How To Use Moralize In A Sentence

This was further compounded by the fact that Victorian children moved up to twenty corves per day, whilst being sick, malnourished and demoralised in many cases.
A comparatively low level of casualties can demoralize both individual military units and the entire army.
He also gets to brag to his base about that victory, even as he demoralizes conservative voters. The Real GOP Debt Choice
Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Adolf Hitler

Darfur is a place where "evil lives", so they have completely "moralized" the conflict and presented it as a struggle against evil. RaceWire
That is what happens when you poison your growth through letting others diminish, marginalize and demoralize you from reaching your potential.
Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
‘People are very demoralized and unhappy,’ a former administration official said.
Many opponents of the war were demoralised.
In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
But, privately, he confided to friends that he was demoralized, even tempted to quit.
While people may be sceptical about politicians who moralise, they are anxious to see them display integrity and principle.
Clearly, one of the objectives is to demoralize the enemy troops in any way they can.
Grimy wards, with paint peeling, dust gathering on windowsills and numerous unidentified stains, frighten patients and demoralise staff.
They performed in a responsible manner, and toward the defeated, demoralized Germans they were sensitive, caring and compassionate.
Producers demoralised by the lack of enthusiasm for hard news are looking to jump ship. Times, Sunday Times
[Footnote: If a student of philology were allowed to touch on such high matters as legislation, I would moralize on the word kiddle, meaning an illegal kind of weir used for fish-poaching, whence perhaps the surname The Romance of Names
They moralize that you can only win salvation and happiness in some other world, and then only by sacrificing your life in this one. NAKED EMPIRE
The troops were thoroughly demoralized by this set - back.
Out of what you call the despicable race of Negroes, debased, demoralized by two hundred years of slavery, 100,000 of them imported into the island within four years, unable to speak a dialect intelligible even to each other. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
He slapped old friends on the back and asked them if the stumps were coming away easily; he talked nonsense concerning labour and the inalienable rights of elephants to a long 'nooning'; and, wandering to and fro, thoroughly demoralized the garden till sundown, when he returned to his pickets for food. Life's Handicap
But, yet again, I failed miserably and came away feeling dejected, disheartened, deflated and demoralised.
A man who moralize is usually a hypocrite, and a women who moralize is invariably plain.
It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and demoralized.
But exemplary and dedicated teachers surrounded by incompetents will soon grow demoralized, and effective teachers will shun under-performing schools.
Anytime you can make those free throws it kind of demoralizes the other side because hopefully it pads your lead. Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines
Harried by constant fire and unsettled by the universal presence of landmines - the main cause of casualties - the Russian army has been thoroughly demoralised.
The changes over time would involve a lot of language freighted with moralized “pure” eating: organic, natural, no “toxins,” locally-grown, problems with “processing.” Thin is In « Awful Library Books
I would like to wish the Minister a speedy recovery from his recent bilious bout, where he seemed to be doing his utmost to demoralise rather than to uplift those who have been entrusted to his responsibility.
Instead, Pope's note to the passage moralizes Homer's sentiment.
But I may not stay here, where I came not to moralize with your wisdom, but simply to cool my resentment against that unwise Lady Fleming, which I think hath now somewhat abated, so that I shall endure her presence without any desire to damage either her curch or vasquine. The Abbot
Barton were by now completely demoralised and Malton put on an exhibition of skills which were of the highest order.
In principle, the steady drone of flat, slack sentences reproduces the demoralised world they depict, not the limits of the writer's talent.
Still they could not demoralize the Nuristanis, and the fight continued. KARA KUSH
Demoralised Huns held their hands up crying for mercy.
Each attack is designed to demoralize our people and divide us from one another.
Overconfidence in their chances of taking the demoralised Army side proved to be the downfall of the Navy men.
But instead of issuing forth to finish off the demoralized Japanese squadron the Russian ships remained safely in harbour.
Volunteering, visiting schools, traveling to government agencies to help remoralize employees, raising her adorable daughters; she's an incredible asset to Obama at a perilous time. Salon
His lawyer, Giovanni Gebbia, said that the 40-year-old priest from southern India was completely "demoralised" by his arrest Thursday and expressed concern about his client's mental health. PunjabNewsline News
They moralize that you can only win salvation and happiness in some other world, and then only by sacrificing your life in this one. NAKED EMPIRE
Clearly, one of the objectives is to demoralize the enemy troops in any way they can.
