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David Kuo, the onetime deputy director of President Bush's office of faith-based initiatives, says on his Beliefnet blog that John McCain's commercial ridiculing Barack Obama as "the One" is a slap at the long American tradition of black pulpiteering.
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"I abominate all this talk about great preaching -- I call it pulpiteering."
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Progress in religion until there's no longer a divine message from on high, no God in Israel; only a fashionable pulpiteering to minister to languid minds, the cultivation of foolish fads and the flaunting of fine feathers -- the church becoming a mere Vanity Fair or social clearing-house, a kind of esthetic forecourt to hades instead of the gate to heaven.
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Not his doctrine and not his deliberate pulpiteering make Bernard Shaw a vital influence in modern literature.
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I was dreadfully afraid he was going to laugh at me, it sounded so much like pulpiteering.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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This method of inversion is Nietzsche's main weapon: as earnest as any of our pulpiteering Puritans, he wears his morality inside out.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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This varied, agricultural life, specific set of experiences, cheerful personality, and wit makes Mr. Salatin uniquely qualified for such zealous pulpiteering on the topic of re-localizing our world.
Energy Bulletin - kristinsponsler 2010
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This varied, agricultural life, specific set of experiences, cheerful personality, and wit makes Mr. Salatin uniquely qualified for such zealous pulpiteering on the topic of re-localizing our world.
Energy Bulletin - kristinsponsler 2010
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This varied, agricultural life, specific set of experiences, cheerful personality, and wit makes Mr. Salatin uniquely qualified for such zealous pulpiteering on the topic of re-localizing our world.
Energy Bulletin - kristinsponsler 2010
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