How To Use Morals In A Sentence

  • Love for others, concern for justice and the poor are not so much a question of social morals as the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality because, through priestly ministry, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is accomplished, in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator. Pope on the Essential Elements of Priestly Ministry
  • For wear with battle dress beginning in 1939, tam o'shanters and balmorals were designated as field dress.
  • All who remember this "beatitude" will be helped to solve many perplexing problems of dress, diet, play, education, philanthropy, morals, and civics. Civics and Health
  • Bluchers are more appropriate than balmorals with jeans and business-casual, but balmorals are more appropriate with suits.
  • Whatever you might think about the man, his morals, or his use of drugs, you have to admire his tenacity in the face of illness.
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  • I think you have done well in avoiding the topic altogether; but between ourselves, do you really think that the refinement of manner, the censorious, hypocritical, verbal scrupulosity, which is carried so far in this "picked age" of ours, is a true sign of superior refinement of taste, and purity of morals? Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
  • Relevant dimensions of difference include morals, values, standards, beliefs, and attitudes.
  • Since balmorals are more formal than bluchers and broguing makes shoes less formal, where does this leave those shoes that are both brogued and balmorals?
  • Even though I have found it virtually impossible to 'change' somebodies morals after a certain formative period in their lives. Child Abuse Alert
  • Roman Catholic Church. immune from fallacy or liability to error in expounding matters of faith or morals by virtue of the promise made by Christ to the Church. The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot
  • Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture. James Lee, Discovery Hostage Taker, Has List Of Demands That Is Hilarious And Crazy
  • Religious values can often differ greatly from humanistic morals.
  • See the thing about a high mark up is it leaves an opening for competition … you know I was watching this movie on rwanda … you want to talk about morals. .4000 troops might of saved 800 000 lives .. now that is immoral .. you need to put things in perspective … reply boke There Is A Difference Between Evil And Just Absurdly Profitable
  • The Government was not voted in by us to improve our morals, but to manage the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • It no more lies within the field of morals than does a cross-word puzzle.
  • Others are fables, with morals attached. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also, my mom adored him, so she would probably support the union somewhere deep down under her churchly morals. Kiss It
  • Intent, beside the form it has in language, where it makes the soul of grammar, has many other modes of expression, in mathematical and logical reasoning, in action, and in those contemplated and suspended acts which we call estimation, policy, or morals. The Life of Reason
  • Typically, rhymes, metres and morals must come strict and clear. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It is right here that morals and ethics can and often do go out the door.
  • Even the old parliamentarians hailed the return of Charles, notwithstanding it was admitted that the protectorate was a vigorous administration; that law and order were enforced; that religious liberty was proclaimed; that the rights of conscience were respected; that literature and science were encouraged; that the morals of the people were purified; that the ordinances of religion were observed; that vice and folly were discouraged; that justice was ably administered; that peace and plenty were enjoyed; that prosperity attended the English arms abroad; and that the nation was as much respected abroad as it was prosperous at home. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
  • He did not therefore recur to his difficulties on the score of morals.
  • Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one hand, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.
  • This brief description of the plot of Cabaret does not really describe the story of the film, since it fails to elaborate the film's themes, ideas and morals.
  • The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
  • Anyhow, it's more than a little depressing how commonplace is Brewer's apparent assumption: that politics have little or nothing to do with morals and values. Television
  • I don't know if he is an unfairly vilified man or if any of the denunciations of his morals and motives have some truth to them.
  • What matters is how this declaration would contribute to the uplifting of morals by those in government and the general populace and whether it contravenes the rights and freedoms of non-Christians.
  • But she was a severe censurer of pieces of a light or indecent turn, which had a tendency to corrupt the morals of youth, to convey polluted images, or to wound religion, whether in itself, or through the sides of its professors, and this, whoever were the authors, and how admirable soever the execution. Clarissa Harlowe
  • It was a good thing that Allan had the true noble morals and the principles which prevented him from ever taking advantage of Chase's loyalty.
