The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.
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Vulture,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2023
Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
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Jared Yates Sexton,
The New Republic,
25 Mar. 2020
While others are content to anguish or pontificate over the plight of working San Diegans, Elo-Rivera is tackling the cost of living crisis head-on with his push to pass an ordinance mandating a $25 minimum wage for San Diego’s tourism workers.
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U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 July 2025
There’s been ad nauseam amounts of pontificating about the current state of the Democratic party.
Modern translations of the Oath are still recited at most medical schools.
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Arthur L. Kellermann,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Six months later, Congress changed the pledge gesture, with those who recite it placing their right hand over their heart to avoid resembling the Nazi salute.
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