Sentence examples for feel principled from inspiring English sources

In contrast to those of so many of her confession-minded peers, her shock tactics feel principled, driven less by narcissism or the need for self-justification than by some loftier impulse: a desire to capture the past as it was, undistorted by faulty memories, moral judgments or decorative literary flourishes.

I'm not voting for Johnson because of some complex moral calculus or because I think my vote will help to advance the future libertarian cause, I'll be voting for him because, selfishly, that way I'll feel more principled.

I grew up in a leftwing culture of this kind and we all felt very principled and even, in a sense, blessed because of our embrace of the true faith.

Do you feel it is principled, or irresponsible, for politicians to threaten a shutdown?

"We don't feel there are principled differences at all," the official said.

Kant, and the authors, feel that as principled providers of health care, the duty to help (outliers) is imposed on us not only in acknowledging that our patients are worthy ends in themselves, but that we should also advance their ends.

Max Brenner exploits the automatic respect that diners feel for a principled culinary artist and hitches it to a mass-market endeavor as gimmicky as Planet Hollywood.

While all the Kennedys opposed the war, she felt he had been principled in going.

Critics often describe Bush as "incurious" about the world, but that word hardly does justice to what feels almost like a principled provincialism.

Some, one presumes, feel so strongly for principled reasons.

People want to feel good by bringing principled leadership to their business and family lives.