Sentence examples for fit of morality from inspiring English sources

The 21st century finds the national press in an almost permanent fit of morality, and it frequently looks not just ridiculous but hypocritical.

The British public is in one of its fits of morality right now but this will pass.

The historian Lord Macaulay observed in 1830 that "we know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality".

The British public is in one of its fits of morality right now but this will pass". Sir Thomas's reading of the riot act is admirable.

Welcome to the new House of Commons, courtesy of the Barclay brothers and a British public going through one of its periodic fits of morality.

NO SPECTACLE is "so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality", harrumphed Thomas Macaulay, a Victorian historian.

The great historian Macaulay wrote that there was nothing "so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality".

"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality," wrote Lord Macaulay in 1830, and West is inclined to agree.

It's that he decided the best way to deal with the ridiculous spectacle of the English media in one of its periodical fits of morality was a 70-minute PowerPoint presentation.

One case followed another, and Wilde went to prison, largely as a result of the government's need to pacify the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality.

Once again, it seems apposite to quote MP Denis MacShane's open letter to Michael Martin in May, in which he called for the Speaker to resign, but smugly predicted the Commons "will survive this scandal as it survived earlier scandals... The great historian Macaulay wrote that there was nothing 'so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality'.