Sentence examples for a moral thrust from inspiring English sources

"There is a moral thrust of the story," said Ruffalo.

None of this myth-making is irrelevant, but there is a moral thrust to it that a viewer doesn't feel in the paintings themselves.

Nothing I know about Mr. Morrisroe personally makes him sound lovable; his art has none of the moral thrust that fueled the work of a contemporary like David Wojnarowicz.

Zibby (a delightfully unaffected performance by Elizabeth Olsen) is the film's chief catalyst, and her attraction to (and for) a man 16 years her senior provides the dramatic and moral thrust.

In response, Ford offered its own, more succinct, moral thrust.

Here, he switches in an instant from seductive friendliness to blood-freezing menace, determining the movie's tone and focusing its moral thrust.

It may, like "The Great Train Robbery," owe something to 3-D, but the posthumous application of 3-D would not sharpen — and might even vulgarize — its moral thrust.

The moral thrust of doctor-assisted suicide is the equivalent of telling someone standing on the edge of a bridge or building to jump.

Coming from an affluent place, it doesn't take many street beggars to thrust you into a moral crisis trying to rationalise wealth.

For example, in the Kitty Genovese case, the bystanders did not have a moral obligation to risk their lives by thrusting themselves in the middle of the attack; calling the police would have been sufficient.

"A Moral Flip-Flop?