He came here neither to deliver moral maxims nor to exude empathy, but to spew blood.
Several conservative bishops took to the altar to deliver moral condemnation, but none topped Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, the bishop of Cancún, a city not generally known for starched morals.
"The Key Fund is itself a social enterprise – we deliver moral capital to other social enterprises in the form of loans and patient finance.
Perhaps the aim of these dramas is not to deliver moral messages, but to animate an hour of television by putting life into the law.
And while I perfectly well understand their touching displays of loyalty to their sponsor, I'm not sure they're really in a position to deliver moral lectures," he wrote in The Sunday Times.
In the numerous committees on which she served her task was almost always to find schemes that everyone could agree would work, and not to deliver moral guidance from axiomatic principles.
In Works and Days, Hesiod shifts his attention to humanity, delivering moral precepts and practical advice regarding agriculture, navigation, and many other matters; along the way he gives us the myths of Pandora and of the Golden, Silver, and other Races of Men.
On Rawls's account, for example, philosophical theories of the truth are the sort of thing over which reasonable people are assumed to disagree, and so an account of public reason cannot purport to deliver moral or political principles that are "true" according to some particular philosophical conception of truth; rather it can only deliver principles that are "reasonable" (Rawls 1996, 94).
It's all produced quite a spectacle, to the extent that Putin -- I'm told miming what he sees as the irritating American practice of delivering moral lectures to other countries -- produced a chutzpah-filled New York Times op-ed taking Obama to task on "American exceptionalism" in particular and American geopolitical strategy in general.
It's impossible to miss and difficult to misconstrue the point the show is trying to make when Mindy delivers the moral; the humor comes mostly from hearing moral preaching from a character who is gleefully shallow, politically incorrect and often selfish.
