I'm sorry that this sounds so preachy, but something can be preachy and still true.
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Too often in seasons five and later, it was just preachy for the sake of being preachy.
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Without being preachy-preachy or beating you over the head with it, it exposes the absurdity of prejudice.
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Their opinions usually run deep, and if you get them going, they can start to sound a little preachy — okay, maybe a lot preachy.
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Before anyone stops reading because this is just another preachy Christian movie, please know that the movie is faithful to the writings of Paul, but it is anything but preachy.
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Like his best work, there's no preachy moral code here.
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Unlike other parenting books, Karp's doesn't feel preachy or berating.
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There's an implicit judgment that can feel preachy or hypocritical.
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The Inventor succeeds at instilling the lesson without getting too preachy.
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In their eyes, by contrast, the West appears fickle and preachy.
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Even Jon himself may seem inexplicably preachy at times in flashback.
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You can talk about social reform in ways that seem preachy.
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It was surprising, far from self-serious, pertinent without seeming preachy.
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But it never strays into being preachy or self-congratulatory, either.
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People tend to resist when advice is preachy, Ms. Marshall said.
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Instead, it's a preachy mess, cock-blocking any sign of fun.
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The politics here are elemental and undeniable without being preachy or pretentious.
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The trouble is that a lot of it feels preachy and flat.
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They made it cool, without ever seeming pushy or preachy about it.
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They were less preachy, a more convincing way to go in peace.
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But the stories never get preachy or go in the obvious direction.
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"She probably spared us from half a dozen preachy commercials," he says.
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But they're also known for judging others, being preachy, and showing off.
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Or the preachy public service announcements during TV commercials or movie preshows?
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Carbon taxes are less preachy, especially if they are balanced by tax cuts.
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Not only is there no alt-poetic obscurantism, there's nothing preachy-programmatic-etc.
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I liked pro football until it got a little preachy toward the end.
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Bumble will have an ad with Serena Williams, and that might get preachy.
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Beyond two preachy substance-abuse numbers, this is consistently fun, interesting, or both.
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What kind of a hack would lower himself to rhyming "Nietzsche" with "preachy"?
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Mr. Trump has dispensed with what he considers pointless moralizing and preachy naïveté.
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There's nothing worse than books for young people that are preachy or reactionary.
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None of it is preachy, none of it is jumping down anyone's throat.
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On paper, the combined narrative of religion and hardship might sound depressing or preachy.
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Educating them without being too preachy seems like a fairly successful strategy so far.
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"I didn't want to make some sappy, serious, preachy film," Del Rio firmly states.
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But she tried to avoid preachy dialogue, letting action and plot speak for themselves.
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The film is never preachy, and portrays Donna in an honest but sympathetic light.
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When we sense that an art work is "preachy," we tend to tune out.
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Yet it never feels preachy or didactic, because it stays so laser-focused on Starr.
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Neither of us are preachy people, and we don't want to come off that way.
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Jameela Jamil apologized for being "preachy" after criticizing Kim Kardashian West's new body makeup line.
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It isn't preachy, and the the cast doesn't feel as disjointed as in previous films.
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The show isn't, er, preachy, and does not require much knowledge about Catholicism in particular.
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I'm sure that's not entirely true, but something about its selling points were naggingly preachy.
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For many adolescents, the danger is a lure; they smoke to rebel against preachy adults.
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Too often, the theme of this year's edition — odysseys — led to predictable and preachy theater.
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In real life I am a vegetarian with a tendency to get preachy about animal conservation.
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But while bringing awareness to this delicate issue is Samp's goal, he isn't preachy about it.
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One of Coker's greatest talents is keeping this material from ever feeling too heavy or preachy.
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Mr Jope may be less preachy than his predecessor, more pragmatic and, possibly, more profit-oriented.
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And when the conversation turns to Christine's health, it's in a way that's realistic, not preachy.
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The religion elements of it feel full-on preachy, and the science fiction ones essentially ignored.
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You can do the real practices, but you don't have to be some preachy yoga person.
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Another film that tackles the questions of faith without being preachy and monotonous in doing so.
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Instant Family captures the magnitude of the challenges of America's foster care system without being preachy.
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At times, the film's insistence on linking the silent to the sacred can border on preachy.
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Every time a plot feels corny or prurient or preachy, there's an acknowledgment in the dialogue.
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These days, nobody likes preachy blue-ribbon commissions, and bipartisanship is a total nonstarter in Congress.