  • Thus each framework has a definite orientational effect in the lives of men who so construe their morals. RIGHT AND GOOD
  • Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Albert Schweitzer 
  • Once you abandon whatever it is you think needs abandoning and atheize your self, you can finally live free of the morals and values you don't like, in favor of the ones you do - its all the fun you always wanted, reason free! AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • I am referring to the word that means ‘insincere talk, especially concerning morals; pious platitudes’.
  • Two members had remained exceedingly hostile to the case, and because of their refusal to compromise the jury declared: ‘We are unanimously of the opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motives in publishing it.’ Important Battles « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Reinforcing the ideological morals education of youth students is an omnibearing system education project.
  • Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals. A Book of Prefaces
  • He asserted that democracy needs ‘a web of rules, regulations, institutions, laws, morals, public opinion and conventions’.
  • The doctor, whatever her politics and morals, had lovely skilful hands, which Phoebe could not but admire.
  • This impertinent and malicious insinuation made some impression upon the bystanders, and furnished ample field for slander to asperse the morals of Trunnion, who was represented through the whole district as a monster of barbarity. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • I guess it all depends on your own standards or morals really.
  • He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorial powers even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience; into all conduct which had given scandal; into all actions which, though they escaped the law, might appear contrary to good morals. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
  • To a man of the world looking on, who has seen the men and morals of many cities, it was curious, almost pathetic, to watch that poor little innocent creature fresh and smiling, attired in bright colours and a thousand gewgaws, simpering in the midst of these darkling people — practising her little arts and coquetries, with such a court round about her. The Newcomes
  • We are not worried about petty morals. READY, STEADY, GO!: Swinging London and the Invention of Cool
  • Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you. Amy Tan 
  • In these hot damp climates the venereal requirements and reproductive powers of the female greatly exceed those of the male; and hence the dissoluteness of morals would be phenomenal, were it not obviated by seclusion, the sabre and the revolver. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Most of what they say about Scott is unrepeatable, but a common thread is that she couldn't have achieved what she has without compromising her morals.
  • A freethinker is a person who forms an opinion about religion, politics and morals independently of tradition, authority or established belief. Osama Bin Laden Renamed Muqtada al-Sadr by America
  • This seriously good novel tells the story of M, a man with a sketchy past and even sketchier morals.
  • Whilst in the land of free morals, I have been asked to track down a porn film called Romeo and Julian.
  • The performance of rites of worship must not prejudice public order or public morals.
  • I don't like it when the law overlaps with morals or ethics. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • Once again, chivalry and morals, my friends, will take you places.
  • Mickolai's character, though ultimately likable, is at times annoyingly flawless in his morals, military acumen, and financial wizardry. REVIEW: The War with Earth by Leo Frankowski and Dave Grossman
  • The only way to defeat evil and stand up for morals, values, integrity, and decency is to vote against Democrats. Steele: Sanford, Ensign affairs 'old news, old school'
  • It's really hard to make a character so devoid of morals so watchable and likable.
  • This is what I call tabloid morals and pop culture values. Writer's Block Media
  • They have their own code of morals and honor, just like anyone else.
  • A person of weak morals would have gone out to scandalise his colleagues even on matters he agreed with.
  • Nevertheless, by posing questions rather than serving up morals, he's caught some flak from simple-minded gay critics.
  • There is such a thing as a modicum of decency and morals of public behaviour.
  • Crude and tasteless, the film showed no let-up of violence against women and cast aspersions on the morals of working women.
  • I never thought of myself as having any morals but it seems a few firmly held convictions are lurking in there somewhere, doing queer things to my stomach when someone questions their validity.
  • This does not merely explain the origin of morals, it totally explains them away. Times, Sunday Times
  • At least since the days of Frédéric Bastiat, many have said that people of the left often trail behind in incorporating basic economic insight into their aesthetics, morals, and politics. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:
  • Like Paris handsome [34] and like Hector brave, but as pious as Aeneas; "a rich fellow enough," with blood hopelessly blue and morals spotlessly copy-bookish -- in other words, a Sir Charles A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • He may be writing a murder mystery, but his novel is primarily concerned with the nature of small-town America and its particular manners and morals.
  • These beautiful new books, filled with morals and happy endings, help us hold on to our storytelling heritage.
