Sentences with phrase «preachy for»

Some of it was a bit too preachy for me but the gist of the message was inspiring: real estate is first and foremost a relationship - driven business and it DOES require constant personal interaction.

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.

Again, he gets too pastor / preachy for at times.

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.

I read the Big Book for my counseling class, and it is one of the most preachy books I have read along with the Bible.

jeff - I forgot to add that those same work - oriented Christians I do charity alongside seem to share my lack of appreciation for the way preachy Christians have a habit of disappearing every so often to «chat» with clients in a corner, or in the parking lot.

I apologize ahead of time for taking a preachy, serious, sad tone.

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

Because they don't try to control others» That bears repeating for the xstians and other «preachy» religions.

you are becoming preachy instead of having a back and forth conversation... you didn't answer any of my questions nor did you provide anything to be used as an argument for my @ssertion that satan is a creation of the middle ages and its need for a reason why such horrors have befallen them and they didn't want it to be god that did these things so...

(BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright) Her blog has become cult reading for anyone looking for simple and delicious food that's healthy and not preachy.

It's a bit on the cold, clinical side and gets a tad preachy in parts, but it's a worthwhile addition to your parenting library for accurate medical advice for parenting a toddler.

I love how you aren't preachy, advocating that all moms do what they think is right for their babies.

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.

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

Never preachy, THE VEGETARIAN FAMILY COOKBOOK is a down - to - earth, straightforward guide to making healthier choices, including a slew of great reasons to go vegetarian (for both personal and planetary well - being), as well as reasons why choosing organic products is always best.

D - 9 definitely has a lot going for it — character development, great acting a at least a few people, awesome alien weapons; it felt a bit preachy at times at different times though

Reitman, for his part, is coming off a bad patch (2014's preachy «Men, Women & Children»; 2013's ridiculous «Labor Day») that put his early triumphs (including 2005's «Thank You for Smoking» and 2009's «Up in the Air») in uncomfortable perspective.

While it's quite clear what Spielberg is saying, he deserves credit for tastefully handling it in a way so that it never comes across as too preachy.

The film is slightly preachy, but overall let's the viewer decide for themselves what is supposedly right or wrong.

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.

It makes for tiresome viewing, particularly as the message being put across is both questionable and preachy.

Inarrittu's narrative isn't quite as preachy, but either way, it's hard not to criticize the director for attempting to cash in on the award craze of both features, and star Brad Pitt seems to be following suit.

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.

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.

Symbol - heavy but never pretentious or preachy, the film follows a traditional path — she is betrayed, she is underestimated, she repays her assailants for their toxic masculinity.

«Marshall» isn't a preachy film, and props for that, it doesn't need to be that.

During the first two seasons of the program, the show was rightly faulted for its preachy tone and the awkward dialogue that undermined many of the show's core relationships.

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.

Eventually, all of the assorted melodramas serendipitously merge and resolve themselves satisfactorily right on cue for a preachy Tyler Perry denouement during which our heroines take turns expressing their resolve to rise above their overwhelming personal challenges.

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.

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.

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.

But if all that sounds too somber and preachy, neverfear, for there is masses of tension, and exciting action.

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

For Marieme, her choices are limited along racial, sexual and socioeconomic lines, but Sciamma's perceptive film is too honest and understated to feel 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.

The movie gets preachy and moralistic, when at the end, Mrs. Dorrance encourages Vic to use his talents and skills for «something clean and honest.»

«For all its social pertinance, the film is never preachy or didactic, and its clearly primarily concerned with providing a solid popcorn experience.»

ParaNorman loses steam in the predictably extended climactic swirl of CGI phantasmagoria and preachy peacemaking, but for the most part, its winningly cockeyed grasp of the macabre makes it ideal scare - fare for families.Hide

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.

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!»).

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.

Whether Paddington is doing kind deeds for his neighbors or winning over the prison's cantankerous cook, Knuckles McGinty (Brendan Gleeson), he moves through London spreading generosity, joy, and acceptance — a message that's never preachy but feels particularly powerful in the wake of Brexit.

Don't worry, Sausage Party never gets overtly preachy because this thematic element is just used as the driving force for the story.

Follow up each scene with contrivance after contrivance to further give voice to the movie's underlying preachy nature, and if you're going to preach, you might as well go the distance and wrap John and his family up as God - fearing folk who go to church every Sunday and take time out to pray for a miracle in every scene.

Yes, it's preachy at times and many of the characters are oh so earnest, but you'll find yourself rooting for them.