How To Use Moralist In A Sentence

The writings of a great amoralist - a de Sade, a Stirner, a Nietzsche - can inspire a handful of murders in two centuries.
Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness. MACHIAVELLISM
Mr. Weber is not a moralist and does not claim that, by preferring Tchaikovsky to, say, the current-day atonalist Charles Wuorinen, we are philistines or reactionaries. That Melody Sounds Familiar
In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence. France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
I don't think it's "illegal" but it's moralistically incorrect.

But if lying is moralistically wrong, how can it ever be justified?
Hobbes is just one of many famous philosophers Berlin castigated in his lecture, but it is Hobbes's bleak and elemental philosophy that most conveniently sums up what Berlin and other moralists so revile. Was Democracy Just a Moment?
The professor rhetorically asked, "Does the redemptive-historical school regard his appeal to be 'atomistic' and moralistic?"
What is wrong is the inability to resist the temptation of delivering a moralistic little homily when someone does take out one of your seductively promoted loans.
One is the judge, an urbane amoralist like Jones in Conrad's novel, who is to preside over the registration of indigenous people to vote in a forthcoming election. The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx – review
Their analysis too often mingles management jargon, misapplied analogy, moralistic rhetoric, impatience and fear. Times, Sunday Times
Fear, fury, desire, shame -- the whole philosophy of the religious moralist is simply an abstraction, systematisation and indoctrination of emotional reactions as so-called moral principles. Duncan Does Deus
But the intent has always been moralistic: to provide stable and benevolent government.
The lecturer arose like an outraged moralist to repudiate the scandalous charge of libidinousness. An Anarchist Woman
She was not a rigorous old moralist, nor, perhaps, a very wholesome preceptress for youth. The Virginians
I´ve never read Solzenitsyn, but aside from his very important contribution in denouncing the barbarism of stalisnism, I will not consider him a real defefender of the cause for liberty…I mean, from his positions supporting big tzarist or neo tzarist-traditional orthodox russian Empire you know, Putin…And lets no even take aside his moralists outcry about the rol that supposedly religion has to play in public life and has made him the heroe of many in the right posted 13 September 2008 at 7:46 am Solzhenitsyn Saturday
If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgement require the motivation not present in the amoralist.
But if he wants to be so moralistic, shouldn't his ministers also behave morally?
Punic names were characteristically theophoric, and the Romanizing upper classes of North Africa typically assumed Latin names that retained the religious or moralistic connotations of the originals.
A search for the "sublime" in nature coexisted with ambitious historical subjects, slick moralistic storytelling and an emphasis on technological virtuosity. The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . .
Conservative moralists find in Freud a justification for a morality of restraint.
Mr. More is not, like Sainte-Beuve, primarily interested in psychology or in human beings; Mr. More is primarily a moralist, which is a worthy and serious thing to be. Imperfect Critics
In the moralistic accents of today's leaders we hear echoes of a previous generation's hypocrisy.
Delightful self-accountant reverence of author-craft! which wields full knowledge of a shaddock-tainted world, yet presents no licence to the prurient lad, reveals no trail to the suspicious moralist. Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
Who can, without respect and admiration, contemplate the sturdy integrity, and simple zeal with which this rustic moralist enforced his laudable though mistaken notions? who can help reflecting with some surprise upon the fact, that before he ceased to apothegmatise and advise his young friend against having anything to do with the actors he was actually the first who put him seriously in the notion of going directly upon the stage as a public actor? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
That dusty old English moralist John Milton loved to wax poetic about mankind's mad descension into hell.
Medved represents the uninformed and moralistic yokel given a bullhorn — in other words, a doofus for the doofuses to latch onto. Medved Denied His Meds : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
In The Moralists the steps of ascent are defined; from the admiration of beautiful objects we rise to the in - sight that it is art, the beautifying, which is beautiful; from the love of beautiful bodies we pass to the recog - nition that their beauty is founded not in the body qua body, but in a forming power (or inward form), in action and intelligence, i.e., in the mind. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
In their statement, they advocated "a nonacquisitive, inclusive, and decentralized spirituality, without rigid authoritarian hierarchies or controlling and moralistic dogma. Steven and Michael Meloan: Can the Commingling of Science and Spirituality be Transformative?
