Sentence examples for a moral quest from inspiring English sources

We commonly think of the civil-rights era as a moral quest for equality.

The body, to Volynsky, is "a scroll of ideas," and ballet a moral quest or nothing.

McCain's view of politics as a moral quest, and his seeming frankness, endeared him to the press.

MIAMI — In both word and deed, Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County has long approached crime fighting as a moral quest, a clear-cut fight between good and evil, with no-nonsense punishments for offenders.

The story he invents in a series of drawings titled "After the Woods" (2003, detail above) is like a science fiction "Faerie Queene" involving a moral quest, a hard-won marriage, unearthly creatures and Big Science.

One way is to reintroduce the hero or a character on a moral quest, or give the anti-hero an antagonist.

She has taken what she believes to be her primary burden and turned it into a lifelong moral quest: to be a writer by being more than a writer.

Yet Spinoza introduced a conception of philosophizing that was new to the Renaissance; philosophy became a personal and moral quest for wisdom and the achievement of human perfection.

But Mr. Cavell shows that the spirit of moral quest has an unusual power, even in the restricted world of these films.

The world must be given a proper plan to follow if it is to succeed in its moral quest.

Exposing Madoff became Markopolos's intellectual and moral quest, his mania, his life.