Sentence examples for comfortable moral from inspiring English sources

Those who care not a jot about any of these things are perhaps in the most comfortable moral setting of all.

He is warning him against naiveté in his romantic engagements, but the line reminds us of the chaos to come, and challenges our comfortable moral sense that we would surely have behaved better in the same circumstances.

"Can you not accept that in fact when we look at a country whose judicial system we do not in many respects approve of, engagement is far better than disengagement and that disengagement may be a comfortable, moral position but it leads to no progress whatsoever".

Shortly before the ship strikes the iceberg, Scurra tells Morgan, "My dear boy … have you not yet learned that it's every man for himself". He is warning him against naiveté in his romantic engagements, but the line reminds us of the chaos to come, and challenges our comfortable moral sense that we would surely have behaved better in the same circumstances.

"Classic literature refuses to let a reader occupy a comfortable moral position," said Franzen.

He is concerned primarily with creating a safe, comfortable and moral life for his wife and two young children.

Though she has few viable options, she is no mere victim, and Fontaine disallows any comfortable high moral ground.

Fans can find many of the same strengths in Mr. Kerrigan's work, which is also at home on both sides of the law and comfortable with moral murkiness.

I think we have to be comfortable with moral ambiguity, and most people aren't".

And thus Seattle Man maintains his comfortable sense of moral superiority.

Bichir is much better, as a decent man working in a corrupt system, comfortable with blurred moral lines, including those of his own marriage.