Sentence examples for less morality from inspiring English sources

The prescription for overweight Britain is clear: less bariatrics, more sociology; less morality, more politics.

Being able to defend myself effectively helps me to feel safe, dignified and self-worthy; being a civilised, disarmed Englishman, at the mercy of anyone with more muscle and less morality, would feel ghastly by comparison.MATTHEW MOOREBellevue, WashingtonLeading the chargeSIR Bagehot (April 24th) says that Lady Thatcher persuaded George Bush to go to war to rescue Kuwait from Saddam Hussein.

"[H]ow can we shun them," she asks rhetorically, "when they won't go away?" Kipnis goes on to chastise the rest of us for enabling these public acts of quasi-contrition; that is, for maintaining a foundation-less morality that'll let anyone off the hook and forgive any kind of hypocrisy.

The morality of an action is never legitimized by saying a less moral individual would do the same or worse.

"For conservatives, it's less about morality but rather a public policy issue," he said.

It may bear down less on morality than on mere good manners, propriety, or adjustment to the prevailing social code.

Shadowed by the paranoia of its period (the early '70s), this movie, crisply directed by Lasse Hallstrom from an excellent script by William Weaver, is less a morality play than an entertaining portrait of a literary gambler.

The Star Wars franchise has always been a more or less straightforward morality tale.

But to assume so, I think, would be to give too much credit to a film that is ultimately less interested in morality and ethics than in maintaining suspense by any means necessary.

As Greater Good has pointed out, callousness has a cost: suppressing empathy forces people into a state of cognitive dissonance in which they begin to either value morality less or relax their standards for moral behavior.

The researchers suggest that people alleviate this conflict by either placing less importance on morality or relaxing their adherence to moral principles.