Word: sermonized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sermon-like speeches that antagonized his enemies and mesmerized his followers, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide often described his movement as a lavalas, the Haitian term for a cleansing avalanche that will wash away tyranny and corruption. That image was particularly relevant last week, as a political lavalas carried the 37-year-old Roman Catholic priest to an overwhelming victory in Haiti's first truly democratic presidential elections...
...illness or murder, hovers over many of Spark's characters, but that does not make the author glum. Unlike Margaret, who is criticized by her husband for liking "art to have an exalted message whereas if there was anything he hated in art, as in life, it was a sermon," Spark seems to believe that the only sensible way to consider serious questions -- religion and guilt, insanity and illumination, free will and destiny -- is with lightly lethal humor...
...Victory! I've Got It. As impulse moves them, some of the worshipers dance across the aisles, while white-clad deaconesses stand ready to aid those overcome by emotion. "God is still in the miracle business," intones Bishop James O. Patterson Jr. during an hourlong sermon. The Church of God in Christ, with 3.7 million members, is the fastest growing black denomination -- in fact probably the fastest growing major denomination of any kind -- in America...
...encountered this prejudice against. Catholics. For me, Catholic politics meant Democrats and the Kennedy clan, hardly conservatives. In fact, the most impressive moment of my childhood was when Father Ken, a parish priest with tangled hair and a long beard that made him look like a hippie, gave a sermon on the 1980 New York City march for peace...
Since the publication of that essay -- or editorial or sermon -- the phrase has echoed down the decades. It was often questioned, ridiculed, attacked. When the Soviet Union emerged as a nuclear power, when communism spread across the map, when the U.S. was ignominiously defeated in Vietnam, many people decided that it could not really be the American Century, after all. But it was. The remaining decade is not likely to change that...