Sentence examples for literary morality from inspiring English sources

L'incoronazione di Poppea is frequently described as a story in which virtue is punished and greed rewarded, running counter to the normal conventions of literary morality.

In a departure from traditional literary morality, it is the adulterous liaison of Poppea and Nerone which triumphs, although this victory is demonstrated by history to have been transitory and hollow.

These include "Naturalism and Value", and "Value", both of which are reprinted in Alexander's Philosophical and Literary Pieces (1939); and "Morality as An Art" (1928).

Once lodged in the collective imagination, the murder drew comment not only from the hyperventilating press and outraged guardians of public safety and morality, but from literary lights of the day.

She stated that it reminded her of 18th century literary Romanticism, "which suggested that morality lay in nature and civilization was a corrupting influence".

1449) by Jędrzej Gałka, a follower of reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, and a high literary standard was achieved in a morality verse dialogue, Rozmowa Mistrza ze Śmiercią ("Dialogue Between the Master and Death").

Yet while the McGuffey Readers and their descendants used literature to try to inculcate young people with religious and civic morality, the claim that literary fiction strengthens empathy is a whole different kettle of fish.

Ms. al-Tahawy was selected to write for the magazine of the Muslim Brotherhood, focusing on themes of morality and virtue within a literary narrative.

But this novel, like so many of its great literary predecessors, forces us to question traditional morality and makes us complicit in its protagonist's misdeeds.

As embodied with languid grace by the actor Peter Eyre, who at times uncannily recalls Robert Morley, Brevoort is a preening literary lion with a mordant wit whose sense of morality is as precise and fastidious as his prose.

In The Scarlet Plague, London investigated many traditional issues of the literary topos of plague, ranging from a reflection on morality and justice to the contagion and clinical features of the disease.