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
Trump reportedly pontificated about striking fentanyl labs inside Mexico during his first term.
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Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
Stearns didn’t even pontificate, between a healthy start by Max Scherzer and a healthy start by Jacob deGrom, about tenths of a percent of World Series odds in 2026 like Billy Eppler did in 2022.
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