Sentence examples for assumption of moral from inspiring English sources
What I hate is the fawning, the assumption of moral superiority, the disdain for other styles.
What I find most offensive, honestly, is self-righteousness, the assumption of moral superiority.
When Angus Jackson's fine production of Edward Bond's bony masterpiece was first seen in Chichester two years ago, a respected colleague attacked the author for his assumption of moral superiority over Shakespeare.
"My worries are twofold," Mr. Horovitz writes: "that the assumption of moral right, surely a key psychological factor in the successes between 1948 and 1973, has been blown away by the Lebanon war and the Intifada; and that the last of our military 'victories,' that turnaround from near defeat in the Yom Kippur War,... came a generation ago".
Bulstrode wields a disapproving moral force in the town of Middlemarch through the exercise of his philanthropic and political power — but he has a guilty secret that undermines his assumption of moral authority, the ultimate exposure of which reveals him to be a hypocrite, and worse.
What is missing is any assumption of moral -- not to mention legal -- responsibility for the perpetrators of these crimes.
Educated v less educated may be even more toxic than rich v poor, because it comes laden with assumptions of moral superiority.
Old assumptions of moral and civilizational superiority shape the neo-liberal view of Chinese and Indian history, in which the Indians and Chinese appear as deluded socialists and famine-struck peasants, who could only have been saved by western-style neo-liberalism.
And no one undermined British assumptions of moral and legal custodianship better than Gandhi, who was adept both at galvanizing the Indian masses and at alerting the British to the gap between their high claims and the reality of their rule.
Another version of the criticism that cosmopolitanism is impossible targets the psychological assumptions of moral cosmopolitanism.
Europe's present-day assumption of the moral high ground over a conflict it helped to shape is breathtakingly audacious.
