Sentence examples for moral age from inspiring English sources

These men wear their moral age visibly, as a tree stump is ringed with years, and this in turn tells us something about Bellow's metaphysics.

Or would you hedge your bets and show nominal support for the Taliban – who are perceived to offer a more moral age, with security and an effective justice system – even if you don't subscribe to their views?

The quality of the writing and the acting is so high that an American viewer may ruefully conclude that even our most serious efforts in the movies are aimed at adults who have barely attained the moral age of twelve... View Article David Denby has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998.

The LDS student population at Brigham Young University (BYU) is an ideal system to investigate the questions outlined below because the population is relatively homogenous in religious commitment, moral views, age and life experience.

The observations made here on the very different and often incompatible virtues of good statesmanship and good politics, and of public and private morals, have aged surprisingly well, more like fine Bordeaux than Beaujolais.

But in our new age, moral arguments have a practical urgency.

This joyless world is the backdrop for the moral coming of age of Chuck Baxter Mr. Hayess), an unremarkable young man on the make who discovers an unexpected route up the ladder.

Nothing, of course, turns out as it should or as we quite expect, and there is a sudden, spectacularly handled outburst of violence worthy of Sam Peckinpah, whose first important movie, Ride the High Country, dealt with similar themes of coming of age, moral growth, ethical tutelage and a climactic confrontation between men of honour and representatives of brute force.

In an age of moral freedom, moral authority has to justify its claims to special insight.

(The film is The Lash. It was made for a few thousand quid in 1934, and it preaches the morality of an earlier age: that moral recuperation is only a thrashing away).

But the answer really depends on which movie you think you've been watching: the one about love or the one about power; the cynical farce or the secretly sincere examination of manners and morals in the age of globalization; the cat-and-mouse or the dog-eat-dog.