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I think it gets boring when you become too preachy—that can be left to academia.
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I don't want to be too preachy, but I was for sure conscious not to kill anybody.
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Extinction Rebellion presents climate change as a moral, not political, cause but tries to avoid being preachy.
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Full of empty platitudes and preachy generalizations, it was remarkable primarily for the enormity of Obama's conceit.
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But mostly, it doesn't play up any girl-power messages, or get particularly preachy about its feminism.
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"Heat and Light" also involves two pastors, but that's as close as it comes to being preachy.
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I'm not a big yoga fan, but this place is not preachy and is very laid back.
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Supporters of the mine argue that preachy greens from Sydney and Melbourne also benefit from the resource business.
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But at times it felt a bit more forced and preachy with its us-against-the-world lecturing.
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The first verse would be preachy and flat if it didn't lead immediately to a soaring, fatalistic chorus.
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This gives Atlanta the space to breathe and explore deep topics calmly without coming off as preachy or desperate.
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So this song is very personal but it also had this non-cheesy, non-preachy, anthemic quality to it.
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But even though its subject matter is frequently serious, it never gets preachy — and will still make you laugh.
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Political ballads were put beside Trey Songz features, and the preachy tone was never dropped throughout all 12 songs.
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If I'd written this as a sermon, it would be preachy and aggravating and not much help anyone else.
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He seems genuinely hyped when talking about fresh food and—crucially for meat-eaters—he's not preachy about veganism.
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Far from preachy, Elephant is a meditation on and prediction of the rise of violence in young American life.
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These casual internet surfers might be tempted to scroll past conservation public service announcements (preachy) or scientific tracts (boring).
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She makes a decent case, even if her own relentless high-mindedness risks coming over as preachy at times.
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One of the things I love about Billy is that when he writes, he has all this stuff in the back of his mind, but he tries to go into the gray of the world and have a ton of fun there, and have things to say without creating a preachy, preachy sermon.
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The show had always been preachy, but in a vaguely palatable way where the preachiness felt grounded in the characters.
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It's an insightful look at people and places outside of our familiar comfort zones, but it never gets too preachy.
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"Lady Dynamite" deftly harnesses Ms Bamford's self-proclaimed desire to destigmatise mental health, without ever getting too morose or preachy.
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That barrage of preachy fitness posts you get on your Facebook feed from your really "healthy" friends have a name.
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Brian Godawa, Christian screenwriter, thinks it's important to note that Christian films aren't the only ones that are explicitly preachy.
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Before "Little Women," young people's books were mostly preachy tales in which the virtuous were rewarded and the wicked punished.
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Admirably, Yoon explores themes of racism, forgiveness and acceptance without getting earnest or preachy or letting anyone off the hook.
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Even if it sounds preachy, corny, or over-protective at first, the advice we've gotten from our dads sticks with us.
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They're not only hilarious, but they really dive into that stuff, so it doesn't feel preachy, because they're really living it.
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Harris' book isn't preachy; rather, it recasts small lifestyle changes as part of a struggle to regain that sense of self.
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Perhaps inevitably, "When We Rise" also risks becoming preachy in places, as characters deliver speeches in the course of ordinary dialogue.
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I did that not to be preachy, but because incremental changes in temperature, or slightly more powerful hurricanes happens so slowly.
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But while it's satisfying to see Colette succeed against all odds, that would make for a preachy film on its own.
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Click here to view original GIFHave you ever dreamed about impressing the people around your neighborhood with preachy Banksy-inspired graffiti?
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"We're not trying to be preachy here, just holding up the mirror" goes one typical-sounding official statement, provided to Polygon.
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Written by Aeysha Carr, "Shoot-Up-Able" isn't exploitative of tragedy, nor preachy in an after-school special kind of way.
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We should embrace our cluelessness, and be curious about sexuality, rather than being all cheesy and preachy and erotic fiction-y.
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It's not a preachy series, but there's a message under the surface, and the politics occasionally burst out into the open.
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This clash allows the film to explore the intersecting identities of each woman without judging either or coming off as preachy.
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These elements are subtly woven into the magical story about talking lamps, and the game never takes on a preachy tone.
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I hate to get preachy but I'm a living testament to the fact that whatever you believe, you can definitely achieve.
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"The Side Effect" isn't preachy about this, because it's too busy focusing on its tiny romps with The Magicians' supporting players.
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But when he tried to write a book about conservation for children that wasn't preachy or boring, he got writer's block.