And so I think there's a lot of great progressive thinkers out there right now, but also there's some of the guys who are kind of old school and still worrying about fictitional characters being gay and pointing the fingers at people, and almost creating a moralistic club, you know, that you have to be very moral to be in our private country club. CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2006
I would call it moralist hysteria, I would call it religious myopia," she said. Reuters: Press Release
While signaling to the reader the fact that "every body" encompasses various degrees of numerousness, while signaling, that is, the fact that there are crowds Emma will join and crowds she won't, that passage likewise indexes Austen's participation in a project of social theory that had preoccupied the moralists of the previous century. Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union
Gide, being the moralist he is, otherwise pays heed only to the book's intent and not to its consequences.
What arose, in its place, is a kind of moralistic, paternalistic, reactionary culture in which undercover police arrest people for being drunk not for fighting or lewdness or driving drunk but simply for being drunk while sitting at the bar. Get Kinky for Texas Governor
It is the teachers 'fault; they set themselves up as moralists, and a moralist is a positive danger to any child. A Dominie in Doubt
No, that was an era full of bumptious government employees and crazed moralistic zealots forever threatening to incarcerate the peasantry, largely on some kind of trumped up charge or other.
I think that the Grimms' chief complaint about the 'Knaben Wunderhorn' collection was that Brentano, in particular, often invested the old poetry with a moralistic, even semireligious tone. Parsing Mahler's Poetic Songs
The satisfaction derived from this act was all that the most ardent moralist could have desired.
The apparently immoralist heroine gradually establishes, over the course of these central 150 pages, both the shallowness and the cost of purely physical gratifications.
As a consequence both clerical and secular moralists felt able to criticize fashion on the grounds of the supposed morality or immorality of clothing and personal adornment.
At the age of 48, and a celebrated actor as well as a dazzling filmmaker—I heard him described as the Chinese Marlon Brando—Mr. Jiang has the buoyancy of an absurdist, the edge of an ironist, the camouflaged instincts of a moralist and the limitless zest of an entertainer who, from the evidence on the screen, might feel as much of a kinship with Abbott and Costello as with Beckett or Buñuel. Bullets, Love and Beijing's Heavy Hand
The rise of environmental politics since the late 1960s directly stimulated historical scholarship, and gave the new environmental history an occasionally apocalyptic and moralistic tone.
So what if Avatar has a vapid lowest-common-denominator self-contradictory moralistic message? Will You Go See Avatar?
But also the moralist forgets that morality cannot be imposed or legislated or begotten by an act of will.
This honest moralist, who sets himself up as the exclusive depositary for revolutionary purity - everything that is not a part of his insignificance appears to him as mere arrivisme - was stung by the [editorial] note that we dedicated to him in I.S. #10 (page 72: ‘L' armee de reserve du spectacle ’).
This fabricated nonsense is just the type of untruth that paints the image of our office as being a moralistically hostile environment.
If the ascetic moralist was a quasi - mathematician, the casuist was a kind of medical man. CASUISTRY
So at the risk of being dragooned into the ranks of the lynch mob, I'll add that the simplest reason he inspires so much derision is that he dishes it out himself in spades with a supremely self satisfied and moralistic air.
He makes the telling point that the language of child protection offers one of the few ways our society has to restrict corporate behavior, even as it is invoked by moralists eager to impose their own ethical code on society as a whole.
