1. I became skilled in ignoring these cosmic threats and developed a callousness toward all metaphysical preachments.

2. People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. Kurt Vonnegut 

3. Convention Opens With Slugging to the Tune of “You G – D D – – – – D Jew!” and Continues to the Preachments and Applaudings of Theft as the Method of Expropriation of the Capitalist Class.

4. Five Years in a Life It is now five years of life under the Privacy Act, five years of these accountings to Parliament (and the country) on how its legislation is being observed; five years of alarums and preachments over the threats of the new information technologies usually in their benign guise of efficiency - to precious and vulnerable human values.