If we cannot appreciate our achievements we will become demoralised and unhappy.
Valencia did not look like champions and had arrived demoralised after a first league defeat last Sunday and a 5-1 walloping from Internazionale in Europe.
Staff are demoralised, not least because local councils have eroded library opening hours and consequently cut shift allowances.
It generally demoralizes and always impoverishes the Kanaka, deprives him of his citizenship, and depopulates the islands fitted to his home. Following the Equator
When Samantha discovered she was pregnant, she was totally demoralized. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Everyone knows on the contrary that men in authority -- be they emperors, ministers, governors, or police officers -- are always, simply from the possession of power, more liable to be demoralized, that is, to subordinate public interests to their personal aims than those who have not the power to do so. The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Instead, Comte sought to moralize one and all, a cure for humanity not for one class at the expense of another.
Dean is authentically awkward, authentically demoralized.
As a dramatist I hate to moralize.
Round the door of the Clifton House were about twenty ragged, vociferous drosky-drivers, of most demoralised appearance, all clamorous for “a fare.” The Englishwoman in America
On the other hand, if you're a poor US citizen, or you live in Brazil, you're much more likely to moralise and think the dog-chompers should be stopped in their tracks.
At Nuremberg, Rundstedt interpreted his military role as being to execute orders to the best of his ability, but never to moralize to his superior.
Dumb though half the kids may be, they're just plodding meat fodder for a shockingly arrogant TV experiment, which exists for no apparent reason other than to demoralise any genuine teachers watching, potentially to the point of suicide, which really would cause a crisis in our educational system. Charlie Brooker: Jamie's Dream School – a youth club with David Starkey instead of a pool table
We must disorganize and demoralize them to the utmost.
They can help moralise a demoralised community, as Martin Luther King did in the United States in the 1960s.
It was an elite, skillfully and ruthlessly controlling demoralized and apathetic masses.
The reports that the army of the Potomac is much "demoralised" by the attitude taken by the Democratic party are confirmed. Foreign and Colonial News
Thirdly, why we should perhaps not be too dispirited and demoralised about public life.
Still they could not demoralize the Nuristanis, and the fight continued. KARA KUSH
At any one time during the later years of the slave trade, the Efik lands were crowded with newly acquired slaves, most of them thoroughly demoralized. The Serpent and the Rainbow
I didn't think I would [walk out] but you never know, your circumstances change," added Dave, who admitted that he was feeling 'demoralised' today. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
Any commander who has experienced a withdrawal under pressure knows that it is perhaps the most difficult operation you can conduct and certainly the most dangerous; it gives the attacker a feeling of superiority and demoralizes the withdrawing force. The Coming Afghan Debacle
desperate demoralized people looking for work
We are not demoralized or effeminated by the luxury and abundance which are ours, but elevated rather, and strengthened by the very magnificence and opulence of our circumstances, and by the perfect freedom, under healthful restraint, which we enjoy through the community's strong, vigorous, moral and intellectual tone. The Dominion in 1983
You can give me no advice nor point me out any line to pursue but you can write to me — & tell me how you are — & of your friends — let me hear from you as soon as possible. moralize metaphysicize pun — say good things — promise us some aid in the magazine & shake hands with me as cordially by letter as when we parted in the Strand. Letter 124
Today, our approach to the social burden of alcohol is best described as a mixture of all three: we moralize, medicalize, and legalize. Gladwell: cultural norms affect drinking! | Dr Vino's wine blog
The key is to theologize first and moralize later, that is, to celebrate God's love and grace first, and then thereafter to ask what we should do about it in the light of that celebration.
This provision disrespects and demoralizes our law enforcement officers and prosecutors who are responsible for protecting our national security using the United States criminal justice system and process which has been effectively used repeatedly to investigate, arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate individuals who are convicted of terrorism. Rep. Hank Johnson: Reject Indefinite Detention; Defend the Constitution
These backup forces are demoralized and headed for the door.
He berates the already demoralized employees in a speech of extraordinary viciousness.