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It may come across preachy and I'm sorry, but cramming 15 cities into 14 days is going to make you miserable.
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They learn about setting healthy workplace boundaries, staying calm amidst arguments, motivating staff without seeming preachy, and managing their own ego.
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The novel's characters may help readers see the complexities behind labels like "white" and "Latina," in a refreshingly un-preachy way.
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Not that it's preachy, but the constant connectedness goes hand-in-hand with surveillance, and with the spread of destructive ideas.
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But the social commentary in her work is never heavy-handed or preachy; her approach throughout is both playful and political.
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"So many times these movies are heavy-handed in some way or preachy, I never felt that from this," said Duhamel, 45.
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I try not to get too preachy but it's our duty, as artists, to at least open up the floor for conversation.
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A certain amount of bias comes out in the edit, but Jafa employs it in a way that's neither evasive nor preachy.
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" A limited complaint with a plea for help is less of a domestic grenade than, "I'm so done with that preachy cow.
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Conceptual photography is also a way for us to engage with some of the serious topics in our history without sounding too preachy.
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And although personally fond of boisterous jokes, he was among the founding figures of Germany's rather humourless and preachy tradition of public discourse.
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Make this story too specific to human beings, and it runs the risk of being preachy or of having its message shrugged off.
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His concern is that if parents come off as preachy or pressing, children might feel forced to do something they aren't comfortable with.
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And throughout, Mu'min refuses to present tropes typically attached to Muslims and Black girl or make preachy declarations about Black American Muslim identity.
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I wanted it to say something and to do that without getting caught preaching, because if it's preachy, who wants to hear that?
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But through fierce honesty, and without being preachy, Sheff creates that same hesitant empathy for Justin as he did for himself in Tweak.
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And by situating that story among animals — who already have natural, antagonistic predator-prey relationships — it can explore that dynamic without feeling preachy.
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Ms. Sakata's deeply researched script could come off as preachy, but in Mr. de la Fuente's hands, Gordon is a sweetly steely idealist.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When Christianity influences contemporary films, the result is often preachy dreck about the evils of secular society.
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X got preachy with the crowd at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival ... a day after his release from jail for multiple tax evasion charges.
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It's a good lesson for young people who may not have learned it yet, and this comic says a lot without being too preachy.
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Miraculously, none of these stories feel preachy—and often they kink into a joke, or a surreal image, or some other unusual narrative swerve.
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The movie smartly looks to be inspiring rather than preachy, and except for some mawkishness in its late scenes, comes off as unexpectedly watchable.
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The president's words came across as a sincere and humble sermon that addressed unpopular topics without being overly preachy or demanding, Mr. Trelles said.
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When Marr sings "We're spending all our wages / going out of fashion / Who's buying utopia?" he makes that sound less resplendent rather than preachy.
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The game has been designed specifically to avoid being preachy, which can hinder behavior change, said Jake Manion, head of production at the company.
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It goes to the heart of the depravity and tragedy of the terrorism in Manchester, though it gets a bit preachy at the end.
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But what keeps The Hate U Give from veering into the melodramatic or preachy territory is that it commits to fleshing out its characters fully.
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I start our reading with Red, the most innocuous and least preachy of the books, since the characters are crayons and their identities are colors.
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" Such approaches are part of what prompted the media critic Jack Shafer to complain that when reporters are maligned, "They go all whiny and preachy.
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I was in a rush, or a mood, or a mess, and the Transcendentalists read too slow, sounded too preachy, felt too above it all.
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But compared to its predecessors, High Fidelity is much more self-aware than something like Girls, and less preachy than something like Master of None.
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It's understandable that Booker didn't dwell too long on the veganism question; perhaps he didn't want to risk alienating voters by coming off as preachy.
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This modest, quiet story — based on a magazine article published more than 20 years ago — could easily have turned into something preachy, sentimental and overstated.
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We have a lot of music like that, where it's like very preachy, and I don't want to like cloud the enjoyment of a song.
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Nothing about The Last Night's world sounds preachy — if anything, its social commentary sounds remarkably mild, covering ubiquitous future-shock anxieties like gamification, automation, and consumerism.
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Tilghman was also acutely aware that talking about her period could come across as preachy, so she tried to be as open and honest as possible.
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But the only way I could deal with these issues without becoming too serious or becoming preachy and tearing out my hair in frustration was humor.
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At the dinner table and in our relationship, I could be fiercely opinionated, sometimes preachy, or even totally hypocritical, and he still liked me that way.