The business of nitrochloromethane had peccary with unfirm to tucana the mavs moralist receptively into the bren and oddly to his avalokiteshvara. Rational Review
Make all the 'moralistic' complaints you want about how alcohol and drugs are bad for society; you fly in the face of evidence that the cure is indeed worse than the disease. Mommy Pact
Where, in our modern nations, shall we find a natural philosopher, a geometrician, a metaphysician, or even a moralist who has spoken well on the subject of poetry? A Philosophical Dictionary
Christians are perceived as anxious, moralistic, and judgmental.
He was not simply a writer, but in his later decades a moralist and philosopher who influenced, among others, Gandhi.
Stevenson, too, tends to run his characters into symbols -- his moralist-fabulist determinations are too much for him -- he would translate them into a kind of chessmen, moved or moving on Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial
Many cognitivists have not found this a persuasive characterization of all amoralists.
As might have been expected by anybody outside the blinkered world of health promotion, moralistic anti-smoking propaganda directed at adolescents has proved counterproductive.
‘She was a moralist and puritan who would consider the topic of sex a taboo,’ he said.
The great Denis Diderot, moralist and creator of the Encyclopédie, the bible of the French Enlightenment, went so far as to compose a remarkable piece of prose in which he fantasised a conversation with the girl.
Sounds like the 'moralistic' tactic failed, and badly so. "Quite damaging, wide-reaching, nefarious and mean-spirited."
As I had not been so well known as a moralist, and had not the prepossessing advantage of a bald, benevolent head, nothing was done for me, and I was turned once more on the wide world, to moralize on the vicissitudes of fortune. Paul Clifford — Complete
Some classical moralists debated whether such sins involving a priest consecrated both by ordination and by a vow of chastity constituted one or two sacrileges.
However, when you have to get ensnarled in a moralistic, holier than thou bandwagon, it gets a bit much and fringes on a type of hypocrisy which polarizes, becomes negative and one just wants to distance themselves from it. No mames!
Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic, precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required.
He became more aggressive and personal, more didactic, more accusatory, more moralistic.
And of these calm moralists, is there one, I wonder, whose heart would not throb with pleasure if he could be seen walking arm-inarm with a couple of dukes down Pall Mall? The Book of Snobs
You also might know that he was a defender of orthodoxy in a turbulent time and a stern moralist.
Just for a moment, even this amoralist was shown as a victim of something beyond merely his denials and hubris. Times, Sunday Times
However, the moral aspect of a victimizing behavior is quite different from the moral aspect of a victimless behavior (contrast libertarian and moralistic principles).
Any other director, saddled with such a self-evidently mediocre script, would simply churn out the kind of moralistic low-budget gangster pieces that thrived on the lower half of double-bills in the 40s. T-Men
Unlike the almsgivers of past times to whom suffering was suffering and to be alleviated however it had been incurred, these men are stern moralists.
January 6th, 2010 at 1: 55 am anonymous @291: Moralistic “my wang is bigger” contests don’t strike me as the highest of pursuits to aspire to either. Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate
If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgment require the motivation not present in the amoralist. Boys in White Suits
What an amoralist expresses when she makes a moral claim that she is disinclined to honor involves using the moral predicate in an “inverted commas sense” ” a sense which alludes to the value judgments of others without itself expressing such a judgment (Hare 1952, 145 “ 6). Boys in White Suits
His colleagues take him for a moralistic prig, but we sense powerful appetites, and honesty that is less an emanation of virtue than a stay against chaos.
If morality were to require this of us, then we should, and would, be amoralists.
It is their freedom from the traditional literary, anecdotal, or moralistic associations of painting that has caused him to be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern art.
But donning the robes of the moralist presents problems of its own, notably the problem of Presentism, that is judging historical figures by contemporary moral standards.
One longstanding objection to the theory is that it has no way of motivating the amoralist to adhere to the demands of morality. Personal Identity and Ethics
All these moralistic pathologies are likely to impinge on individual liberty and economic efficiency.
He was a moralist deeply suspicious of how moralism is used.
Third, moral philosophers and moralists in the wake of eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms have insisted that we human beings have a duty to aid fellow humans in need, regardless of their citizenship status.
