Sentence examples for her moralistic from inspiring English sources

Her pursuit of happiness and her moralistic judgment reflect Malick's critique of the Protestant doctrine of personal salvation: she evaluates her experience in terms of personal interest, of benefit or harm (the Protestant ethic underlying the spirit of capitalism); without mediation, she lacks the compass to wend her way through the complexities of life without reducing them to a linear scale.

In 1984 in Illinois, Pamela Knuckles strangled her overbearingly moralistic mother.

Her darkly moralistic version of la vie bohème takes place in the 1950s and '60s, not on scruffy Avenue B — where downtown artists tended to pride themselves on scraping along and being rejected by the Establishment — but on the fiercely status-conscious Upper East Side, only a short walk from Elaine's.

Viv Nicholson whose promise to "Spend, spend, spend!" appalled her neighbours, repelled the moralistic, and branded her forever on to the national psyche.

Our instructor peppered her lecture with moralistic maxims like, "You have two ears and one mouth for a reason".

Her father is frustrated, moralistic.

Women in particular, I think, will be cheered by her refusal to be cowed by this quasi-sexual or moralistic assault on her behaviour as a 15-year-old girl.

Indeed, her disposition is a large part of her problem, given the rigid, moralistic society she inhabits.

Marge is the moralistic force in her family and often provides a grounding voice in the midst of her family's antics by trying to maintain order in the Simpson household.

Hilary Kingsley in her book Soapbox discusses Mavis's reticent and moralistic personality as seen in her drinking habits: Mavis drinks fruit juices, but on special occasions sweet sherry: "two for Mavis is one too many" says Kingsley.

Her speeches are not fiery, moralistic or ideological but filled with pragmatic reasoning.