Sentence examples for act of moral rectitude from inspiring English sources

As the opening episode in the recent movie Inglourious Basterds demonstrates, telling the truth to a Nazi who asks if there are Jews hidden under your floorboards is not an act of moral rectitude.

He was expelled from the Young Communists for lack of moral rectitude.

Maybe we should rethink our foreign policy from the ground up, rather than bombing someone else's country into dust to compensate for our lack of moral rectitude.

Revulsion at his act of killing might cause such a person to embark thereafter on a life of moral rectitude.

The simple farm boy from Kansas was morally grounded in that same post-Depression sense of moral rectitude that informed Preston Sturges or John Steinbeck.

He will set an example of moral rectitude.

But his sense of moral rectitude has not kept him from working with authoritarian governments.

The New Yorker, June 12 , 1926 P. 17Aimee's patents of moral rectitude are pungent black coffee and leek soup.

Dannatt, a mildly spoken man who conveys a palpable sense of moral rectitude, rejects the accusation out of hand.

At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.

This is a neon-bright sign of corporate retrenchment in the face of protest, bad press and flashes of moral rectitude.