Sentences with phrase «like preachy»

My general sympathies may lie with libertarians, but I don't want to be like the preachy locavore who reaches for the imported Scotch or the pious enviro who drives his Prius back along a freeway to his metropolis after a weekend at his fussily organic country farm.

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).

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

Not exact matches

People listen to preachy people like you quite often, yet you prefer not to be questioned or called to heel ever....

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.»

I also like that you come across as very down to Earth about your life and not too preachy.

I really like this palette because it has both a matte and a shimmer highlighter and a pretty preachy blush shade.

Heard over the phone a few times, Susie Essman comes off like a stereotypical Jewish mother to Ben, but she has one late, great scene that's smart and insightfully written without coming off preachy.

The switch he has at the end in his confrontation with his old friend ends up feeling like a super moralistic preachy lesson about «doing the right thing».

I really liked that film up until the end and then it started to get preachy «Don't forget who you are!».

At times, the new film plays like a Wayans brothers parody of a late Malick picture: Sleepy Movie, Floaty Movie, Preachy Movie.

While trying to do the former, it becomes too preachy — especially during its last act — , and while doing the latter, it feels more like a cheesy made - for - TV movie than a theatrical release.

«It's... not easy to write simple lyrics that resonate and don't sound preachy and don't sound like what we've heard before,» Common said.

Though the premise makes it sound like it could be preachy, this cute children's story is anything but.

Much of the movie is focused on Sutter's drinking and a related accident, though, like Smashed, this is not a preachy, disease - of - the - week movie.

For best actor I would not have chosen Norton simply because I don't like the film (I find it veeery sentimental, preachy, and «look - at - me - I'm - important!»).

Much like the novel, the film takes a matter - of - fact yet thought - provoking perspective on the central underlying fact that governs the character's lives — never didactic nor preachy, but encouraging you to construct the rest of society (which exists as a sort of negative space against which our characters appear in sharp relief) and the ethical concerns that the film brings up but doesn't answer.

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.

There is much to like about this movie, starting with its attitudes — which are refreshingly progressive without feeling forced or preachy.

While the special effects were decent enough, and Jennifer Connelly is always easy on the eyes, I have to warn you that what you get here is not a cutting edge sci - fi flick like it's original, but rather a preachy commercial on going green.

To explore issues like classism and racism without ever being sanctimonious or preachy, to show the story through the eyes of a child without ever getting cutesy or patronizing, to weave together all those separate little storylines without ever letting them feel sloppy or disjointed — it's a rare author who can manage even one of those, and Harper Lee makes them all look effortless.

«I so wish there had been a book like this back when I first started... there no preachy comments, and this book isn't pushing any one particular way to be a writer... or whether or not traditional publishing is better than e-publishing» Romance writer Ryan Field

«I so wish there had been a book like this back when I first started... there no preachy comments, and this book isn't pushing any one particular way to be a writer... or whether or not traditional publishing is better than e-publishing»... reviewer Ryan Field

Personally, I like that, in addition to helping senior dogs find forever homes, the page also attempts to educate people (i.e. clarifying the different types of shelters, offering «The Truth about Pitbulls,» etc.) without sounding preachy — a tough balance to strike.

Which was kind of funny because she's basically saying like well we need to see this diversity in games without the preachy grandstanding or drama and here I am being super nit - picky and dramatic about it.

It could have been another inaccessible JRPG with a trite, ridiculously preachy story about a group of lovable misfits but it just doesn't make the same mistakes things like that have made.

Constantly mired in endless cutscenes and cinematics, it almost felt like I was more of playing a mini-game during a very preachy, self - absorbed story line.

As they worked with elementary and middle school kids in Nantucket, there was no scary talk or preachy message — simply an exercise in trying to step out of now and look forward to what coasts could look like when today's children are elders.

Our work finds that this awkwardness is especially marked among young people, who told us that climate change is «uncool,» «sounds preachy» and is «not something I feel comfortable talking about - like religion.»

Telling the Times that he doesn't like films that are, «too preachy,» Mr. Levinson hopes The Bay will provide both entertainment and reflection.