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It began with a preachy speech in Ghana early in his Presidency, in which he called on African youth to succeed where their parents had failed.
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The Museum of Capitalism isn't outright preachy, but when it holds up these features of our society to a microscope, they can seem odd and often unethical.
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It could be sterile or it could be angry or it could be preachy or it could be cold, but this is how we all experience it.
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Political rappers and rap groups don't always age well; they can be corny or preachy, and they often feature messy politics that compromise their messages of revolution.
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Le Guin had a lot to tell us about ourselves — and even though her later books became a little preachy, every word of the sermon rang true.
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Stark but not preachy, Goat offers some understanding of why pledges would want to join, but also depicts dire consequences of hazing for one would-be brother.
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Much like The Melvins, Gaika's music is also heavily political while at the same time rejecting the overt, often preachy political statements of many of his peers.
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Most of Mr. Gerstein's books wrestled in some way with questions about human behavior that worked themselves out through storytelling, though they were never preachy or saccharine.
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Powerful without being preachy, her language has a rhythmic pulse filled with humor, wonder and insight, much of it illuminating an inner life beyond a hard exterior.
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Some overtly political art suffers from prioritizing its message above its visual impact and, as a result, risks feeling preachy or gimmicky, socially conscious but aesthetically flaccid.
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While his supporters may see this as further evidence of his brilliance, for some voters not yet on Team Cruz, his delivery can sound over-rehearsed and preachy.
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The script, written by Carpenter under the pseudonym Frank Armitage—also the name of co-star Keith David's character in the film—is on-the-nose and preachy.
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That tone, and that balance… You've got characters talking about the meaning of life, and God, and all that stuff which could be really preachy and navel-gazing.
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Bernstein analyst Andrew Wood said some investors were irked by what they considered a "preachy" style but added that Polman had a strong record over the past decade.
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Don't be dissuaded by the fact that it's vegan: Nussbacher prefers the term "plant-based," and it's one of the least preachy meat-free joints you'll ever visit.
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It's easy for a show to get too preachy when it tackles racism and classism, especially if it's trying to compensate for a history of ignoring those issues.
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Some right-wing Jewish protesters campaigned for her to be denied an Oscar, but she won anyway, and she let fly the mother of all preachy Oscar speeches.
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And without being preachy, it extols the virtues of learning to get along with people unlike yourself, surely a good lesson for anyone in the business of politics.
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If, however, you can tune out even a little of the background noise, you'll find an immersive, empathetic film that speaks the language of tolerance without getting preachy.
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It's a different type of fulfillment to watch young artists who have it all in front of them – and to impart what I know without being parental or preachy.
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His anarchic sense of joy is what's missing from his imitators in political comedy today, those who tend to come off preachy or dour—two things Carlin never was.
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Filled with handwritten notes and underlined sentences, "Heart Talk" reads more like a user guide for a vague set of life's hardships than as anything too preachy or precious.
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The esteemed creator of "Strega Nona," who has practiced meditation for years, has made this beautifully spare picture book that teaches mindfulness to children in a non-preachy way.
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From the document:Who we are: Confident, motivating, empowering, modernWho we are not: Goofy, Preachy, Cultish, Over-the-topPerhaps words like "empowering" and "modern" mean different things to different people.
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None of them could be called "preachy" or classified as conventional "issue documentaries" — they're more interested in showing you the world than telling you what to think about it.
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In recent years, she had zoomed to the realm of demigods hellbent on doing good, like Bono, and, combined with the continued devotion to kabbalah, she had become preachy.
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But forgive me — it's also a lot more fun than yet another dark, "biting" critique of smartphone culture, wherein the takeaway is consistently something preachy about narcissism and deadened nerves.
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I just couldn't find a way in, and it's such a difficult thing to write about without being too sentimental, or too preachy, or too heavy-handed, or too oblique.
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Featuring J. Cole and Bas along with the Spill crew, it's the perfect showcase of the group's versatility and ability to make super clever ideas resonate without ever sounding preachy.
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The play, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, has its preachy aspects, but it speaks movingly to conflicts that (spoiler alert, ha-ha) continue to roil the Middle East today (2:00).
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I found myself more intrigued with Patrick's life than with his friends' preachy lectures on the historical magnitude of gay marriage or the lonesomeness of being an older gay man.
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But teens and young adults aren't going to stop experimenting with drugs and alcohol, and at least the internet informed me of the real dangers in a way that wasn't preachy.