  • My point is that these monsters are driven by their own needs to the exclusion of everything else so therefore will take any advantage society throws them to say they should be released - josef fritzl is totally cruel and utterly self centred and will do or say anything to further what he wants at any moment in time. --- back to my point, society has so called morals and part of the moral agender is to look after everyones civil and human rights without prejudice (even if that person is a serial killer or a josef fritzl) - this is nonsense, as long as we treat everyone the same despite what they have done these evil men will continue to take advantage of the world they live in for their own self gratification. New Statesman
  • You have morals and decency. The Sun
  • About once a year some pious public library banishes Huck Finn from its children's department, and on the same plea always — that Huck, the neglected and untaught son of a town drunkard, is given to lying, when in difficulty and hard pressed, and is therefore a bad example for young people, and a damager of their morals. Excerpt From ‘The Autobiography of Mark Twain’
  • Chiefly to this, — that philosophers have not always distinguished the theoretical and the casuistical uncertainty of morals from the practical certainty. Philebus
  • Industry and constant employment are great preservatives of the morals and virtues of a nation. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
  • Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is presented to us, which, if filled up in the true style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and subline that has ever been taught by man. Think Progress » O’Reilly Teaches Viewers the True Meaning of Christmas
  • He was referring to McCain loosing his bearings on his morals and integrity by participating in smear tactics. Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?
  • Another negative aspect of this card is that it can represent intense temptation and warns of being unfaithful to your own morals.
  • If they let this one slide by, it means that they have no morals and no ethics.
  • Her take on opposing views seems a bit wrong, and her concept of morals seems largely centered around material things.
  • The fathers of the English _church_, forbade selling on trust at a higher price than for ready money, which was the same thing in effect as to _forbid trust_; and this was doubtless one of the great objects those wise and pious men had in view; for they were fathers in legislation and morals, as well as in religion. The Young Man's Guide
  • You can shove your uptight morals up your ass.
  • You can shove your uptight morals up your ass.
  • He is a specialist in the production of highland hats such as glengarries for pipers/drummers and balmorals for daywear use.
  • Your good Moslem -- and a Moslem is good in those parts who makes a mountain of observances, regarding mole-hills of mere morals not at all -- affects to despise all giaours; but a giaour, like a gipsy, who has no obvious religion of any kind, he ranks below the pig in order of reverence. The Eye of Zeitoon
  • If you propose to become a tyrant over him, ... do your best to poison him with a theory of morals against nature; impose every kind of fetter on him; embarrass his movements with a thousand obstacles; place phantoms around him to frighten him .... The Ancient Regime
  • It is very difficult to discuss ethical or morals questions such as virtue in a moderate or reasonable way.
  • To permit such falsifications to pass unnoticed and unchallenged is a species of connivance at error; for, to quote a maxim which is recognized alike in morals and in law, _Qui tacet consentire videtur: _ "Silence gives consent. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886
  • For both of these reasons, a person can therefore have facets of his or her consciousness at many different levels of morals, worldviews, defenses, pathologies, needs, and so forth which can be mapped on an integral psychograph. Subpersonalities -- An Integral Theoretical Model
  • However in the realm of morals, there is space for people to choose to outbreak the circumscription with the help of their free will and take responsibility for their choices.
  • I believe balmorals should have a gap of ¼ " and bluchers about ¾ "; otherwise it looks so school-boyish.
  • You are completely unprincipled and have no interest whatsoever in morals, justice or fairness of any kind.
  • The man's morals are rotten to the core.
  • It's insulting to my morals as a decent human being to have to watch people degrade themselves on television and use sly tactics in order to win money.
  • The morals and ethics are obvious, the comedy more subtle and highly entertaining.
  • To solve this problem thoroughly, it is necessary to establish morals duty mechanism, compensate morals reproduction cost, creat social security system and reinforce feel grateful education.
  • In 1870 the First Vatican Council announced the dogma of papal infallibility on matters of faith and morals.
  • So as we understand it we have our own morals that we have tried to ingrain into society but a diety is getting the credit. Harlan Ellison on God
  • How parliaments make swine and vermin of men, who are destitute of morals and devoid of human attributes, is no more in the realm of magic, neither in that of magic realism.
  • Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
  • The bad was the pervasive and inevitable corruption of morals and manners that accompanied such a compulsion for the luxurious.
  • Not all morals harmonize with one another. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Spokesman María Jesús Ortiz claimed the images presented the women as 'sexual objects.' arge 'We're not talking about morals or nudity here, it's simply how women are portrayed,' she said. Going to the Mat
  • Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one band, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras. The Afghan Tragedy
  • Culture also depends on a social matrix of belief, art, law, morals and customs.
  • We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
  • It has concentrated on good morals and mannerliness in conduct.
  • Even if his morals got twisted up the way you suggest, he'd always insist on doing the risky part himself. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • The idea of the war between morals and instincts materializes in the efforts of a prostitute who wants to change her ways.
  • Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you. Amy Tan 
  • Ignoring his morals and his upbringings, Brad continued to root through the drawer in search of the gun.
  • He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.
  • The filial piety is an accomplishment point of departure to promote personal morals.
  • But jenny is a moralizing, fundamentalist "christian" nattering about morals. Jenny Sanford on her husband: 'The ball is in his court'
  • Starting like Plato from the theory of recurrent partial catastrophes, he offers an accourt of the gene - alogy of morals which is much more tough-minded than Plato's: man is distinguished from the other ani - mais only by his intelligence, which causes him to develop elementary ideas of right and wrong in the interests of self-preservation (6. 5-7). PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
  • a self-appointed guardian of public morals
  • If the morals of mankind have not contracted an extraordinary degree of depravity, within these thirty years, then must I be infected with the common vice of old men, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti; or, which is more probable, the impetuous pursuits and avocations of youth have formerly hindered me from observing those rotten parts of human nature, which now appear so offensively to my observation. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • The spiritual man also judges by approving what is right and reproving what he finds amiss in the works and morals of the faithful, such as in their almsgiving, which is signified by the phrase, "The earth bringing forth its fruit. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
  • A lot of people teach morals and I believe that everybody has their own standard of morals.
  • Gissing used his fictional alter ego to attack Victorian morals.
  • Hume makes no attempt to connect morals with religion, no doubt because he saw that morals cannot be grounded on any form of authority, however powerful, though religious belief may operate as a sanction through its effect on the passions.
  • The fathers of the Church (I mean the ancient ones), and also the canons of the Church, forbade selling on trust at a higher price than for ready money, which was in effect to forbid _trust_; and this, doubtless, was one of the great objects which those wise and pious men had in view; for they were fathers in legislation and morals as well as in religion. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
  • Moeurs is a portmanteau word for both morals and manners: which shall it be? The Times Literary Supplement
  • Better to pay lip service to the morals police than bring down their provincial ire on your head.
  • After his stint as drug czar, Bennett moved on to become a for-profit defender of morals.
  • Signs of sexual consciousness hidden in them might induce some clues to 'hormonal movement' so as to enrich more their humoristic morals and make the process be led up to meaningful afterthoughts.
  • At the official opening of last year's fair Mugabe said: "I find it extremely outrageous and repugnant to my human conscience that such immoral and revulsive organisations like those of homosexuals, who offend both against the law of nature and the morals of religious beliefs espoused by our society, should have any advocates in our midst and even elsewhere in the world. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Depending on your age, morals and various points of view, she was either the sexiest piece of work around or a brazen hussy or both.
  • The first purpose listed in the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40: 55D-2 et seq., is to “encourage municipal action to guide the appropriate use or development of all lands in this state, in a manner which will promote the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare.” 2009 March « Beachwood Historical Alliance
  • There are clear morals to be drawn from the failure of these companies.
  • For Sigmund Freud, childhood was a paradox in that one's identity emerges at the very time when one's morals and emotions are shapeless.
  • It totally overlooks right and wrong, morals, discipline, and manners.
  • So as we understand it we have our own morals that we have tried to ingrain into society but a diety is getting the credit. Harlan Ellison on God
  • Women who went to pubs alone would sometimes be assumed to have loose morals.
  • She was greedy for power, and didn't let morals get in the way of her pursuit of it.
  • Austen understands profoundly that manners are a kind of morals.
