marriage

—p.139 by Jonathan Franzen
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I prefer to get my homilies from somebody a little more disabused than Dorothy Gale

—p.381 Say Something in Chinese (365) by A S Hamrah
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with an eye for Brechtian values – the fatalism, the irony in the face of Establishment homilies, the tenacity of self-preservation.

—p.59 "Satan's Strongholds" (55) by E.P. Thompson
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They offered a direct negative to the homilies of ‘supply-and-demand’.

—p.297 The Weavers (269) by E.P. Thompson
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For despite all the homilies addressed to the Luddites (then and subsequently) as to the beneficial consequences of new machinery or of ‘free’ enterprise

—p.550 An Army of Redressers (472) by E.P. Thompson
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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.

—p.351 The Transforming Power of the Cross (350) by E.P. Thompson
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I was sold on the eroticism I found in Milan Kundera’s homiletically pornographic novels

—p.163 Rape Fantasies (161) missing author
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An American President is fortunate—or, perhaps, unfortunate—that, offering his Labor Day homily

—p.xv Introduction (xiii) by Studs Terkel
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Politicians knew what homilies they had to repeat to be taken seriously by party gatekeepers and thus rise to prominence.

—p.25 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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is also the least homiletic

—p.191 On Zadie Smith (185) missing author
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