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Meaghan O'Connell didn't plan to get pregnant in her twenties, but when she did, she found herself feeling alienated from the prevailing narratives about motherhood — sentimental, often preachy, and never doubtful.
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Certainly Valerian feels like it's treading the same dangerous path as John Carter or Jupiter Ascending ... though it seems to be arcing toward something more like Avatar, without the preachy plot.
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Surrounded by a large crowd of spectators, the two actors made their quarrel immediate and plausible, and the sharp, quick-witted dialogue laid out the moral stakes without ever being preachy.
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It is a series that has shown, consistently and without much fanfare, how to illuminate deaf culture — and, by extension, any other that faces impairments — without being condescending, sensationalizing or preachy.
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Without ever being preachy or dull, Arrival dares to put academic research at the center of a blockbuster, and it unfolds as the most thoughtful sci-fi story of the decade.
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The final scene, in which they reunite for a sad affair 20 years later, undoes the work of making Marianne her own person — a beautiful, feminist arc that never feels preachy.
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Here's a loose theory: "stoners love 'intellectual' rap (hiiii Immortal Technique)," and J Cole is our generation's Immortal Technique, but with preachy advice about shallow women rather than the New World Order.
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For that reason, Mackenzie's film is quietly gathering momentum headed into the awards race; like Spotlight, it's not showy or preachy or over-acted, nor is it reaching beyond its thematic scope.
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" And Mr. Schur said he has ideas about ethics that he wants to explore in "The Good Place," including living life in a "self-sacrificing, empathetic way without being preachy or soapboxy.
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With the Montague episode [a debate over race and gender on a Charlie Rose-like talk show], we were just trying to show a real thing, and it wasn't about being preachy.
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I thought it would be wishy-washy, preachy and individualized, and my reaction would be, 'Oh, great, your life turned out amazing, but I don't know what to do with this information.
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For Mr. Knightley, Emma's neighbor, voice of reason and love interest, she wanted someone sexy and a little bit dangerous rather than pedantic and preachy, as the character can too often seem.
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The moment encapsulates a central challenge: to explore the repercussions of a business dependent upon the sale of the flesh through storytelling that never slips into preachy puritanism or flat-out pornography.
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Although the film's second act begins to border on preachy cliché, its glittery-yet-goofy approach to presenting a difficult topic to an adolescent audience manages to stay both entertaining and enlightening.
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It was our job as teachers to keep the conversation strictly nongendered, and to sneak consent-based content into the material in a way that did not feel preachy, didactic, or off-topic.
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The show still grappled with social issues—it has to, it's set in a police precinct with a captain who is black and gay—but it does so without being preachy or serious.
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That's still the template, but what was quirky and entertaining then — with Richard Kramer, a "Thirtysomething" veteran, on board as a writer and executive producer — is draggy, preachy and a little morbid now.
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The United States, of course, also employs cultural diplomacy through a program run out of the State Department whose preachy use of the Voice of America during the Cold War is well established.
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" Ann Richards and her longtime companion, the revered Texas writer Bud Shrake, also rest there — Richards leaving behind some preachy words about fairness, Shrake taking the more direct route: "So Far, So Bueno.
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When I first saw Franklin perform live, last spring, at the newly renovated Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, he stood at center stage, spotlit, rasping out preachy interjections whenever his singers paused for breath.
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So can you have a main character that people love ,and can you do it in a way that doesn't glamorize [suicide] at all, that actually says 'Not a good idea,' without being preachy?
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In its first season alone -- only six episodes -- Carmichael tackled everything from racial profiling to gun control with a sharp humor that felt more perspective-giving than preachy, which is not easy to do.
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But we also have to ask why we aren't telling more stories that don't reflect this value system, that actively challenge capitalist greed, patriarchy, racism, homophobia, and other prejudices without becoming preachy and didactic.
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It arrives in the U.S.—it was co-produced by BBC2 and Netflix—on a wave of criticism from the British conservative press, which interpreted its treatment of Europe's refugee crisis as preachy leftism.
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Over three seasons, it has tackled the coming out of strongly feminist Latina teenager Elena, chronicled war vet Penelope's PTSD and her landlord Schneider's alcoholism in a way that isn't preachy but gets real.
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Based on the startling true story of Mike's renunciation of the Klan (and the resulting tussle for ownership of the museum), Andrew Heckler's film debut is often preachy and overripe with white-power symbolism.