In doing so it will hopefully help puncture the ideological claims that have done much to demoralise workers and dispirit potential students of work and employment relations.
It is you and the like of you that deprave and demoralize youth and prepare criminals for the gallows.
While one player may be invigorated by a brisk dressing-down, another may be demoralised and unwilling to give his best for a boss who doesn't seem to appreciate his talents.
Strengthening anti-rape provisions in policy would “demoralize” our troops. Think Progress » Conservatives Fearmonger About Repealing DADT: It Will Lead To The Draft And ‘Mortally’ Wound The Military
But which is the lesser evil, until we are able to remoralise whole groups and classes of people, undoing the harm done when already weak restraints on strong instincts are further weakened by permissiveness in television, in films, on bookstalls? Howard Flight echoes Keith Joseph's 1974 warning that 'our human stock is threatened'
We moralize the issue of weight and so the really virtuous person is the one who struggles to maintain a lower weight through sacrifice.
President Robert Mugabe blames Western sanctions for the troubles and says price hikes are an attempt to "demoralize" voters ahead of polling day. ANC Daily News Briefing
FSU again demoralized Duke, improving to 12-0 in the all-time series. USATODAY.com
We "moralize" not by denying the existence of the monster, but by rationalizing to ourselves that it is only under extreme, exceptional conditions that the monster emerges (even while admitting the monster is always there). Carry-Over Thread
Another warden said: ‘The re-training will be pointless because the staff are all demoralised.’
Two stanzas in English moralize the situation, and for our present purpose may be ignored. Robert Burns How To Know Him
She moralized over same-sex marriage, but expected forgiveness and understanding when, thanks to tabloid pictures, America got to know her in the biblical sense. Conservatives of Convenience
The illness demoralized him and recovery took several weeks.
To see why, remember that Bush’s second term demoralized a lot of Republicans. The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on Sarah Palin and Going Rogue
Anyway, his worry is that presenters will become demoralised. Times, Sunday Times
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
Talk of defeat had demoralized the team.
Demoralized by the McCarthy witch hunts at the State Department, the embassy staff feared Donovan was invading with a planeload of OSS spooks to take over the diplomatic mission. Wild Bill Donovan
The proper response to these revolutions would, Brooks writes, remoralize the market, relocalize the economy and recapitalize the poor. The American Culture
This war has greatly demoralised and discredited the governing class in Great Britain, and if big masses of unemployed and unfed people, no longer strung up by the actuality of war, masses now trained to arms and with many quite sympathetic officers available, are released clumsily and planlessly into a world of risen prices and rising rents, of legal obstacles and forensic complications, of greedy speculators and hampered enterprises, there will be insurrection and revolution. What is Coming?
There, too, we met a match for sighing Orlando, -- mirrored in the water; there, too, some diluted Jaques may have "moralized" the excursion for next day's "Courier," and some lout of a Touchstone (there are always such in picnics) passed the ices, made poor puns, and won more than his share of the smiles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
It looked so sad, compared with what it used to be, so desolate and brambled up and ruinous, that I scarcely should have known it, except for the gray pedestal of the prostrate dial we used to moralise about. Springhaven
Nothing to intellectualise, moralise or agonise about. Mail and Guardian
The article proceeds to read several fascinating folia of some thirteenth-century Bibles moralisées and discusses, in particlar, the way that pagan Eastern thought was represented in the form of astrologers, and are constantly seen as challenging and encroaching upon the divine sciences. Archive 2006-05-01
How the Italians cavorted and jumped for joy at the final whistle; how the Scots looked broken and demoralised.
The parents and the teachers tend to compare their wards with their counterparts and as a result the child is demoralised in front of others.
They may be fierce and terrible, they may bring wretchedness and ruin, they may 'demoralize' armies and people, they may be dreadful evils, and leave long trails of desolation, but they are none the less wars for victories in which men will return thanks while the world shall stand. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
But the problem with this view is that it moralizes images in terms of a reductive dichotomy between good and bad, ‘positive’ and ‘negative’, and thus fails to recognize the ambivalence of the text.
He knew from interviews with students at entry and graduation that many were demoralised by the course.
The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
Data from the U.S. Department of Education and from several recent university studies show that far from being shy and demoralized, today's girls outshine boys.
