Sentence examples for a supreme value from inspiring English sources

The sexual revolution led to a "feminine Bovaryism that is sanctified as a supreme value in relations between the sexes".

Increasingly, as national feeling became a supreme value, Jews would come to be seen as rootless and cosmopolitan.

But then, other than a few courageous Arab liberals, Arab intellectuals have not made democracy promotion a supreme value either.

But safety should not be paramount; it is not a supreme value; it should not be the altar at which freedom is sacrificed.

To the extent that it is, it is used as a tool to beat up on enemies, not a supreme value to be promoted for everyone.

Individual choice is put forward as a supreme value, without reference to social cohesion or the needs of the local community.

The problem here, to extend his line of argument, may be that you want a dentist whose supreme value is to avoid inflicting pain; yet who, with that supreme value, would ever become a dentist?

Britton sees the film more as concerned with the "vulnerability of children and the need to protect and guard them", which in turn helps generate a "pervasive sense of the supreme value of family life: a value clearly related to [ideological] stability and cultural continuity".

This shift from oral storytelling to unchanging scripture as the way wisdom, morality and a sense of the sacred (supreme value) is generationally passed forward set the stage (albeit centuries later) for a profound and now exponentially growing mismatch.

It presides over a society in which personal choice is the supreme value and risk-taking has become an essential ingredient of the good life.

The breakdown of the barrier between the public and the private makes acting an even riskier business, and plenty of young performers respond with a prudent and responsible professionalism, the supreme value of the age.