He does not stoop to deny the charge against the president, instead he points out the signifier of the true moralist: the man who tears up the constitution when politically expedient.
Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative. Chapter 29
Middle-class moralists might be ardent, even strident, but working-class patterns continued to be remarkably resistant and independent.
He gave them a brief history of his culture and explained his heritage before telling traditional native stories, complete with moralistic values.
The romantics are moralistic, rebellious against the perceived dominant power, and combative against any who appear to stray from the true path.
I imagine many so-called moralists are secretly jealous of teens engaged in pleasure, as opposed to any serious moral valuation they may hold.
Again and again Dinitak revealed himself as the ferocious moralist that he was. KING OF DREAMS
Reason article in 1983, to examine how certain types of government regulations come into being, particularly what I would call moralistic regulation. Positive Liberty
The Renaissance produced a pleiad of distinguished poets, historians, critics, antiquaries, theologians, and moralists which made the sixteenth century a golden age. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
As poet and critic, philosopher and moralist and metaphysician, he to some extent invented those new, difficult and radical criteria by which we have learned to judge work like his own.
If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgment require the motivation not present in the amoralist. Boys in White Suits
But we can assume that the amoralist is at least prudentially rational. Personal Identity and Ethics
It has been characteristic of the French tradition of moralists that they are observers, reporting elegantly on the perennial human condition.
He berates moralistic critics of ‘consumerism’ who evade that nettlesome matter of ‘the ownership and organization of production.’
And since their version of the immoralist position departs in significant ways from its inspiration, it would be somewhat misleading to treat the Republic as a whole as a response to Thrasymachus.
An 1890 article in The New York Times debated the ethics of tipping porters: Tipping is objected to by austere and frugal American moralists upon the ground that it undermines the manhood and self-respect of the tippee. Last Pullman Porters Wanted «
Life has been hard on successive waves of poets who believed, before the 1960s, that they were demotic, non-moralistic, empirical, technophile, modern, etc.
Petition: Shame on the so called moralistic people from the Sri Ram sena! Rediff.com
Researchers have found evidence of self-protective retaliation, or revenge, and third-party, or "moralistic," punishment in many of nature's diverse niches. Michael E. McCullough: The Revenge Instinct and the Bailout Package
Upshire was no moralist, facts were his business, and the apprehension of criminals his bread-and-butter. A WORM OF DOUBT
The balance of power never suited the more universalistic, moralist spirit of the late twentieth century.
One problem with absolutism about honesty is that it drives the moralist into a kind of dishonesty of her own.
You know: not all moral people are moralists, nor all moralists moralistic.
I could be an atheist and an amoralist, but I still calculate that doing business with a churchgoer is to my advantage. Trust Cues, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Having inflexible, overly moralistic policies for dealing with those who deal in drugs may be unrealistic in this environment if there are other priorities.
Nietzsche does not investigate these matters of nomenclature, but when he is condemning morality or kinds of morality, and when he is calling himself an immoralist, he has the purpose and point of life in mind.
But those who have spoored him across the country on his speaking engagements say he is a deeply moralistic man who feels strongly about principles and public conduct.
But then I began to feel rather like a character in one of those moralistic cartoons - a man who has a mischievous imp on one shoulder and a self-righteous angel on the other.
I am very concerned about moral issues but I hope in a non - moralistic way.
He had left Sydney fourteen years ago with almost $500,000 as his share of the - well, call it scam, if you want to be moralistic. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
The media moralist and TV frontman has a long track record of preaching about the evils of child abuse and individual irresponsibility.
The profane love of woman presented itself to my fancy, clothed, not only with all its own charms, but with the sovereign and almost irresistible charms of the most dangerous of all temptationof that which the moralists call virginal temptationwhen the mind, not yet undeceived by experience and by sin, pictures to itself in the transports of love a supreme and ineffable delight immeasurable superior to all reality. IX. Part II.—Paralipomena
Will the aging boomer libertines and the sexual moralists in the party be able to get along?