So do some of the more sensible thinkers on the right, such as New York Times columnist David Brooks, who enthused recently about the need to "remoralize the markets". Matthew Bishop: 'The Road From Ruin': Are We Naive Idiots For Thinking Business Can Be Anything But Greedy?
Then the whole tacky and demoralised affair will descend into brawling as each union fights for its own factional interests, including grabbing a greater share of the rapidly dwindling dues base.
His lawyer, Giovanni Gebbia, said that the 40-year-old priest from southern India was completely "demoralised" by his arrest on Thursday and expressed concern about his client's mental health. ?????
The night had been cool and comfortable, dry and dewless; but the Shaykhs were torpid after the feast, and the escort and quarrymen had been demoralized by a week of sweet The Land of Midian
His service in Tunisia turned a defeated and demoralized II Corps around and made it proficient for battle in 11 days.
If he were an avowed pragmatist with a disinclination to moralise, that would be another matter. Times, Sunday Times
They embody a demoralized liberalism, whose watered-down perspective of reform has been discarded by the ruling class.
When Samantha discovered she was pregnant, she was totally demoralized. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
They can make me into one of those smiley-face fireworks, but do you think they'd be willing to explain to the crowd that I'm being ironic Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a moralizer, a morphologist and a memento mori. Alt Text: Ashes to Caches -- Cremation Services for Dead Geeks
A decimated and demoralized staff is not an efficient one.
The critical parent role is how we find weak spots and can immobilize and demoralize others.
This criticism was said to have demoralised staff and caused a split between them and councillors.
She was grave and gay by turns — she moralized and methodized — she laughed, and romped, and danced, and sung, and sighed, and ogled, and lisped, and fluttered, and flattered — but all was preaching to the desart. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Should we moralise, or pathologise the issue? Times, Sunday Times
I think Joeo gets at an important aspect of this: the perception of risk and causality is both moralized and lacking in evidentiary basis … and it’s precisely * because* it’s moralized in a sexist way that the “common sense” causality and statistics go unquestioned. Safety and Sexism
But there are times she is angered by what she sees as the blind ignorance of those who moralise. Times, Sunday Times
This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
The more Obama retreats, the more he emboldens the Tea Party and their corporate backers and the more he demoralizes his already demoralized base, leading to an approval rating among Democrats that's now the lowest since he took office. Paul Loeb: Praising the Hostage Takers: Will Obama Ever Hold the Republicans Accountable?
Shoesmith, 55, appears widely respected among her peers in Haringey: an open letter signed by 61 primary and secondary school headteachers in the north London borough last month called her an "outstanding public servant" who had in her previous role revitalised Haringey's once embarrassing and demoralised education service. Baby P: The incompetence of Haringey Council was always the story
Charley never preached, much less moralized - he would simply get to the heart of the matter and save you time and breath.
It is outstanding in that the book does not attempt to moralize or preach.
But at just 39 years old the family doctor is so demoralised with his inability to care for his patients properly that he is leaving the profession altogether.
And it just demoralised me totally when he would speak to me that way because I decided that I was doing everything in my power that I could to do what he wanted.
Rather than motivate the new workforce, ministers did everything to demoralise and demotivate them. 'Civil service reform is badly needed – but this is like slow poisoning'
'nooning'; and wandering to and fro, thoroughly demoralised the garden until sundown, when he returned to his pickets for food. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
I discovered I was attractive to women -- I'd forgotten that, I was so demoralized. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Apart from stating his belief that Europe should be more involved in shaping a new economic order where financial capitalism should be 'moralised' - which he sees as a justification for further political integration on an European level - Sarkozy also managed once more to give Turkey the cold shoulder treatment. Meanwhile in Brussels (and beyond)...
(He seems to be using "moralize" in a sense that makes it a good thing, something like a "critique" of human behavior.) The State of Criticism
The working class in Russia shrank to just over 1 million, atomised, demoralised, declassed.
Now, the national side, which once ruled the football world with a haughty confidence, is completely demoralized and there's less than a year to prepare for the great campaign on home ground.
They are helping our enemies to demoralize us into giving up.
