Sentence examples for essentially moral from inspiring English sources

But I remain doubtful and remain worried about the prospect of weakening possibly essential and essentially moral responses.

The critic Edward B. Savage asserts that despite the lack of a moral compass in virtually all the main characters, Busenello's plot is itself essentially moral, and that "this morality is sustained by the phenomenon of dramatic irony".

According to Dworkin's theory, unlike legal rules, which may or may not have something to do with morality, principles are essentially moral in their content.

Law may have an essentially moral character and yet be morally deficient.

"The law," it said, "is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the Due Process Clause, the courts will be very busy indeed".

The other two emotions that we have looked at are also essentially moral: contrition is a construal of oneself as morally at fault and spoiled, and here the idea of God as judge is involved; and gratitude, as a construal of oneself as indebted for a gift, has reference to a kind of justice (though it is clearly not standard retributive justice [see Roberts 2004]).

DiIulio argues that crime is essentially a moral problem, and that its solution must be found in the moral realm.

You can't fight what is essentially a moral critique with economics.

Virtually everything worthwhile written about American poverty is essentially about moral failure.

Where the Argentinian debate was essentially a moral one – was football about beauty or about winning?

In another remarkable formulation, Keynes wrote: "Economics is essentially a moral science".