Sentences with phrase «from preachy»

You would want to run a mile from their preachy patriotism and scepticism of mobile phones and the internet.

The Way Way Back is far from preachy but it doesn't shy away from showing the toll that the adults» hedonism takes on the kids and their own relationships.

Much of the rest of the film feels forced — from the preachy animated prologue, to obvious, basic themes about racial division, tension and hatred.

He explains how, since about 2012 — when he shifted his art from a preachier, almost didactic posture to a more reflective, emotionally place — he's had to constantly defended himself.

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His strong religious faith, although never presented to his teammates in a preachy way, also kept Robinson from joining «the club.»

All = Awesome = All No one is excluded from participation unless they are abusive, preachy etc..

It is hard to gauge how this plays with the intended audience, though Sarna often tries to anticipate the reactions of his daughter and her friends» mostly rolling their eyes, occasionally «howling objections»» to statements that diverge from conventional liberal doctrine or sound preachy.

My cries for change were met with constant negativity from my parents, accusing me of being too preachy, too crunchy, or too unrealistic.

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.»

To say she is not contributing to society through a more normative sense of responsibility would be too preachy for this film, but Complete Unknown does not shy away from showing us Alice in her eerily quiet moments of identity transformation.

As with «American History X,» Kaye's stance is obvious and moment to moment scenes are a bit preachy, but none of this detracts from the established tone and eventual takeaway of this socially conscience, effortlessly powerful movie.

The naughtiness that's supposed to be providing us vicarious thrills is at odds with the preachy, moralistic narration from Fonda's character.

The overarching point — that society demands the impossible of mothers and punishes them harshly for stepping out of line — looks to be well made, but with plenty of laughs to keep things from getting too preachy.

The aesthetic and originality of his films are felt and seen, but many complaints for his movies are that they became too preachy in nature while recycling the same ideas from previous works.

At a certain point, we have to come up for air after drowning in information, and Andrew Stern's screenplay, which starts as a preachy look at the dangers of being inundated with technology, ultimately is focuses on those moments — the ones in which people do come up for air and quickly realize that their lungs are straining from lack of use.

I also fully expected a preachy environmental film and refreshingly, that was far from the case here.

Solid performances, and a sincere faith in the dignity of the average working stiff, save it from getting too preachy.

Like many Christian films it can get a little preachy, but unlike most of them, it is not overly long and you don't get a lot of the bad distractions from a film poorly made.

Things could have gone all predictable and preachy from there, but co - writer / director Joachim Trier knows what you're thinking and he plans to use it against you.

I swerve far from being preachy (and if you think I don't after reading one of these books, please email me with your concerns), so I think even people who aren't generally a fan of Christian books will enjoy this series.

This book expands your knowledge of the world, but is neither stuffy nor preachy, after all it is ultimately from the voice of a child.

The last thing I wanted to do was churn out preachy inspirational fiction which would be both unconvincing and hypocritical coming from me, a lapsed Catholic who falls under the «spiritual but not religious» umbrella.

Inspirational rather than preachy or sentimental, the book wields the emotional power to be expected from a story of family, dogs, justice and self - reliance.»

The tinfoil was a collage element that gave the paintings an objectlike identity and also was a humorous pun that kept the paintings from becoming preachy.

And yet, maybe it's just me, but the video from the UNEP that Moses and Levitt use to argue their point seems to fall into exactly the kind of preachy, sanctimonious «I know what's good for you tone» that they claim we should avoid.