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Amazingly, given that it was written by a famously sleazy politician and an airport thriller author, The President Is Missing actually isn't racy enough and too preachy to be as fun as it could be.
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Yes, there's something terribly wrong in the prescription drug world, but when Mr. Bell reaches his preachy conclusions about Americans' reluctance to tolerate pain and take personal responsibility, you just want him to shut up.
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It's just a pop song about how the dude wants some space, but it's delivered with a preachy self-seriousness that imagines its subject matter is as important as that of a Kendrick Lamar song.
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But maybe the most well-known is "A New Leaf," a weed-centric episode that simultaneously encouraged drug experimentation, worked as an anti-drug episode, and provided an accurate parody of preachy anti-drug episodes.
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In fact, I am rarely preachy about this kind of thing, and I love a grocery store much more than I like a farmers' market, but I think they are out of the question anywhere.
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Yes, the series sometimes grows a bit preachy: This installment, like its predecessors, tends to indulge in extended scenes whose dialogue can sound as if it were from a PBS documentary or a newspaper exposé.
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The need for law enforcement officials to be perpetually intervening to safeguard Trump's personal financial interests will dramatize the corrupt nature of the setup in a more profound way than any number of preachy ethics documents.
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This is a comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it's also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work, never self-righteous or preachy.
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Treaty negotiations at the U.N. are usually abstract and alienating, but the pop-up museum swapped preachy politics for the personal—and threw into sharp relief what is truly at stake with the global drug war.
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Hannah Montana: The Movie, a musical comedy about a teen superstar who grapples with fame and discovers her family's Southern roots, might be the purest movie in cinema history—it's sweet and wholesome without being preachy.
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Both "Nip/Tuck" and "Glee" ran for multiple seasons, and had intense fan bases, but they also flew off the rails: "Nip/Tuck" became a Grand Guignol in its twists; "Glee" got preachy and self-indulgent.
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Not to get all preachy, but going out to vote today might be seen as a chance not only to cast a ballot for a candidate but also to boost the health of our democracy. 7.
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His lyrics are full of meaningless imagery — the beginning of "Light Tunnels," the image of him zipping up his parka in "White Privilege II." And when he does say something meaningful, it's too obvious, bordering on preachy.
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It's not polemical, it's not trying to tell you how to think, it's not preachy or political—it's just trying to tell this very specific story that is about is about this Pakistani man and his family.
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At a coffee shop, a preachy Republican acquaintance I mostly try to avoid chortled as he lectured me about how Ms. Pelosi was handing Mr. Trump victory in 2020 and that all the Democrats have left is grandstanding.
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"Real Friends" is too busy being fresh and funny to be preachy, but Hale does end her author's note with an earnest hope for her readers: "If you haven't found your 'group' yet, hang in there," she counsels.
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No surprise then that the largest private school networks in the country were the Catholic, Lutheran, and Jewish school systems, as all three groups found preachy Yankee Congregationalists, pietistic Methodist teetotalers, and brimstone-bearing Baptists kind of annoying.
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It's a brilliant use of the medium and carries with it a strong message — that there is a waste crisis and it's happening not just in Australia but everywhere around the world — but delivers it without sounding too preachy.
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It's an ungainly, overlong film, dull and preachy, with embarrassing dialogue and too many monologues — and I say that as someone who thinks that Snowden's revelations brought important and much-needed transparency to worrisomely broad and unchecked surveillance practices.
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The play is both a thoughtful (if sometimes preachy) exploration of mankind's seeming inability to shed itself of culturally embedded prejudices, and a savory drama about orphaned children and relationships from the past that have ramifications in the present.
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Not to get too preachy or hard line, but this old 'destroy yourself, and be better for it' ideology—whether injected into the framework of nightlife or pop and youth culture—is really about folks capitalizing off of illness.
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There are still some design quirks I don't love, especially regarding how search works, some of the reply/forward mechanics and the occasional beta bugginess, but it seems to help me be healthier about email without feeling too preachy.
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The one-person project has counted eight releases since 2009, and the latest sticks to Book of Sand's stated themes (anti-racism, feminism, veganism) without feeling preachy, falling back on rote audio samples, or sacrificing an iota of intensity.
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Part of that is due to how snarky the show's humor can be, easily lending itself to memes; but another part of it is due to how the show's messages are never preachy, even as they go beyond surface-level treatment.
