Sentence examples for earnest morality from inspiring English sources
Despite his best efforts -- and a pretty decent brogue -- Mr. Madsen fails to elevate this earnest morality tale, written, produced and directed by Mark Mahon, above excessive banality.
His batch of new films -- a goofy sex farce, an earnest morality tale and a bloody crime thriller -- suggest an eagerness not just to keep busy but also to stretch.
Neither the filmmakers nor the actors can figure out whether to play this dubious premise as comedy or as earnest morality tale, and Mr. Garcia spends most of the picture looking stricken and self-pitying.
If Jonathan Fitzgerald is right that the New Sincerity is making a new, earnest morality possible, it's also the case a that a New and Faithful Pluralism is helping more and more Christians explore themes like these, saved anew by the radical implications of a God bound by love over retributive justice.
They saw a manic, infantile regression that broke through the blandness of public life, the ingenuous democratic fantasy that shattered the hypocrisy of earnest public morality.
The two younger brothers wrote and starred in "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood," produced by Keenen, which took aim at earnest hip-hop morality tales like "Boyz N the Hood".
And like its predecessors, Shank (teen slang for knifing) gives teenagers a lot of what they want – sex, booze, video game graphics, beatings – before administering an earnest, last-minute dose of morality, which, weirdly, is enough to get the film the endorsement of the Damilola Taylor Trust.
"Throughout the nation, Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality and practicality of physician-assisted suicide," Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote.
Earnest declined to comment on the morality of America's decision to drop the atomic bomb, for which there have been calls for the country to apologise.
Rev. Thomas S. Hinde was said to be, "...exceedingly earnest, and very zealous in promoting the interests of the Church and of religion and morality.
The real devils in this morality play are the candidates themselves, who unleash their legions of experts and consultants to prey on the earnest, unsuspecting journalists, tricking them into doing their bidding.
