Sentence examples for a moralistic dimension from inspiring English sources

Murphy [ 26] has described infant feeding as a "moral minefield" with women being judged by others or themselves over their choice of infant feeding, young women have described it as 'immoral' to breastfeed in public [ 27], while Lee [ 28] has described the "breast is best" message as having a moralistic dimension in addition to its health message.

In fact, Machiavelli was a moralistic thinker.

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

Oh come on now, I obviously didn't mean "should" in a moralistic sense.

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.

Back home, Mr. Osborne descends from his transcendent heights, and in New York ("a moralistic and corporate city") finds himself on the same boring plain: "Throughout this journey I had had the same feeling that I had not been 'abroad' anywhere, that I had simply moved through different dimensions of a single human contemporaneity".

This seems to be a moralistic painting about vanity, but it is gentle and whimsical.

A moralistic approach toward the Soviet Union undermined Carter's early desire to reduce East-West conflicts and cut nuclear arms.

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