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And although Quezada is aware of the benefits an insect diet could have for the global population (he tells me that a Mexican university is currently looking into cockroach flour as an alternative bread ingredient) he isn't preachy about bugs.
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The critical move and the preachy criticism of Spec Ops: The Line in 2012 asked players to look in the mirror and investigate why they were playing these games that were marketed to them and that they paid money for.
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As much as it's filled with images of dejection, the album always resists the sort of preachy, generational hand-wringing of a Sun Kil Moon or Father John Misty record to look back on difficult times as forgivingly as possible.
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"He didn't talk a lot, but when he did, it was about his beliefs," and was at times "a little preachy," said Myranda Thompson, a Columbus State student who was Mr. Artan's partner for a project in a sociology class.
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The tone is still roughly where it needs to be, but I think particularly in the backmatter, but a little bit in the story as well, we started to get a little preachy, and I don't want to do that.
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I want to make music that I want to dance to and I want to perform to, but I also want to feel like I said what I wanted to say about this issue, but in a way that isn't preachy.
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I don't like these sorts of preachy posts but I thought these three examples – the bad, the good, and the ugly, as it were – are good indications of how we all should treat the information we deal with on a daily basis.
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A couple caveats: I ruled out any aliens where we've only ever seen one of them (so long, insufferably preachy Klatuu from The Day the Earth Stood Still) or only seen them in silhouette (as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
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Not only did it bat away the treacly, preachy conventional wisdom about how "every child needs a father" by putting it in the mouth of the dissolute, pathetic Dill, it belied it with an episode showing how women show up for each other.
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It doesn't come off as preachy because few are more skilled at delivering such messages as Jayda G, all the heavenly vocal house and insistently shuffling drum programs that follow, make it so you basically have no choice but to follow her directives.
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Conrad has big ideas on his mind, about how capitalism squeezes people dry and how modern American Christianity aids and abets it, but he's so good at crafting sharp plot turns and dreamy images that Perpetual Grace LTD never feels didactic or preachy.
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It's not overly preachy about wealth disparity and financial exploitation, but some of its emotional story moments stand out: a group of Belter tenants forced out of their home coughing because their landlord wasn't changing their air filters, or desperate Belters siphoning water out of Ceres' system.
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But Jane succeeds precisely because of its contradictions — the show's playful tone and perfectly calibrated characters make it easy to justify just about any plot twist, while also enabling the series to comment on important social issues including abortion, immigration and religion without being preachy or saccharine.
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No amount of preachy veganism will help cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius so long as a Big Mac is still the cheapest, fastest thing someone can grab between shifts at different minimum-wage jobs, served up by people who themselves are working for poverty wages.
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" This leads to the cleverest moment of the episode—specifically, when Robbie breaks the fourth wall to address the audience about the perils of drugs but veers in an unexpected direction: "Drugs ruin lives, divide families, and lead to heavy-handed preachy sitcom episodes like this one.
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In that way and others, the book is like C.S. Lewis's Narnia series: not blatantly preachy or too ponderously allegorical but integrating long quotations from the Bible and Christian theology into a story that still works whether or not you pick up on the Christian context.
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Despite its grab bag of serious subject matter, like the best of Lear's work, the new One Day at a Time never feels preachy or didactic — it's always funny, first and foremost, thanks to deft writing and skilled performers like Machado and Rita Moreno (who plays her mother).
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I don't mean to sound like a d— — or preachy but this is nuts: how is it, that grown professional people in a major American city have never seen a grocery basket full of normal and healthy foods that just all happen to be green or not processed.
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The resulting adaptation isn't perfect; its weakest moments come when Flanagan and his co-writer Jeff Howard step away from the original King story and get preachy about men controlling women, or water down an already basic look at BDSM and female empowerment into something even more oversimplified.
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But uniting all these ideas is a commitment to forthrightly leftist politics, and when I spoke to director Boots Riley for the latest episode of my podcast, I Think You're Interesting, I wanted to ask him about how he combined them to make a funny, entertaining, never preachy movie.
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Though not all the pets in these books pass away — one is unjustly separated from its young owner, and another apparently goes missing without, it turns out, ever existing — all of the stories dip a pinkie toe into the emotional pool of loss without being morose or preachy.
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It's also smartly written, funny and full of heart, thanks in no small part to the glowing performance of Gina Rodriguez as Jane, a young woman who has decided to save her virginity for marriage (don't worry, it's not preachy) but ends up pregnant thanks to an artificial insemination accident.