Nay, not so glum, ye moralists and satirists, philanthropists and preachers; link hands all -- _ducdame, ducdame! Without Prejudice
I address myself not to the young enthusiast only, but to the ardent devotee of truth and virtue the pure and passionate moralist yet unvitiated by the contagion of the world.
The text offered a curious blend of scientific background and moralistic anthropomorphism.
Now the history of Lutheran salvation by faith, of methodistic conversions, and of what I call the mind-cure movement seems to prove the existence of numerous persons in whom -- at any rate at a certain stage in their development -- a change of character for the better, so far from being facilitated by the rules laid down by official moralists, will take place all the more successfully if those rules be exactly reversed. The Varieties of Religious Experience
In sum, his position represents the immoralist challenge in a fully developed but streamlined form, as reducible to a simple question: given the conventional character of justice and our own pleonectic nature, why should any one of us be just, in any context in which injustice would be profitable? Callicles and Thrasymachus
Whatever their true motivations, there can be little doubt that the company is adopting an increasingly moralistic stance toward its customers, and internet users in general.
Moralists who find acknowledging or exploiting racism under any circumstances unpalatable should consider the long-term ramification of Obama's election on American political inclusiveness. Small Steps, Big Change
Yet as Muller notes, the disjunction between intentions and outcomes ‘continues to make moralists queasy’.
Despite all the hundreds of alcoholics he intensively twelve-stepped, despite earnest prayer and moralistic self-examination, his obsession with alcohol was not lifted.
Again and again Dinitak revealed himself as the ferocious moralist that he was. KING OF DREAMS
The subject of Hitler makes moralists of us all ” moralists with a facility that is perhaps the last of the corruptions which is Hitler's legacy. Syberberg's 'Hitler'
Ah, the sledgehammer irony of the truly depraved wingnut amoralist. Me and Bella.
Fortunately, the message couched within the narrative is neither excessively moralistic nor priggish.
It's such a fascinating world and as soon as people can stop thinking of the Victorians as stuffy moralists then they can see that they were very sensual and rich.
I detest any attempt to sell science for political or moralistic ends.
Remember, that _if you have injured me_ in aught, this forgiveness is something; and that, if I have _injured you_, it is something more still, if it be true, as the moralists say, that the most offending are the least forgiving. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
More orthodox moralists had always been prepared to consider the suggestion that hypocrisy might be used as a short cut to glory, but had always gone on to rule out any such possibility.
If you think atheists are all miserable, nihilistic amoralists, this book should put you straight.
I imagine many so-called moralists are secretly jealous of teens engaged in pleasure, as opposed to any serious moral valuation they may hold.
More complex versions of non-cognitivism can make the connection with actual motivation looser and thereby withstand the amoralist challenge. Boys in White Suits
We need to have more debate and action about the real issues rather than another moralistic and ultimately fruitless debate.
One in particular who referred to a 'moralistic' view as being 'blinkered'. BBC Ouch Blog
The president-elect of the Christian Coalition announced Tuesday that he was stepping down, saying that the religious group appeared to balk at his proposals to focus on environmental and anti-poverty issues rather than on purely "moralistic" issues such as abortion. Evangelical Church Defends Obama Invitation
Bahaha, the republican moralist is making fun of others being elitist? Think Progress » O’Reilly Says CAP Is “A Very Well-Oiled, Effective Character Assassination Machine”
I realized that this self-abasement or internalized moralistic rebuke was what I had been writing about from the very beginning.
He is the moralist for whom, in the religious life, morality counts as everything.
