Sentence examples for active morality from inspiring English sources

His earlier plays had the passive wistfulness of Henry James portraits of unlived lives; "Crazy Mary" has the active morality of E. M. Forster novels, demanding that its characters get off their isolated duffs and connect with the world beyond.

It is a sign that the new president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, will continue the move under Mr. Putin to be more active in promoting morality and optimism about Russia's future.

There's a strange Victorian morality about being sexually active that I don't share, as long as it's consensual.

Moralizing high gods were defined as beings that created the cosmos, were active in human affairs, and were invested in morality.

Most active members of society remain at stage four, where morality is still predominantly dictated by an outside force.

Nobility is the active affect most closely related to Spinoza's views about morality and the state.

Economics has to be subordinate to morality, and the State as a sustainer of the moral community has to take an active role providing the conditions in which this transformations can take place.

Such love seems to be a matter of motivationally active feeling rather than of being rational, and some writers on morality (eventually) allowed this side of Christianity to have a major influence on what they had to say about virtue.

We are meant to be complicit in the savage excitement that the moviemaking creates — and therefore active in the incessant debate among the Israelis (Tony Kushner and Eric Roth wrote the screenplay) over the morality of targeted assassination and retaliation.

WHENCE morality?

Christian morality?