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" As the art historian Robert Storr writes in an essay in the exhibition publication, the history of the African diaspora "is profoundly ingrained or, more accurately, meticulously bundled by the artist into much if not all of his work, without the artist or the work ever become preachy or 'teachy.
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Fundamentally different from the preachy-and-useless books from media critics and "—for Dummies" style how-to books, Confessions of a Media Hit Man is not only an instructional manual for mastering the wild world of social media but an honest warning of the dangers—written by someone who has personally been there.
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My choreographer and creative director were like, "There should be three of me" because we don't want it to be a big, crazy music video that's too preachy — we just want to let the song sing for itself and be cute and let them know, with a wink, we have a message here.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE offers racial understanding, but in a preachy tone that has tended to turn off millennials, especially African American millennials.
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Still, let us not gloss over the bad, which, as this show goes, is very bad: We get yet another episode of Buffy moping over terrible Parker, the introduction of the odious she-werewolf Veruca, and a very silly, very preachy story about the awfulness of college students drinking beer (oh, the horror).
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I think our guest on that episode, comedian Stephen Phillips-Horst, made a really good point, that it's almost the perfect story because it gives people on the right a chance to be outraged about the content of her jokes and people on the left get to do a preachy free speech to power thing.
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It's the kind of movie the Academy has rewarded in other forms numerous times, going all the way back to 1947's anti-Semitism awareness drama Gentleman's Agreement, which won three Oscars — including Best Picture — for its somewhat preachy premise of a journalist pretending to be Jewish to see if people treat him worse.
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Whether it was the juvenile assault on President Trump's hairstyle by haircare company It's a 85033, the hysterically preachy ad by 84 Lumber, or the maudlin and disgustingly dishonest missive on gender equality from Audi, this year's Super Bowl ads managed to be both a thumb in their viewers' eyes and a middle finger toward their viewers' politics.
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" In the publication accompanying Mr. Puryear's solo show at London's Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, the art historian Robert Storr wrote that the history of the African diaspora "is profoundly ingrained or, more accurately, meticulously bundled by the artist into much if not all of his work, without the artist or the work ever become preachy or 'teachy.
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That it works comes down to the fact that nothing on The Good Place is done for shock value; at the risk of sounding preachy, it's all in service of a larger arc, as well as a reminder — whether you believe in the existence of a Good Place or not — to be good, even when it seems impossible.
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"The Ones Who Stay and Fight," which she describes as "pastiche of and reaction to [Ursula] Le Guin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,'" takes an already preachy story as its springboard — let no one pretend that the genre isn't soapbox-prone — to argue with both the past master and the rabble of reactionaries who have harried efforts to diversify science fiction.
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All told, "The Inheritance" is a seven-hour affair—nine, if you see it in one day, with a break for dinner—and, although I recommend the first half without reservation, it may not be worth your while, or your dollars, to return for the second, in which Lopez lets his fleet, funny sensibility settle into something regrettably more teachy and preachy.
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When he sticks to the blues he can conjure a suitably grand, lonesome tone, and he's neither as moony nor as preachy as faithful historical accuracy would mandate, but he suffers from preservationist's disease, failing to realize that different music can mean different things in different contexts and that what made the music he loves great wasn't a commitment to verities but a specific relationship with its own time.
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They have their flaws — that omniscient narrator occasionally adopts a tone that's too preachy, and McGuire's point-of-view characters are too frequently passengers in their own stories — but the central premise of the series (a hidden school in our world, meant to help heal and care for kids who've slipped into some other world, Narnia or Wonderland style) is so irresistible and the characters so well-drawn that these flaws become quibbles.
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Fittingly, this album's energetic, melodic, electronically orchestrated beats, overlaid with Logic's agile, shifty rapping, mildly please the ear when played in the background, while as for the overarching concept, well, here goes: Logic raps a variety of preachy lectures on the most pressing issues of our time, with topics including mental illness, religious salvation, how tragic race relations are in America (on many sides, even!) and how we should all just get along, and the magical, ineffable, infinitely complex nature of the universe.
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Here's a brief excerpt from my earlier recommendation of Perpetual Grace LTD, Epix's wildly twisty noir drama about a small-time criminal trying to rip off a pastor (played by Ben Kingsley!) and his wife: Co-creator Steve Conrad has big ideas on his mind, about how capitalism squeezes people dry and how modern American Christianity aids and abets it, but he's so good at crafting sharp plot turns and dreamy images that Perpetual Grace LTD never feels didactic or preachy.
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