Mr Oaten admitted he was 'demoralised' after the scandal and had wanted to stand down for a while. Home | Mail Online
This harmony and order -- a moralized nature -- is what Scruton means by the "sacred," the capturing of which is the duty of artists. Art and Culture
But we are more inclined to moralise about nature than to understand the science and economics underlying it. Times, Sunday Times
An unnamed worker said this week resources were overstretched, countywide ambulance cover was critically low and workers were becoming demoralised by a relentless stream of government statistics.
They moralize that you can only win salvation and happiness in some other world, and then only by sacrificing your life in this one. NAKED EMPIRE
They have left the teaching profession, demoralized and undervalued.
And of course, the darkly comic thing about it is that, less than a year ago, some conservatives were "exulting" over the tea parties, believing they brought needed energy to a movement demoralized by its 2008 shellacking at the polls. Spokesman.com: Latest stories
Schaffhausen, your lying upon straw, your black bread, and your broken berline, are proper seasonings for the greater fatigues and distresses which you must expect in the course of your travels; and, if one had a mind to moralize, one might call them the samples of the accidents, rubs, and difficulties, which every man meets with in his journey through life. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
The life-story perspective reveals a common presentation in patients who have been demoralized and overmastered by circumstances.
It is just another crafted ploy to demoralize the public. Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.
Massena attempted to lay siege to Torres Vedras, but after four months his army, starved and demoralized, was forced to retreat.
He brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
Really, they're the band to remoralise troops who've had to crap in bags for two months. Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Fleeing with other demoralized shreds of the Spanish Armada, the galley had sailed up the eastern coast of England, driven on ahead of the English fleet by gales and storms.
He wants to moralize without the minister mantle that paints him, he told CT, as ....... the token religious candidate, that the only reason I was in the race was to advance my own personal, spiritual agenda, which was ridiculous. Huckabee: No 'attack' on Natalie Portman
They pointed to a progressive development of the concept of holiness, noting that it was gradually moralized under the influence of the great prophets.
Cameron's Red Tory advisor Phillip Blond has talked about the need to "remoralise the market". Labour at Brighton: into a foreign and strange land
At first, to be honest, I was a little demoralized – I mean, what the heck is the point of the euphoria I felt upon being named a New York Times Best Seller, if not to receive, what? Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Best Seller Payoff
Without our most important member, the group had been demoralized.
It's chicken feed compared to other fields, but so as to look "fair" cuts are made that will devastate and demoralise for a generation. Johann Hari: Stephen Fry, British Polymath: A Twinterview
This tendency to thrift is strongest in boys, and both sexes often show the tendency to moralize, that is so strong in the early teens. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
But instead of issuing forth to finish off the demoralized Japanese squadron the Russian ships remained safely in harbour.
Mujahid blamed U.S. intelligence agencies, saying they were trying "to demoralize the Taliban. Taliban deny that their leader is dead
Outlaw, really, your attempting to moralize instinct, and so far the only thing I can see your achieving is contempt for the many that helps no one.
By most indications, Aidid's supporters were decimated and demoralized the day after the Battle of Mogadishu.
I was convinced that it was inappropriate for the navy, and I thought it would demoralize my sailors . . . The Good Fight
Without the power to say no, all kinds of treachery is used and everyone involved becomes demoralized, cynical and fatalistic.
Thoroughly demoralized by my dream, I was in a state of nervous fright by the time I got to the venue.
And some not able to hold their urine or their bowel was so terribly -- well, demoralized is to say it mildly. Interview Text Excerpt
The refugees were cold, hungry, and demoralized.
The bottom line: stop funding attempts to "moralize" men and fund effective prevention programs that meet men, women and young people where they are. Serra Sippel: Obama Still Squandering Global AIDS Funding on Morality
A clear understanding of this dilemma does not demoralize the masses.
Lifting the spirits of the demoralized is a craft -- not a science -- and a wall covered with diplomas does not translate to talent and wisdom in this area. Bruce E. Levine: Regaining Morale in the Age of Depression
The rebels hope to weaken the regime further by attacking its defeated and demoralised forces.
But politicians simply can't help but moralise.