Even when these are matters of personal choice, moralistic healthism is inappropriate. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore
Fear, fury, desire, shame -- the whole philosophy of the religious moralist is simply an abstraction, systematisation and indoctrination of emotional reactions as so-called moral principles. Duncan Does Deus
Fiorenza (1906), in which the moralist Savonarola and the aestheticist Lorenzo di Medici appear as irreconcilable enemies, the gap is opened anew. Nobel Prize in Literature 1929 - Presentation Speech
The moralist is the writer who has a "moral design" on literature -- who sees it as an forum for moral discourse more than as an aesthetic form -- or who wishes to create a moral "design" in works of fiction or poetry in the guise of, or in substitution for, aesthetic design. John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
Northerner observed this injunction by robbing the slave-owner and stealing away the slave -- all in the name and for the greater glory of God! Singularly enough, the parents of these moralists -- who teach the negro the unapostolic christianity of stealing himself -- were those who stole from their homes, and sold for the highest penny, the Angola ancestors of our present slaves. Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,
He handed Eleanor's book to a moralistic old bag he had once done a writing workshop with.
Any effort to exorcise these tendencies from the outside is, therefore, futile; it only gives rise to moralistic sermons and rhetorical jeremiads.
The Economist has concerns about "the ethics and realpolitik of assassination," yet the lack of any significant international criticism of the operation against OBL's compound flies in the face of any legalistic or moralistic concerns and demonstrates that we are de facto conforming to the principle of verum esse ipsum factum Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744. Amir Madani: How to Bring Jihadist Fundamentalism to Its End
We need practical approaches to preventing teen pregnancies, not moralistic ones.
What prompts Marie Antoinette's transformation from callow moralist and pliant dauphine in early chapters to empathic mother and brave stoic in the novel's culmination at the Conciergerie? Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund: Questions
His talent lies in navigating thornier moralistic hinterlands.
“He is known by fifty names,” said Mr Monckton; “his friends call him the moralist; the young ladies, the crazy-man; the macaronies, the bore; in short, he is called by any and every name but his own.” Cecilia
The reign of the moralist is the reign of the mob, or of some Jack-in-office. Later Articles and Reviews
If the writer has not "moralized," it was because the true life, seen with the living eye, is better than any precept, however skilfully it may be dressed by the rhetorical genius of the moralist. Work and Win or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise
It offended moralists because of its unashamed exploitation of the naked female body, but it was also playful, innovative and funny, spoofing sexuality and celebrating female independence.
Another stern moralist reproved the colonists for writing to England "for cut work coifes, for deep stammel dyes," to be sent to them in America. Home Life in Colonial Days
The gnostic pleroma he places before us is all-consuming not only because it may in some sense be needed (as the moralist's battlefield), but also, like all good prose, because it must patiently describe and endure.
Along with privilege and education, leisure brings choices, including those deemed by moralists to be evil or corrupt.
Schiller inherited Kant's philosophical thought of anthropologic ontology that took free will as the core and established his moralistic view of tragedy.
Of all the Greek moralists, Aristotle provides the most psychologically insightful account of virtuous character.
Education, the most important activity of the social organism, has become rigid, moralistic, authoritarian. THE DISPOSSESSED
Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic, precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required.
But Jaffa is writing about Shakespeare, in part, to make a now quite familiar point about the degeneration of modern culture and the collapse of the novelist as moralist. Classics of Confusion
It's great that this polyglottal octogenarian can still put the wind up blowhard moralists.
This is a guy who almost certainly has hordes of groupies attending his every whim, but here he is getting all moralistic.
Moralistic “my wang is bigger” contests don’t strike me as the highest of pursuits to aspire to either. Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate
It has the ring of casuistry, of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner.
Bards endured an arduous and long apprenticeship in the strict metres of Welsh poetry; their function, as with most pre-literate or partly-literate societies, was to be its remembrancers, its legitimisers and its moralists.
The most famous legal moralist is Patrick Devlin, who argues that a shared morality is essential to the existence of a society.
Added to the punctilio of the martinet was the rigor of the moralist. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
Mind you, he won't have any truck with the movement these days. He's what you might call a moralist. CONFESSIONAL
The series does not deploy these themes didactically or even moralistically. What Girls Want
Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic, precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required.
