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As played by Robin Williams, Patch Adams is first an "insufferable, sermonizing medical student" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) and later an in-your-face clown-doctor with a bedpan on his head and squeaky balloon animals in his hands.
An ordained Baptist minister, he adores sermonizing about his seriousness of purpose.
At a 54-member meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Yeltsin decried the "sermonizing" by the West over his attack on the rebellious province of Chechnya.
George Will has written column after column sermonizing about First Amendment excesses, lecturing sternly about the difference between "speech" and "action," and ridiculing the idea that (for example) flag-burning sends a political message and therefore qualifies for First Amendment protection.