hectoring

I read a lot of sermons while researching the novel, and it struck me that the amount of hectoring from the pulpit on the proper behavior of women probably reflected a widely held view that a lot of "improper" behavior was going on.

A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book 2010

Yet that's just why, tested against everyday life as most people experience it, the bulk of all this intellectual hectoring is inhumane rubbish — contemptuous of desires that aren't necessarily as unworthy or manipulated as charged.

Material Girl 2003

Yet that's just why, tested against everyday life as most people experience it, the bulk of all this intellectual hectoring is inhumane rubbish — contemptuous of desires that aren't necessarily as unworthy or manipulated as charged.

Material Girl 2003

Hector’s hectoring is a perfect argument for atheism. sd Says:

Matthew Yglesias » More on Pro-Life Incrementalism 2009

I wonder: Speaking solely in terms of presentation and the notion of hectoring, lecturing and shrillness, do the same people who find Hillary off-putting also find Ron Paul so?

"She seemed dogmatic, almost angry, like she was vicious..." Ann Althouse 2008

And, you know, it was weird to see Jughead kind of hectoring you about the evils of divorce and witchcraft and sex education.

Archie Meets His First Openly Gay Classmate 2010

And, you know, it was weird to see Jughead kind of hectoring you about the evils of divorce and witchcraft and sex education.

Archie Meets His First Openly Gay Classmate 2010

And, you know, it was weird to see Jughead kind of hectoring you about the evils of divorce and witchcraft and sex education.

Archie Meets His First Openly Gay Classmate 2010

What Crichton's worldview really amounts to is a kind of hectoring contrarianism that is increasingly targeted at America's know-it-alls, against the liberal elite, against the very type of expertise that had given him his professional cachet.

Ed Hamilton: Crichton vs. Crowley: Dinosaurs, Pedophiles, and The Cult of Expertise 2008

Any Catholic MP or MSP knows the Church's position on abortion, so the Cardinal's words can hardly be regarded as "hectoring".

Women 2008