Those who embraced the theory of "sacred sin" believed that the Torah could be fulfilled only by amoral acts representing its seeming annulment.
Recalling the horrific impression she got from the film American Beauty, she was sure that the amoral acts of the story represented American life.
Way too many times have I been incensed when the Bush administration used Office of Legal Council (OLC) memoranda, or opinions, to justify and approve what I felt were clearly unconstitutional, illegal and amoral acts.
In the early 21st century, we have a different form of trust-busting going on -- inept, illegal and amoral acts engaged in by some businesses, politicians and individuals that are destroying the bonds of confidence and faith in each other that bind the nation together.
Here's the thing about picture-collecting voyeurism: desire may be amoral, but the act of taking iPhone photos of non-consenting individuals in order to get your rocks off doesn't happen without consequences.
In Mr. Beresford's production the Duke of Mantua, that amoral playboy whose third-act aria "La donna e mobile" rings in everyone's head, is now Duke Mantua, "head of a thriving production company," in the words of the program.
For Walter Chatton, Ockham and Wodeham's position on the amoral status of external acts leads to unsavory consequences.
In my opinion, the way they acted is appalling, amoral and extremely unethical".
Her idea of France, offered after thirty-odd years of residence and salon-keeping in that country, is that it is an ahistorical and amoral country, where time stands still and acts are judged by what she calls "logic" and "fashion" — what we might call, on the one hand, "inner aplomb," and, on the other, "high style".
He notes that "where someone's sense of honorable behaviour has left him unable to act, trickster will appear to suggest an amoral action, something right/wrong that will get life going again".
