Sentence examples for in moralistic from inspiring English sources

To speak in moralistic terms about good and evil — terms rarely used in German — is to project American sensibilities.

America's marijuana laws usually expressed that fear of outsiders in moralistic terms, while proving ineffective at stopping pot use.

Americans have a marked tendency to see foreign policy in moralistic terms as a battle of good against evil or western values against barbarism.

Privately, many of her ex-colleagues from the first President Bush's National Security Council say that it is rooted in her Christian faith, which leads her to see the world in moralistic terms, much as the President does.

This time, the Coens expressed open affection for their lunkheads: Hi and Ed talk in moralistic platitudes culled from the Bible and self-help manuals, and, loving their snatched quint, they desperately want to do what's right — that's the comedy built into their outrageous behavior.

Like most of the midcentury's other noirish tales of this hard-bitten milieu -- The Day of the Locust," "The Deer Park," "His Girl Friday," "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" "What Makes Sammy Run?"- "Sweet Smell" depicted the occupations of people like Winchell in moralistic terms.

According to Kennan, when American policymakers suddenly confronted the Cold War, they had inherited little more than rationale and rhetoric "utopian in expectations, legalistic in concept, moralistic in [the] demand it seemed to place on others, and self-righteous in the degree of high-mindedness and rectitude ... to ourselves".

This allows Ellis to skilfully, "with writerly jujitsu", acknowledge Robert Downey Jr.'s popular performance as Julian in the moralistic 1987 film, in which he died; Ellis appreciates the adaptation as a "milestone in a lot of ways".

I'm recognised – and I'm sorry if this sounds vain – for long metaphors and rhythmic prose that is poetic and very structured in nature, moralistic and not ironic in tone.

Most of us don't use the word in our day-to-day lives, though we might run across it in a moralistic 18th-century novel or, as Merriam-Webster points out, in recent political speech: "Both Senator John McCain and Governor Chris Christie, among others, have used the word in highly publicized speeches or debates". .

If they were to be linked at all, it could only be in a moralistic reflection on the cultural decline embodied in their being the archetypal British-based celebrities of their respective eras.