"My kid grew up in a really moral atmosphere and loving family," Mr. Berkmans, a pastor, said.
To investigate the relationship between perceived motivational climate and moral functioning, moral atmosphere, and legitimizing injurious sports acts among competitive youth football players.
This largely autobiographical novel tells, with ruthless wit, realism, and lack of sentiment, the story of Butler's escape from the suffocating moral atmosphere of his home circle.
I do think people who care about the general moral atmosphere should pause when allegations are made, even about people on their own political team.
"The presence of an assemblage of ladies purifies the moral atmosphere of a baseball gathering," reported the Baseball Chronicle, "repressing as it does, all the out-burst of intemperate language which the excitement of a contest so frequently induces".
These were again well received, though some readers were beginning to show discomfort at the "Victorian" moral atmosphere that Tennyson had introduced into his source material from Sir Thomas Malory.
For several years, I have thought that the Iraq War, in its moral atmosphere, more closely resembles the First World War than it does either the Second World War or Vietnam.
A consuming new book by Nicholas Shakespeare, "Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister," takes an accurate reading of the moral atmosphere, but the historian's poise, on the page, is neither matched nor sought onscreen.
From afar I couldn't have responded as viscerally as I did to the moral atmosphere of 1998, which had much to do with my imagining the story of how Coleman Silk gets done in.
The horror of the woman's death barely ruffles the surface of his calmly narrated machinations, which makes one feel sunk disconcertingly deep in the moral atmosphere in which it occurs.
