In their attempt to convince the Bang brothers of the moral soundness of the heist, Jimmy and Clyde refer back to a former boss of Mellie's who, when she was promoted to manager of the grocery store where she worked, became "handsy".
A parental desire doesn't have automatic moral soundness (let alone legality).
The American College Dictionary defines integrity as: "soundness of moral principle and character; uprightness; honesty; the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished, sound, unimpaired, or in perfect condition".
This, I suspect, is the kernel of wisdom in the overused accusation of "virtue signalling", an insult thrown at people suspected of being more interested in flaunting their progressive credentials – as anti-racist, anti-sexist, etc – than actually being moral.
"While it may embody a noble aspiration and provide a source of courage and moral sustenance, it is, by its nature, founded on a kernel of fiction.
In columns that read like essays in moral philosophy, posing a series of hypothetical scenarios until the kernel of a problem has been exposed, Kinsley reaches destinations uncomfortable for both them and him.
Their kernels of wisdom will feed your own entrepreneurial spirit! .
Her stomach contained one kernel of corn.
But there was that kernel of doubt.
A kernel of corn, she thinks.
Both arguments hold a kernel of truth.
