Sentence examples for moral attention from inspiring English sources

Like Nick Carraway, Scalia "wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever".

Of the three of us, only Wanda had turned her moral attention to issues beyond race, which seemed to be one of the only things that preoccupied Southern liberals in those years.

Gregarious writers tend not to want to make the world stand at moral attention, and Lewis's work was always rescued from high-mindedness by his preference for communicating his enjoyment.

Religious and indigenous leaders from all corners of the globe launched today an unprecedented initiative they say will bring needed moral attention and spiritual commitment to bear on global efforts to end deforestation and protect the tropical rainforests forests that are fundamental to human life, the planet's health and reducing the emissions fueling climate change.

It keeps the moral attention focused on human persons, which is we might agree right where it ought to be.

Fost (1994) argues that a brain-dead pregnant woman ought not be counted as a person with interests relevant to the moral calculation, and he urges moving moral attention away from the 'interests' of the fetus as well.

Even though these people cannot reciprocate our moral attentions, we nevertheless include them in the circle of our moral consideration.

In cases of low moral outrage, attention is directed to the victim.

Confidential Foreign Office papers were released, including a 1956 report which had called for Chaplin not to be honoured due to his "communist" sympathies and questionable "morals" - drawing attention to his two marriages to 16-year-old girls.

STRESSES MORAL QUALITY Less Attention Is Paid to Raising Leaders of Men Than of Kittens, He Declares.

It's a peculiar moment of cinematic accusation that thrusts upon the viewer the moral onus of attention and inattention, of a gaze imbued with prejudices stoked both by sentiment and patriotic identification.