Sentence examples for ethical superiority from inspiring English sources

Blackness in "The Expendable Man" occupies a position of ethical superiority.

Is it fair to ask female athletes to carry a burden of moral or ethical superiority that male athletes are not expected to carry?

5. Virtue signalling A new way of accusing someone of being sanctimonious or smug is to say that they are advertising their ethical superiority.

He can be fought only by maintaining a moral and ethical superiority, as exemplified in an open, pluralistic society," Dayan Jayatilleka wrote in his column, when he heard of Sivaram's death.

I giggled as I read Thomas L. Friedman's April 21 column, "Changing the Channel," about the moral and ethical superiority of those playing and reporting on the game of golf in comparison with the duplicitous, warring politicians and media commentators involved in the Middle East conflict and the war on terror.

In effect, the writer creates several clusters of attitudinal stances, creating out of them a type of constellation of stances (c.f. Maton 2014: 168) which act to reinforce their positive axiological charge, i.e. their moral or ethical superiority.

What caused serious consternation in India was her assertion that, as a part of the independence movement, many spurious claims were propounded with regard to India's ethical and moral superiority.

But in recent decades, when even the notion of civilization has come under challenge for its claims of ethical and social superiority, Aeneas has sometimes been portrayed as a kind of patsy for imperialism, mouthing higher goals while succumbing to reckless fury as he spills the bowels of his enemies on the earth.

Allison is that rare combination: a reality-oriented, intellectual businessman able to recognize the ethical and productive superiority of laissez-faire capitalism and its rule of law.

Their point-counterpoint debate was perhaps the best evidence yet that being an ethics expert is no guarantee of ethical infallibility, much less moral superiority.

There is truly no better time to assert our moral superiority, to affirm our ethical evolution, than when we confront ancient rituals like that of the ordeal of the bitter waters for a woman suspected of adultery, that we find in this week's parashah, Naso.