Sentence examples for avoid moralizing from inspiring English sources

Often, it's somewhere in between, and Benjamin's own stories usually avoid moralizing altogether.

How do you avoid moralizing in that context? A. I think the tone is really set by the real people themselves, because the way they take that stuff in stride is how the film needed to take it in stride.

According to Ms. Woodlawn, it was Mr. Morrissey's determination to avoid moralizing in his films that made them so popular, particularly among audiences who do not share the filmmaker's political or religious views.

It is important to avoid moralizing phraseology ('face up to', 'keep going') and closed questions ('Are you in a good mood? Are you coping?') which risk blocking the expression of the experienced feelings and increasing the sensation of guilt due the patient's perception of his or her depressed state.

When communicating with others, seek to avoid ordering, moralizing, demanding, threatening, or excessively needling them with questions aimed at eliciting too much information.

Grimani's libretto avoids the "moralizing" tone of the later opera seria libretti written by acknowledged masters such as Metastasio and Zeno.

The script by Richard Brooks, who also directed the film, was notable for its treatment of hypocrisy and opportunism while avoiding excessive moralizing.

"The Emperor's New Groove," directed by Mark Dindal, shrewdly avoids pompous moralizing in favor of zany high jinks and snide, adolescent jokes, which Mr. Spade delivers with a typically smug twerpiness that suits the role just fine.

Spunkier than a similar Disney animated adventure, "The Road to El Dorado," Mark Dinda's film "shrewdly avoids pompous moralizing in favor of zany high jinks and snide, adolescent jokes" (Stephen Holden).

In order to create this fantastic conceit, the filmmakers, drawing on Ishiguro, have exploited the current scientific controversies, but they avoid the usual moralizing, the debates about bioethics.

This year has brought, along with a flood of worse-than-average blockbusters, some better-than-average growing-up movies (including "Save the Last Dance" and "Crazy/Beautiful") as well as two -- Jim McKay's "Our Song and John Singletonn's "Baby Boy" -- that miraculously transcend the conventions of the subject matter while avoiding cheap laughs and exploitative moralizing.