Sentences with phrase «preachy about»

Slamming a paper before reading it and then trying to be all preachy about it?

In addition there seemed something implicitly preachy about Campbell's film.

Those quibbles aside, «Juno» is mostly just plain fun as it spins a sweet story and avoids being overly preachy about anything.

After all, here is a major company wanting us to consume, consume, consume being preachy about consumerism.

There is a lot of opportunity for In a Better World to be heavy - handed, to paint its characters in broad strokes, and to get preachy about privilege, poverty, or parenting.

This warm Italian comedy takes a look at generational issues without getting preachy about it.

I'm not preachy about my choices to others (or try very hard not to be), but I do believe in them and they're extremely important to me on a personal level.

I get very tired of people who are preachy about wasting food.

That doesn't mean getting preachy about breastfeeding; it means trying to listen for the underlying emotions and concerns in the comment and sharing information when it's appropriate.

Elizabeth Pantley really knows her stuff, and isn't preachy about doing things different ways.

I didn't see anything preachy about this post.

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Then there's just the simple joy of how «Blockers» manages to be educational about how to navigate sex and consent without ever becoming preachy or dull.

I'm a residual Catholic with agnostic / atheist leanings, but honestly... one of the biggest gripes about religious folks that agnostics have is that they're obnoxious and preachy.

Still he gently draws out the challenges he encounters — about simplicity, hospitality, contentment and self - assessment — without ever sounding preachy or self - righteous.

Too long — too preachy — too much about you!

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.

It would be easy for a show trying to make points about America's racial sins to become preachy, particularly in 2017.

Its not a preachy book and I don't feel guilty about not using rice flour or nut milk; my shopping bill is still cheaper even with some of the more weird ingredients on it.

A movie that teaches kids about emotions could have been dry and preachy.

She says she has become more «deliberate about the outreach work that I'm doing and clarifying to colleagues why I'm doing it, how I'm doing it, and how they can get started doing something — without being preachy or telling them what to do.

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

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

Blogging about serious issues, Laura still manages to make her work extremely enjoyable to read, avoiding coming across in a preachy manner.

Elisabeth Holm and Robespierre's screenplay is both quirky and grounded, gleaning pearls of wisdom about the toxicity of secrets in the face of truth without getting 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».

Addicted is supposed to be erotica, so perhaps thinking about it too much is unfair, but the film is so uneven (it's both hot and preachy), as well as way too long, that thinking becomes inevitable.

Now don't get me wrong, the movie isn't all about some preachy PC message (not all of it anyway), there is some fun to be had.

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

Although the film is a bit on the preachy side in an obvious way, it's difficult not to feel good about the women coming to terms with their own bodies and feeling proud of who they are.

Veteran TV director Jerry Jameson fails to think bigger than the small screen with this flat, preachy true story drama about a killer on the run (David Oyelowo) connecting with the recovering drug addict he takes hostage (Kate Mara).

It's a genre piece, and it's uneven (for once the juvenile actors in a movie aren't as good as the grownups) but it's not didactic or overly preachy and it makes some trenchant points about despair.

Though, if you are looking for a movie about the Spanish Civil War save yourself the preachy efforts of this film and check out Guillermo del Toro's «Pan's Labyrinth».

My only hope is that it isnt too preachy, but is rather a good movie that «happens» to be about black pilots who did nt get a fair shake VS being force - fed the fact that they're black pilots, so for PC's sake we must think its a good movie... < — As a minority, I cant STAND that.

Something else I love about «Black Panther» is Ryan Coogler found an organic way to talk about important real world issues without it feeling preachy or fake.

It's a preachy, after - school special about making the right life choices with some crudities thrown in.

It didn't feel preachy - the same can't be said about this remake.

This preachy, knowing, compromised play about political scandal is chiefly worth seeing for Cecil Beaton's astonishing costumes.

Meandering, preachy, and cliché, there is nothing else to say about it.

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.

Is this movie an amazing tale of inspiration or is it just a preachy movie about Jesus and football?

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

The preachy comment stuck with me, which is why, this year, I've decided to talk about sin — and in particular, the sin of omission and the basic idea that you should pay attention to what you are not doing.

The debate is usually balanced, always intelligent, and yes, sometimes the characters get a bit preachy, as people do on any controversial issue about which they are passionate.

We found the story about a missionary couple very interesting, without being «preachy.»

Karr manages to write about spirituality without ever coming across as didactic or preachy — no small feat.

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.

Just another thought — Just thinking about how some novels that are too preachy can turn off readers, even Christians.

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).

We did so without casting judgments or getting preachy, because our road trip is not about how dogs should live in America, only about how they do live in America.

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.