Sentence examples for moral attentiveness from inspiring English sources

How we, as voters, have reacted to the Vietnam records or non-records of men as various as Al Gore, Dan Quayle, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Bill Clinton has said as much about the condition of our own moral attentiveness as about theirs.

The notion of guiding a juvenile mind away from a constant diet of "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" might seem heretical to some at Disney, but surely shaping the tastes of the young is a fundamental part of taking care of them, a more benign aspect of the moral attentiveness that makes us inoculate them against disease and teach them not to steal.

DesAutels argues that moral attentiveness requires "nonpassive vigilance of thought where we attempt to counter known psychological tendencies and subtle social influences that prevent us from seeing and responding to the demands of care" (p. 72).

So much of the political campaign is conducted without attentiveness to any moral coherence, even though there is a great deal of cheap religious talk.

His twice-weekly essays for The Rambler (1750 52), for instance, consistently show his powers at their fullest stretch, handling an impressive array of literary and moral topics with a scrupulous intellectual gravity and attentiveness.

Essentially, this is about getting us to pay more attention to the natural world – an attentiveness which, in the face of human depredations and climate change, has taken on a particular moral urgency.

The moral gravity of Durham's narrative is offset by his attentiveness to the primacy of nature in the Western landscape: They were in a country open to sky, moving vulnerably beneath it, closer to God and more insignificant for it.

He noted that surgical "subordinates" (including residents) signal their moral worth to their superiors "in a variety of manners: by their degree of attentiveness as they hold retractors, by their affect as they discuss clinical problems, by their rapport with patients, and by their resourcefulness in getting things done.

There are many cases in which realizing one's basic moral duties in no more than a minimally sufficient way may in practice require sustained attentiveness over a long period of time, as well as intensive effort and substantial sacrifice of self-centred activity.

They dramatize sheer attentiveness.

Silent attentiveness was expected.