Sentence examples for a moralistic argument from inspiring English sources

Before you skip over the rest of the article so you can finish up your crib notes, let me explain that this not a moralistic argument.

FAMILY planning and birth control is one of many areas where America has gotten itself wrapped up in a decades-long hysterical moralistic argument over issues whose solutions ought to be obvious to any mature adult.

Note that Dworkin construes-or misconstrues-MacKinnon's argument as a version of the old moralistic argument that objects to pornography on grounds of its offensiveness; and, as we have seen, liberals reject offense as legitimate grounds for preventing the voluntary consumption of pornography in private.

Ronald J. Tabak, a lawyer in New York who has argued death penalty cases, said that legislators were coming to understand that they could vote to abolish the death penalty without losing their next election, so long as they avoided moralistic arguments and focused instead on factors like accuracy, fairness and cost.

Through most of that July the British prime minister had been asking his military chiefs to reconsider the question of using poison gas against Germany, telling them he wanted "cold-blooded calculation" rather than moralistic arguments about the unique iniquity of chemical weapons.

In fact, Machiavelli was a moralistic thinker.

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

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.