  • Whether you do depends on ethics and morals. Times, Sunday Times
  • His balance at the banker's is a fact; his good name and credit with the tradespeople is a fact; so is the comfort of his home; so are the health, the morals, the education of his children. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
  • Crude and tasteless, the film showed no let-up of violence against women and cast aspersions on the morals of working women.
  • He tells us that such was the corruption of faith and of morals towards the close of their brief day, that had not the Saxon sword interposed; plague, pestilence, or famine, or some similar calamity, must have done the fatal work. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
  • The average Parisienne of the street is not immoral; she is unmoral, that is to say she has no morals because she never did have any. On the Fringe of the Great Fight
  • I shall now draw some general morals from this sketch of the structure of Peirce's philosophical thought.
  • He has very high morals and is law-abiding and he's never done anything criminally wrong in his life.
  • BUT this refined jargon, which has infested letters and tainted morals, is chiefly admired and adopted by _young ladies_ of a certain turn, who read _sentimental books_, write _sentimental letters_, and contract Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies
  • Values and morals are independent of religious faith.
  • How can we call Sion a force for change when he goes against the very morals that made us love him in the first place? Anime Nano!
  • That may sound logical enough but in fact those are the morals of a looter.
  • We are ruled by an elite where money talks louder than morals and ethics.
  • If indeed this be their destination, arguments may be drawn from reason: and thus augustly supported, the more understanding women acquire, the more they will be attached to their duty — comprehending it — for unless they comprehend it, unless their morals be fixed on the same immutable principle as those of man, no authority can make them discharge it in a virtuous manner. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • The naturalistic conclusion is antagonistic to theistic religion and leads to non-theistic belief systems, laws, morals and ethics that sharply conflict with those derived from the major religions of the world.
  • The real fear over the bachelor girl was the state of her morals: a woman alone could engage in illicit relations with men and thus enjoy experiences formerly reserved for married women. The Bachelor Girl | Edwardian Promenade
  • Some purists insist that balmorals are not ‘berets’ but ‘civilians’ call a Scottish blue bonnet a beret.
  • Films like this are a danger to public morals.
  • French novels, French philosophy, and, above all, French morals, or rather want of morals, – these are what I go against, Cousin Ellery. Oldtown Folks
  • Two brutish and boobyish Titans -- they've wholly corrupted our morals, Punch Among the Planets
  • However, it is not too much to ask them to themselves act with strong morals and integrity, or else they may be prone to bribery or other forms of corruption.
  • Their social organization is very complete; each village has its headman or manjhi, with his assistant the paranik; the jogmanghi is charged with the supervision of the morals of the young men and women; the naeke is the village priest, the godet is the village constable. Folklore of the Santal Parganas
  • Not all morals harmonize with one another. The Times Literary Supplement
  • I think the question you're trying to ask is whether I am able to govern myself well, and by that I mean, am I able to regulate my thoughts and actions according to a set of personal values, morals, ethics, etc.
  • Others are fables, with morals attached. Times, Sunday Times
  • And so what if they're getting a big fat pay cheque - the money is commensurate with their sporting talent, not a measure of their morals.
  • Morals tend to be deeply ingrained.
  • I suppose my image has changed but I'd like to think I'm still the same Vivienne and that my principles and morals are the same.
  • We create such morals based on the collective opinion that murder is wrong.
  • About forty years of age, a man of the purest morals, entirely given up to his art, he had married from inclination the dowerless daughter of a general. The Vendetta
  • Free from outdated rules regarding outdoor clothing and morals, the Lawrences certainly had a more lively manner.
  • To continue to argue for tax cuts after 2003 was, of course, the mark of a pilferer with the morals of a Russian oligarch. Matthew Yglesias » Surveying the Wreckage
  • Appointed to Morals Court in 1926, she became known as a staunch advocate of women's rights and used her position to protect the needs of women and families, publicly arguing that abandonment be treated as a felony and that grounds for divorce be made more difficult for the man. Personal Information for Mary Belle Grossman
  • My mother and father did a great job in instilling the morals and principles in us from the very beginning.
  • The Bible has noble poetry in it... And some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. Mark Twain 
  • Too many parents are willing to turn over the teaching of morals and social niceties to schools.
