Sentence examples for a moral reference from inspiring English sources

Using the Holocaust as a moral reference point can be a force for good, but the mayor's record in this regard is lamentable.

Just how hard that introspection has been was illustrated when Grass, a moral reference to the Bundesrepublik, broke a 61-year silence and revealed that he served as a 17-year-old in the Waffen SS.

But is he an appropriate moral reference about what constitutes a civilised society?

This leads to a 'refashioning of political subjectivities as well as a redistribution of moral reference points', with the affirmation of an entrepreneurial ethos of cunning, risk taking and 'survival of the fittest' in strategies of both ascendance and survival (Banégas and Warnier 2001: 8; see also Petit and Mutambwa 2005).

He could not find a point of moral reference in contemporary society.

"In a society in crisis, in search of moral reference points, where money dominates everything, his action makes sense".

A few photographs retain their power to shock, becoming moral reference points, she writes.

Henry Portraitit of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986) The genius of McNaughton's Henry is his refusal to offer any clear frame of moral reference, leaving the audience only able to identify with the soulless killer, who murders robotically, without glee.

Where are the religious and moral references?

On the 30th anniversary, L'Osservatore Romano, the daily newspaper of Vatican City State, wrote that the film is filled with positive symbolism and moral references that can be related to Catholicism.

"María San Gil is a moral, political and emotional reference point," she said pointedly.Mr Rajoy wants to push the PP to the centre.