There's a strong feeling that we're populating a ship whose time has gone by, that action taken by moderators or admins will demoralize and send the site on an irrevocable downspin. Everything2 New Writeups
You may tell me, if you like, that I am a _pandour_, and that my taste has been perverted by a life of unbridled Epicureanism; you may tell me that the charms of duplicity, of falsehood, and of this connivance in the guise of a childish deception, are exercising a morbid fascination over my demoralized heart. French and Oriental Love in a Harem
He achieves too much of a pulpit complacency -- therefore of condescendingness -- therefore of falseness to the deep intimacy of good literature -- when he begins to moralize about time and the universe. The Art of Letters
He has helped to transform the party from a disorganised, demoralised rabble into a force which must again be taken seriously.
They also said that life-long Republicans they knew had been demoralised, that is until John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
Talk of defeat had demoralized the team.
Instead of getting on with something useful, managers will be delayed and demoralised by a blizzard of forms to fill in.
The illness demoralized him and recovery took several weeks.
Men are to be moralized, that is, by developing in them those motives to action which Pascal had regarded with particular horror (Pensées, 142) — the desire to avoid public reprobation and to win public esteem. PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN
The rebels seem poorly equipped and demoralised. Times, Sunday Times
the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office
Germania Ford; but the resultless fighting dispirited and demoralized the people, while it only harassed and weakened the army. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
ain't this life a riot word of the week is 'demoralized' - no, word of the month Kelsi Diary Entry
Executives kept leaving, engineers were demoralised and innovative projects were put on hold.
Still they could not demoralize the Nuristanis, and the fight continued. KARA KUSH
And once happiness is itself moralized, the credentials of utilitarianism as an overall theory of ethics are compromised.
The three oppositional voices are those of unreconstructed, demoralised males, ‘destabilised’ by the insecurities of their position.
By its nature, unemployment demoralizes and isolates people. Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Adolf Hitler
They have left the teaching profession, demoralized and undervalued.
I am not trying to moralize, I am only trying to write a few scenes and incidents that came under the observation of a poor old Rebel webfoot private soldier in those stormy days and times. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
After failing to land a job as a journalist, and brief stints as an office temp and clerk typist, Bass was demoralized and returned to North Carolina.
Bloody and incessant feuds had sadly demoralized monastic life, and rendered church government extremely difficult, while the rough barons had intruded their illegitimate children into a large number of the livings, abbacies, and episcopal sees. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Bored people are more likely to be isolated, depressed, demoralized, and lacking in self-esteem.
A demoralized royalist party licked its wounds and tried to pay off its debts; a dejected majority of the old parliamentarian party grudgingly did what they were told but little more.
He's not going to moralise about tax avoidance. Times, Sunday Times
The population was weak and demoralized with a significant number of draft-age men gone.
The New York Times did note, however, that Rubin appeared "demoralized" by the questioning. Shadow Elite : Goldman Sachs - Fraud Is Not the Scandal
The writer believes it will be two divisions - one being the minority dictatorial, militant HAWKS, namely COSATU, SACP and the PAC remnant and the opposing majority, the DOVES, represented by the unemployed, the demoralised poor masses, right through to the middle and business classes of progressive, peace loving citizens. ANC Daily News Briefing
It will be my assertion that television creates a split or multiple identification, in which there is an approximate reflection of the viewer's experience, but also simultaneously, a re-channeling of this experience into a limited number of conventional and highly moralized narratives.
Be calm, accepting, honest and don't moralise or make false promises about how things will get better. Times, Sunday Times
His tutelage of Congress Party workers was always fraught with difficulty because those who believed that politics could be moralized were in a minority.
All of these have gone nearly to the vanishing point, and the middle class population of all that portion of Europe, whose currency has largely depreciated, is being slowly impoverished, weakened, demoralized, and is becoming a vanishing factor. The European Situation
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
The Social Democrats created huge momentum in the 1980s, but still failed-beaten back by Labour at its most demoralised.
Until that moment Sabour had seemed to fit perfectly into the demoralized atmosphere of the classroom.
Much of the remaining work force, which Gregoire described as "demoralized," learned this week that her office wants to re-negotiate how much workers pay in health care premiums. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
They decided to moralize the election and in so doing gave the Christian right a respectability, visibility, and political clout that it had not previously enjoyed.
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The illness demoralized him and recovery took several weeks.
