Sentence examples for a moralistic message from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mas said it would be a mistake to think that his work was intended to glorify or sanctify obesity, or even to deliver a moralistic message that one should not discriminate against the overweight.

As in "Hank Williams: Lost Highway" and "Dream a Little Dream," this show manages to romanticize the pop star way of life, while also promoting a moralistic message: too much drugs and sex will ruin you.

On one side of the cultural divide, the pro-books side, our answers align against moralistic messages, against utility, against excisions of any kind.

It seems wrapped up in the FMLN's origin story, in which guerillas appealed to ordinary Salvadorans through moralistic messages and rousing songs.

Unlike the "Gossip Girl" books that came of age in the 2000s, Ms. Pascal's series was relatively tame, without explicit sex scenes or vulgarities, and often with highly moralistic messages.

Film critics fought long and hard to liberate American culture from the tyranny of trite, moralistic messages and no one was more effective than the late Pauline Kael, film critic at the New Yorker.

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.

The first repertoire identified was "sex is not for fun" and reflected a moralistic construction of girls' sexual and reproductive health that emphasized abstinence, and sent contradictory messages regarding contraceptive use.

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.