Sentence examples for a moralistic from inspiring English sources

In fact, Machiavelli was a moralistic thinker.

"Why is this such a moralistic issue?" he asked.

His films are moral, but he's not a moralistic man.

An abstinence-only program without a moralistic tone can delay teenagers from having sex, researchers say.

But he had something that was very important: a moralistic approach to everything.

Even the rhetoric of inflation — the "debasement" of the currency — carries a moralistic tinge.

The threat of human-induced climate change has become the occasion for a moralistic revival meeting.

"Back in the 80s we were quite a moralistic bunch of students," he says.

To the NCSF, this implies a moralistic legal system firmly embedded in puritanism.

Words like these led critics to castigate Mr. McGovern as a moralistic scold who was angry at his own country.

EU ministers nevertheless rejected it, striking a moralistic note by insisting on sharp limits to such flexibility.