Before hand his 'body language' looked anything but 'bolshie', more disorientated and demoralised and trying to screen out the mahem around him. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Thoroughly demoralized by my dream, I was in a state of nervous fright by the time I got to the venue.
I can see why politicians don't want to moralise about the lifestyles of others. Times, Sunday Times
The effect of the pandemic is greatly felt in the agricultural sector in terms of diminished and demoralised manpower.
They occupy the land and the women, they demoralise and colonise. Rape, murder and general violence in ‘peaceful’ military occupations « Womanvsfeminist’s Blog
I discovered I was attractive to women -- I'd forgotten that, I was so demoralized. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Book number two told him how to dump them, and book number three was how to pick up men, well, this was not to the liking of the newly reigning emperor Augustus, who at that time was trying to moralize Rome.
Dr Trevor Pickersgill, a specialist registrar in neurology in Swansea, said that doctors were demoralised by unattributed briefings.
Sadly, they have been demoralised by an unsupportive management.
They have left the teaching profession, demoralised and undervalued.
Last November it was reported that the Taliban were planning to make much more extensive use of mines, to "demoralise" Nato forces in Afghanistan. Avoidable and Culpable Deaths
Ian Wright also had food for thought as he made a hasty exit from Arsenal's demoralised dressing room.
There was still half an hour to go against a clearly demoralised and dejected team. The Sun
And therein lies the strength of the film: it does not glorify criminality, nor does it attempt to moralise the rest of the country about it.
The troops were thoroughly demoralized by this set - back.
So it moralizes everyone to do what he or she wants to do and be what he or she wants to be, irrespective of what the society prescribes.
It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and demoralized.
It is sustained by security forces whose middle and lower ranks are almost as penniless, starving and demoralised as the citizens they are meant to suppress. Times, Sunday Times
Do not moralise, judge or blame and, importantly, take responsibility for yourself. Times, Sunday Times
They were starving, freezing, and demoralized, hunkered down in drafty cabins, waiting to die from disease or Redcoats.
I object, not to the paperwork that demoralises teachers, but to the undermining of them as caring and knowledgeable professionals that it represents.
He slapped old friends on the back and asked them if the stumps were coming away easily; he talked nonsense concerning labor and the inalienable rights of elephants to a long "nooning"; and, wandering to and fro, he thoroughly demoralized the garden till sundown, when he returned to his picket for food. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
While you diligently pursued that favorite phantom of yours, called profits, and moralized about that favorite fetich of yours, called competition, even greater and more direful things have been accomplished by combination. Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers
I don't know how these people have the brass-neck to moralise to anyone, or offer themselves for election. toco Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
moralized" under their tuition; architecture adopted the baroque style, gaudy and insincere. The Age of the Reformation
Another family of drugs disrupted one's ability to think rationally and logically and still another demoralized people and gave them a defeatist attitude or sense of hopelessness.
Had the planes left their base before notification of surrender came through or was the attack simply to completely demoralise us thereby make us easy to handle? Thomas Hawksworth
Instead of getting on with something useful, managers will be delayed and demoralised by a blizzard of forms to fill in.
But it's possible the second was demoralised by exposure to overwhelming superiority. Times, Sunday Times
If the report stops teachers feeling demoralised and allows them to focus on their work there will be a knock-on effect for pupils, and that's good.
They have left the teaching profession, demoralised and undervalued.
Although I enjoyed those ancient tales, Dahl was never one to preach or moralise.
The working class in Russia shrank to just over 1 million, atomised, demoralised, declassed.
Many were killed quickly and the survivors so demoralized that 145 surrendered and were captured.
I suppose 300-style triremes would be cool, but from a Hollywood point of view, it'd move focus from the proven success of the Spartans, so we instead have to talk about Plataea, which is more of a mop up battle against a demoralized, poorly supplied Persian army. 300 Prequel/Sequel to be The Battle of Plataea? | /Film
Still they could not demoralize the Nuristanis, and the fight continued. KARA KUSH
Mr Bapela said the students were "demoralised" because of a lack of facilities, text books and other equipment. ANC Daily News Briefing
Demoralized, the Italians began a hasty retreat, but not before blunting an attack by republican forces.
Our enemy is emboldened and our own people demoralised.
