Sentence examples for banal morality from inspiring English sources
"Where once politicians who were considering matters of life and death might have been thought to be helped in their decision-making by Christian thinking – by reflecting on the tradition of Augustine and Aquinas, by applying the subtle tests of just-war doctrine – now Christianity means the banal morality of the fairy tale and genuflection before a sky pixie's simplicities," writes Gove.
Therefore don't equate the parable with banal morality tales meant to extol hard work and integrity.
It's a final measure of the show's confusion that, though it rests on the banal argument that money corrupts morality, it can't have a happy ending until it makes the good guys rich.
While the academic field of ethics engages with abstract questions of morality, everyday ethics focuses on the ordinary, sometimes banal decisions we all make in our daily lives.
(Sure enough, one did: "OK, this sounds dramatic. What's the story?") Or have I– have most of us succumbed to the tedious, excessively revelatory ways of modern American society, which assumes that every ounce of everyone's life constitutes a narrative-in-waiting, a parable, a morality tale which assumes, in fact, that nothing is ever banal.
But in the days since news of that accusation broke, reporting on the milieu from which Kavanaugh emerged has painted an ugly portrait of elite American society as both bacchanalian and banal, a nepotacracy where connections matter far more than any semblance or strain of morality.
