Sentences with phrase «preachy in»

Never preachy in tone, Positive Gun Dogs deals rationally with the motivator choices and presents a clear option for those who would rather not employ pain to train their field dogs.

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.

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 have never thought your blog was preachy in any fashion — more take it or leave it, your choice.

It felt preachy in parts.

Not exact matches

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

To the author; not to sound «preachy» but, your answer - as a Christian — is in the Bible.

This environmental theme reaches a «preachy» level that secularists would mock if applied to some evangelical doctrine in any other movie.

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.

Not in a preachy way, but in being who we are — divine beings with human capacities.

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

All of this is true; yet in common parlance «to preach at someone,» «to give someone a sermon,» or «to sound preachy» are decidedly pejorative expressions.

I've never felt in the years that I'd been visiting Crunchy Domestic Goddess that she's ever been preachy or militant.

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.

We are much better as a country now than in those snobbish, racist, preachy, homophobic years.

«Don't get preachy,» says Kim Johnson, who started the Hawaii farm - to - school education program «Aina in Schools with her husband, musician and green giant Jack Johnson.

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.

«[One of the] best books of 2017... In The State of Affairs, Perel explores a vast landscape of the adulterous terrain... in a way that's deeply humane and never preachy.&raquIn The State of Affairs, Perel explores a vast landscape of the adulterous terrain... in a way that's deeply humane and never preachy.&raquin a way that's deeply humane and never preachy.»

I don't want to sound too preachy but I am fast falling in LOVE with this line..

Suzanne, I have trawled many blogs supposedly aimed at what women over 40 «should» wear and most are condescending and preachy - and tend to assume everyone works in an office.

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.

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.

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».

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.

And not preachy - the story gives a message but doesn't smack you in the face with it.

My children fell asleep in this overly long, overly preachy, confusing mess of a movie.

In literature, melodrama can come off as overblown, preachy.

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.

Films that deal with moral issues in a direct way are often tagged, rightly or not, as preachy and didactic.

It is a bit preachy and a little full of itself in regards to its message and theme, but is still an important and memorable story worth watching.

Waugh is self indulgent in his approach to the material, and the dialogue occasionally bogs in preachy rhetoric.

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.

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.

They remain on the forefront, but refreshingly not in a preachy manner.

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.

Naturally the effects look outstanding, but story wise it still looks as trite, cliched, melodramatic, heavy - handed, anachronistic, and preachy as it came across in the script treatment.

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 dialoguIn 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 dialoguin Haiti, relies on Erin Dignam's shallow, preachy script, filled with whispered, often incoherent dialogue.

Yet while the movie is sure to leave most viewers in despair, the filmmakers are smart enough to use their big cast to include gray areas in - between the two factions, making it less preachy and more messily human.

He's a thin character that stands out in the otherwise no - nonsense fast - cutting action of the film's investigative thread, and he's saddled with the majority of the preachy life - lesson monologues as the film nears its conclusion.

In Paul Weitz's «Grandma,» not only did the film succeed in endearing us to the character of a bad - tempered lesbian septuagenarian (a very funny Lily Tomlin), but it tackled the abortion issue in a way that never felt preachIn Paul Weitz's «Grandma,» not only did the film succeed in endearing us to the character of a bad - tempered lesbian septuagenarian (a very funny Lily Tomlin), but it tackled the abortion issue in a way that never felt preachin endearing us to the character of a bad - tempered lesbian septuagenarian (a very funny Lily Tomlin), but it tackled the abortion issue in a way that never felt preachin a way that never felt preachy.

Former «One Tree Hill» star Chad Michael Murray is circling a role in «Left Behind», the Nicolas Cage - starring remake of the preachy religious thriller fronted by Kirk Cameron.

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).

Interpreted variously as a preachy liberal fable, an allegory of the McCarthy era and as a commentary on U.S. involvement in both Korea and WWII, it stands first and foremost as a fine, classic western movie.

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

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 parentinIn a Better World to be heavy - handed, to paint its characters in broad strokes, and to get preachy about privilege, poverty, or parentinin broad strokes, and to get preachy about privilege, poverty, or parenting.

It also never becomes overtly moral or preachy, another flaw that is all too prevalent in children's entertainment.

She is silly, blunt, filthy, immature, and imminently likeable in a movie that delivers the goods without being preachy.