In the repressions following 1905, the underground was demoralized by defeat and ideological wrangling.
Despite Blair's optimistic nature, cumulatively the attacks must demoralise him, and his police security detail remains high. Tony Blair's donation: guilt, piety ? or both?
The principal of a south Armagh primary school broken into over the weekend says he is demoralised by the destruction left by the thieves.
Perhaps they are missing because, however important, they do not bear hard on the immediate question of social defeatism - on the deep changes that might reawaken and remoralize the nation.
There was still half an hour to go against a clearly demoralised and dejected team. The Sun
‘I thought I would find a company that had demoralised employees, low morale,’ he said.
In the beginning, I was in tears after every lesson and felt demoralised.
Its methods included the use of force in diverse ways: to destroy enemy fighters, to demoralize both combatants and sympathizers through punitive action; and/or to break the combatant/civilian nexus by singling out leaders while cultivating relations with non-combatants. Michael Brenner: COIN Classic, New COIN, Post-Modern COIN
Ek mag dit ook net noem dat die pistool het nie dieselfe demoraliserende uitwerking as wat 'n masjiengeweer het nie; die klank is nie dieselfde nie en ek het gehoop dat dit sou die uitwerking hê om die kinders weg te dryf sodat ek net kon uitkom sonder enige bloedvergieting. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
This blunder demoralized his own side while elating the enemy and encouraging Afghan friends and neutrals to scramble to make their accommodations while they could. Why McChrystal Has to Go
Losing several matches in succession had completely demoralized the team.
Instead of being fearful and demoralized by Martius' attack on Rome, for example, the tribunes organize the plebs into a defense force so fearsome that Martius withdraws of his own accord.
Caste has ruined the Hindu race and has destroyed, demoralised and devitalised Hindu society.
While people may be sceptical about politicians who moralise, they are anxious to see them display integrity and principle.
The job has lost its way and we have become demoralised, divided and demotivated due to the political meddlings of the Government, aided by the self serving and knee jerking senior officers looking to advance themselves or get themselves a knighthood. Through The Looking Glass « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
He leaves behind a system that Federal Aviation Administration FAA head Randy Babbitt says is in the process of transformation but that critics describe as demoralized by almost eight years of turmoil and change. The Seattle Times
Still they could not demoralize the Nuristanis, and the fight continued. KARA KUSH
Jack caught up Abdullah's sword, and, by a desperate charge, cut through the opposing Turks, now "demoralised" by the loss of their leader, and regained his Bedouin and English friends. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series
the commander's prostration demoralized his men
Those moves have already prompted an exodus of demoralised top brass. Times, Sunday Times
The party must re-group and must galvanise its demoralised membership.
The ship's crew were now exhausted and utterly demoralized.
And they typically or 70 - or 80-something 'seniors' now demoralized and destituted, lost from all they ever worked and wished for. Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog)
his ethicism often led him to moralize
Politicians, he insists, should never moralise about relationships. Times, Sunday Times
It was on his and Bushes watch that 9-11 happened and he did about as much as anyone to discredit and demoralise the CIA during the lead up to Iraq, so where he has the nerve to come out and criticise Obama is beyond me. Cheney: Obama pretending we are not at war
It would have been a slur on their professionalism had they been seen to be demoralised by the departure of a mere youth.
Losing several matches in succession had completely demoralized the team.
His supporters went into the debate terribly demoralized, afflicted with an industrial-strength dose of buyer's remorse.
A method utilized by small, mobile units to harass, weaken, demoralize, and combat larger conventional forces, guerrilla warfare antedates modern history.
Despite this, the unit does manage to repulse the advancing rebel soldiers, leaving Henry feeling more demoralized than ever.
The illness demoralized him and recovery took several weeks.
Talk of defeat had demoralized the team.
While you diligently pursued that favorite phantom of yours, called profits, and moralized about that favorite fetich of yours, called competition, even greater and more direful things have been accomplished by combination. Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers
Mules are used frequently in these parts to transport trekkers gear and food supplies and served to fully demoralise us throughout our trek by capably lugging 100kg of gear on tortuous paths that left us wheezing for breath. Ben Colclough: The Atlas Mountains -- Berbers, Mules and Peaks in Morocco

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