Sentence examples for dirty morals from inspiring English sources

With Thandie Newton, ravishing yet implausible, as an accountant with dirty morals.

Peter and Paul are clad in white, with long shorts and matching gloves: angels with dirty morals, perhaps, or ghostly spoilsports ejected long ago from one of Gatsby's parties, who have prowled the shoreline ever since in search of trouble.

They are seen as dirty, lacking morals, and burdens on society.

Both dirty hands and moral dilemmas challenge the idea that some moral prohibitions or negative duties are "absolute" though they do so in different ways.

Both the categories of dirty hands and moral dilemma involve agonising choice in which there will be grave moral loss either way.

He had done his company's moral dirty work, taken its guilt as his own, and then been betrayed and discarded, like a form of waste.

This is the special feature that marks off dirty hands from moral dilemmas.

Dirty deeds and niffy morals are also at the heart of Kyril Bonfiglioli's comic masterpiece, The Mortdecai Trilogy (lately reissued by Penguin, £7.99).

The moral remainder and the remorse it generates signals the tribute that dirty hands pays to moral absolutism.

Recent experiments have shown, for example, that the feeling of disgust induced by the exposure to a bad smell or dirty looking room makes moral judgments more severe (Schnall et alia 2008a), and that subjects who physically cleanse themselves then find certain moral actions to be less wrong than do participants not exposed to a cleanliness manipulation (Schnall et alia 2008b).

While actually rejecting moral absolutes, the dirty hands theorist remains entranced by the significance they give to certain moral constraints.