Sentence examples for be a moralistic from inspiring English sources

This seems to be a moralistic painting about vanity, but it is gentle and whimsical.

The funniest thing is that "Naked Lunch" turns out to be a moralistic book, making a better, truer, scarier case against becoming a junkie than whatever nonsense you were liable to be hearing in health ed.

In fact, Machiavelli was a moralistic thinker.

"In a traditional mind-set, there was a moralistic status to having paid off your home," Professor Morris said.

Dan (Carell) is a moralistic newspaper columnist, a widower, and a strict but beleaguered father of three daughters, two of them teen-agers.

There's a moralistic tone to his work; for example, on the album Bigger and Blacker (1999), on the subject of single mothers, he says: "You could do it without a man, but that means it's going to be done shit.

The idea that Goethe's poetry was "paralysed by the disappointments of fulfilled desire" - that he was caught in "the prison of sated appetite" - is a moralistic misreading that sees spiritual sloth and inertia where there was balance and stasis in a present moment.

And it would probably be fair to say that the view of art held by the government of the U.S.S.R. was a moralistic one: works of fiction and poems had to praise communism or further its doctrines, and works of music had to be melodic and singable (composers such as Dmitry Shostakovich were often condemned by the Soviet hierarchy as "too German" or "too materialistic").

So it's a moralistic crossover.

Without being a moralistic about it, I'm for freedom of speech and pornography comes under that heading, but there's a downside to it too obviously because misogyny is so pervasive in our society right now, more so than ever I think.

Although their songs are about the decadence one associates with Hollywood, there also seems to be a strange, moralistic overtone to some of them.