Sentences with phrase «by preachy»

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No one likes a preachy sermon about the perfect diet (which, by the way, is an illusion).

5 This headline seems quite promising, but a closer look at the article reveals preachy warnings to stay away from «harmful» saturated fats (sorry, kids, no zinc - rich red meat or full - fat dairy products) and bland advice telling vegetarian teens to forestall nutritional deficiencies by eating more soy foods.5 The popular press is rife with such articles, most of which star endlessly hungry teenage boys with nicknames like «The Gaping Maw.»

With a simple eloquence that never gets preachy, it makes the point that the gay marriage movement was driven by the white middle class, while the marginalized transgender community remains largely unrepresented.

His faith was proofed by his experiences - but never gets preachy.

But the execution is handled so well that the story never gets preachy and will likely bring many to tears by the end.

Hoot isn't really trying to recapture a sense of nostalgia for these sorts of vacuous, sometimes - preachy little films, but it does appear to be made by people that haven't really matured past that era in terms of what they think of when they conceive of movies aimed at young adults.

Because director Ryan Coogler and his team have made an excellent superhero film that is culturally aware and has a message without being preachy, and the villain of Erik Killmonger (a terrific Michael B. Jordan) has a rich level of tragedy unmatched by other MCU villains.

Former «One Tree Hill» star Chad Michael Murray is circling a role in «Left Behind», the Nicolas Cage - starring remake of the preachy religious thriller fronted by Kirk Cameron.

The enduring and healing power of love, the strength of the human will, living for the moment — these are a few of the themes Cameron covers, but instead of coming off as blatantly preachy (which, in some of his previous films, he comes dangerously close to), he addresses these issues with careful subtlety, expressing them mostly through the characters and their actions rather than explicitly written dialogue (with the exception of a few words of wisdom dispensed by Jack).

The CEO provides the demonic foil that any great morality play cries out for, cynically played by Jeremy Irons, but the film still challenges us to ask ourselves what we would do if presented with the same situation, without becoming needlessly preachy.

The last time I saw a movie where so many whites were massacred by blacks was 1993's Sankofa, which was a little bit too preachy to be an enjoyable film experience.

Everyone is here to have fun, and honestly, by largely ignoring heading down the preachy route the movie ends up speaking for itself on how working together against common enemies and in tandem for the same goals is the right way.

By contrast, he filmed The Florida Project in 35 - millimeter, endowing the decrepit settings with a suggestion of cinematic beauty that adheres to the story's tone — never preachy but hyper aware.

In the least preachy terms possible, Spy Kids 2 pushes a message of family unity — adding to Buscemi's Frankenstein subplot is another involving Gregorio's invasive in - laws, played with perverse glee by Holland Taylor and Ricardo Montalban.

Too bad the preachy narration by Meryl Streep starts to get annoying very fast.

It is not a preachy book about how the rights or wrongs about life, especially in high school, should be / not be lived by any individual, nor about how one should react to any individual and their lifestyle choice, it is simply a story about a girl, and how she must handle her choices made during her high school years and beyond.

The unconventional approach to delivering a triple - A game by centering the single - player game around more non-interactive elements than interactive is sure to ruffle a few feathers; the viability of different play styles might lead people to believe it's a second - rate third - person shooter; and the emphasis on nanomachines and PMCs, without being preachy, might be too topical for some.

Sometimes the art world actually lags behind society, and the bursting of its preachy - self - indulgence bubble follows rather than leads the collapse of the economy's credit bubble by a couple of years.

CC can provide a perfectly adequate backdrop for a story — there's some decent SF that happens to be set in a world stricken by runaway global warming — but if it's all about the message, then the tendency is towards something that's awkward, preachy, shrill, long - winded, unfunny (or unintentionally funny) or just plain dull.

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