Any high-minded moral claims to the contrary are dangerous pretensions.
Indeed, one might go further and claim that ethics are an animal affair - a matter of our fleshy, compassionate bodies, not of some high-minded moral law.
Back at the mine, a friend of Kaji's teases him for his high-minded moral ardor: "You'll ride the humanism train, no matter how much it costs you".
Occasional digressions into high-minded moral questions and certain narrative innovations, like a series of word problems, pull us away at critical moments — particularly at the end, when we're most concerned with Rory's decision-making and "sorrowful circumstances".
The End Demand folks who are pushing this agenda are not concerned with the rights and safety of the women and men who sell sex; they are on some kind of high-minded moral crusade to "rescue" people who don't want or need to be rescued.
The toxins Mr. Vidal was identifying in 1960 as hovering threats on the democratic horizon are now confirmed facts of political life, so that this once-trenchant drama — concerning a battle for the nomination between a high-minded, deeply moral candidate and his canny, cutthroat rival — feels like a civics lesson drawn from a long out-of-date textbook.
"The Jinx" is wickedly entertaining: funny, morbid, and sad, at once exploitative and high-minded, a moral lasagna of questionable aesthetic choices (including reconstructions of ghastly events) and riveting interviews (of Durst, but also of other eccentrics, like his chain-smoking-hot second wife).
If Fanny, with all her high-minded misjudgments, represents "moral law" as the prince says -- what kind of law is this?
Eventually they descend from their high-minded privations to the moral confusion of city life.
A colossus of world cinema, Ingmar Bergman influenced a generation of film-makers who were inspired both by his effortless command of the medium and his high-minded sense of its moral and artistic possibilities.
It will take a tough but high-minded approach - a moral, political approach - to crush Trump in November and make it clear that democracy has been reaffirmed, and that bigotry has been rejected.
