Sentences with phrase «into preachy»

Although I find the premise intriguing, I can't help but hope immigration is handled with a lighter touch than health care was in So Much for That, where the dialogue occasionally crossed into preachy polemic territory.

Throughout his narrative, Delisle manages the deft trick of delivering humor, history, insight, and information without straying into preachy or reactionary territory.

The complications are riveting, but Shelton renders them with such tenderness and delicacy that the film never slips into preachy «social problem» movie territory.

Does the film enter into some preachy moments?

It's to his credit that Graham largely resists getting too drawn into a preachy thesis on press ethics, although one set piece between Lamb and Cudlipp gets perilously close.

Not exact matches

I won't get into any religious issues or get preachy here, and I'm not even encouraging meditation, but every person on the planet who has to work for a living needs to follow this basic routine.

Preachy, sketchy, disjunctive, and with a blistery, solarized sheen that makes it look microwaved rather than photographed, «Fair Game» is a movie that for the most part trades on the Wilsons» notoriety instead of delving into the heart of it.

The fact that he can combine so much politically - driven storytelling into this human drama without ever coming across as preachy is just brilliant.

Credit goes also to Van Sant, who keeps the dramatics simmering while presenting an uplifting look into a time in our recent history that echoes a whole lot of current upheaval while never veering into being preachy or sentimental.

In his first directorial duty since «Into the Wild» (2007), Penn, recognized as a human - rights activist in Haiti, relies on Erin Dignam's shallow, preachy script, filled with whispered, often incoherent dialogue.

The third act also gets incredibly self - righteous and turns into a whole preachy affair on ethics and morals.

He turned it into a stirring, occasionally preachy tale about the Pittsburgh pathologist who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy but could get hardly anyone to listen to him.

While the novel never falls into the trap of becoming too preachy or too offensive, Saving Montgomery Sole does openly explore various perceptions of sexuality and religion.

While it never falls into the trap of becoming too preachy or too offensive, Saving Montgomery Sole does openly explore various perceptions of sexuality and religion.

I like reading fiction where something about God or about how we relate to God is woven into the story (I don't like preachy fiction, where the author hits me over the head with his or her answers).

That doesn't mean the game gets preachy, but it does mean that you can't drop an antelope into the lion enclosure.

Without being preachy or over the top, Steampotville takes readers on a fantastical journey where animals repurpose our junk into a world of fun yet absurd perspectives, that definitely challenge the way you might look at the world... or... um, their world.

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.