Sentence examples similar to feeling morally right from inspiring English sources
Anyone feeling morally superior to Americans should reflect on how Donald Trump feels about us.
I remember feeling morally, or even religiously, obliged to do it without even a whiff of gas and air - as if I had to earn the right to my baby, fight for it.
The slaughter of civilians is impossible to watch without feeling morally impelled to act.
After a while, I got tired of looking at it and feeling morally superior to its perpetrator and went home.
Others enjoy feeling morally superior through abstinence and sobriety.
For others, they may like feeling morally superior to a rich famous actor.
Also, people who constantly make the Holocaust a subject of discussion are feeling morally superior.
Voyeurism and Schadenfreude may be part of the appeal, but there's also a feeling that it's morally right to get these stories into the open, since the bad stuff always happens behind closed doors.
When achieving a morally right feeling is difficult, we call that achievement "virtuous"; otherwise, we describe people as acting or failing to act within the bounds of "propriety" (25).
She speculates that the reason for this is that feeling morally unclean (ie, disgusted) leads to feelings of moral wrongness and thus triggers increased ethical behaviour by instilling a desire to right the wrong.