  • He called attention to the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of its climates, productions, and commerce, the difference of extent, and number of inhabitants in all; the dissimilitude of interest, morals, and policies .... The Enlarged Republic—Then and Now
  • Thus, one is left with three morals that are also the morals to so many modern tales: the celebrity media is far too dominant for anyone's good; fame turns already dotty people even dottier, and have more faith in your own judgment instead of listening to idiots. The Guardian World News
  • The other scale is the growing unity of conservatism … not necessarily republicans, but those that want, in summary, for America to remain America … complete with traditional ways of life, values, and morals …. Cheney says GOP presidential bench still strong
  • Although conceptions about the subject have indeed evolved, there still remains a relatively close bond between young adults and their traditional morals of settling down and devoting themselves to a family life.
  • For their troubles, Besant and Bradlaugh stood in the dock accused of circulating obscene material calculated to deprave public morals and faced the likelihood of a lengthy stretch in jail. Important Battles « Tales from the Reading Room
  • These talking heads of Fox network never stop amazing us with their twisted tongues, morals & values, and biasness. Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question
  • Phil Anschutz is the city's most elusive important billionaire - the builder of Staples Center, remaker of Downtown, and erstwhile Hollywood morals guru and news media mogul. LA Observed
  • Films like this are a danger to public morals.
  • This declaration stands in direct contrast with many contemporaneous Yiddish books of morals (sifrey musar) such as Sefer Middot (Isny 1542) or Brant Shpigl (The Burning Mirror, Cracow 1596) by Moses Ben Henokh Altschul (c. 1546 – 1633), which constantly criticized women’s inadequate knowledge and insight. Rivke Bas Me���ir Tiktiner.
  • Religious values can often differ greatly from humanistic morals.
  • They also believe that the declaration calls for the achievement of the highest morals among leaders in the discharge of their responsibilities or duties.
  • Everyone has their morals regarding public nudity.
  • Aristocratic characters were generally portrayed as egocentric individuals with loose morals and a tendency to treat women either as sex objects or as a means of exchange.
  • It is preposterous to expect that the same superstition regarding skin ascendency, which is now so markedly played out in our Colonies in temporal matters, could have any weight whatsoever in matters so momentous as morals and religion. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
  • Apparently, he expounds virtues and morals yet he has little to none.
  • We are not worried about petty morals. READY, STEADY, GO!: Swinging London and the Invention of Cool
  • Shchukin grasped at once that Nymph and Satyr was an affront to decency and morals, which only increased his impatience to possess it. My Kind of Collector
  • But I'm guessing the pictures on the screens and most of the reportage in the papers is nothing to do with morals or politics.
  • They spoke of manners and morals, political corruption and social hypocrisy, patriotism and prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Religion is not reducible to morals but they are the sign of its authenticity.
  • Raids were also conducted on premises to look for any behavior which might affront public morals.
  • Morals give love of God content; in our time ‘love’ has been emptied of content through overuse and misuse.
  • The film follows his personal torment and guilt-ridden reevaluation of his morals, as well as the still-living victim Clea DuVall whose recuperation process in turn makes her into a more cynical and bitter person. Scott Mendelson: Artistic Comeback? From Where? Matthew McConaughey's Best Films, Post-Stardom
  • Playing Desert Storm on my Sega console had not only eroded my morals, it had disturbed my beauty sleep.
  • Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Albert Schweitzer 
  • But it did cause an almighty fuss nationwide, which only enhanced the notion that so many people were still so very Victorian in their morals. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although they sturdily protected public morals by preventing the sound of a toilet's flushing being heard on stage and routinely objected to bed scenes and bare flesh, they were neither infallible nor inflexible.
  • There are too many powerful men who truly believe that the Waltons offer dandy advice on life and morals.
  • While their contrarieties indicate a different external civilization, a slight acquaintance with their morals proves their similarity to their fellowmen in the lineaments of a fallen nature. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • What was now to his cynical mind screamingly funny about the American -- his sensitive delicate feelings, his high standard of morals with regard to what he called the ladies, and illusions that one would rarely find in London in The Limit
  • By knowing and controlling nature, men bettered their physical lot, gaining the leisure needed to cultivate minds and morals.

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