'The fashionable doctrine (says he) both of moralists and criticks in these times is, that virtue and happiness are constant concomitants; and it is regarded as a kind of dramatick impiety to maintain that virtue should not be rewarded, nor vice punished in the last scene of the last act of every tragedy. Life Of Johnson
An older sister, Sophie, had died aged six months but throughout Aldiss's childhood she was held up as a paragon of childlike virtue, a moralistic ghost hovering over him.
It is enough to make even the boldest immoralist, male or female, doubt the dissidence of such aesthetic pleasures when so evidently an epistemological closet for other desires.
Oh, but listen, to be driven crazy by that kind of moralistic scolding you'd have to be crazy already. THE DISPOSSESSED
The religious mind, however, hubristically appropriates the blind happenings of physics for petty moralistic purposes. Times, Sunday Times
I'd lay bets that her upbringing was rigid and moralistic.
The sort of self-interested challenge that Mill identifies at the beginning (III 1) is usually part of an amoralist challenge to the authority of other-regarding morality. Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy
And I confess, all political affiliations aside, the President's slow, studied attempts at sincerity and moralistic homilies make my teeth ache.
The latter is a moralistic bore who puts intellectual curiosity second to her desire to pontificate.
Although we may willfully turn away from what we conceive as good, that is an unnatural action; Augustine has nothing to say here to the immoralist or the debauchee.
They're fun, they're violent, and they have a moralistic narrative frame that makes them palatable to most political persuasions.
Some readers may give them a moralistic spin, arguing that they prove something essential about gay men or homosexuality or promiscuity.
Hence it is hard to see why she would have wanted to play the Marquise de Merteuil, the elaborately deceitful antiheroine of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Christopher Hampton's "Masterpiece Theatre" - style stage version of Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 epistolary novel about a pair of aristocratic immoralists who make the fatal mistake of putting their heads in a noose of their own knotting. On Broadway, Bright Stars and Dim Casting
And those figurative ukiyo-e prints literally "of the floating world" of geisha, courtesans, prostitutes, and queer samaurai and kabuki actors beloved by the impressionists and their ilk as often as not chronicled the last gasp of indigenous pan-sexuality that moralistic Western states demanded the Japanese purge themselves of in order to benefit from their much-needed trade. G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture
The nineteenth century temperance approach, which had inveighed against the dangers of alcohol itself, was now rejected as moralistic and unscientific and the focus of attention was, once again, on the disease of alcoholism.
It's so true to the scene that it almost feels like a documentary and comes devoid of moralistic sideswipes: there are no evil dealers or manipulative promoters, no troublemakers showing up with guns or deaths from overdoses.
Evidently Mr Sidgwick/Hazlitt forgot which of his hats - the "legalist" or the "moralist" he was wearing when he inadvertently unmasked himself. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Some people think that evolutionary theory involves an attack on morals; what they really mean is that what they hear about evolutionary theory has a strong felt resemblance to an amoralistic worldview. Wisdom from Maurice Blondel; and the Analogical Leap
In passages such as these, his most distinctive, Thackeray comes perilously near abnegating his responsibility as a human being, let alone as a moralist or satirist.
For a moralist teaches us the anatomy of virtue and vice, helping us to see and understand what is at stake in particular judgments and practices.
But a level-headed consideration of practicalities is in order, not a moralistic, “never forgive, never forget” crusade. Immigration
Approximately half the entry is on the Greek moralists Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
Mind you, he won't have any truck with the movement these days. He's what you might call a moralist. CONFESSIONAL
However, the results also tended to be amoralistic - with little concern for traditional issues of personal morality or social ethics. Futuristguy
Historians and moralists, for example, assess the responsibility of agents for the outcomes, political, social, economic or military of what they did or failed to do.
That the great are not as happy as they seem, that the external circumstances of fortune and rank do not constitute felicity, is asserted by every moralist; the historian can seldom, consistently with his dignity, pause to illustrate this truth, it is therefore to the biographer we must have recourse. Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale

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