Sentence examples for moral ballast from inspiring English sources
Unless we can get past these self-serving assertions, religion's moral ballast is hollow at best.
Joseph Loconte is on target when he says "democracy needs the moral ballast of religion".
What troubles me is the use of the statistical record as a kind of moral ballast for what are essentially emotional arguments.
For many Enron employees, the unpretentious, folksy Mr. Lay represented the moral ballast of a company that they felt had spiraled out of control.
But when a harmless bird-watcher and an inoffensive orchid collector are tortured to death, the sheer savagery of the crimes has him flailing for moral ballast.
But the real threat comes from an incorruptible police inspector whose unrelenting pursuit compromises the entire operation — even as this old-school cop supplies the only moral ballast in a grimly amoral tale.
He provided the moral and intellectual ballast in many of its most serious policy fights.
It's as broad, daft and punchy as all of their work, but here a lightly worn moral seriousness brings ballast to the gags and gigglesome wordplay.
But if you read Edith Wharton or Henry James, you know that the grandes dames of New York society weighed a woman's worth on the scale of virtue; they judged Worsham by the lightness of her morals, not the ballast of her splendor.
In the end, that choice gives "Monsoon Wedding" its ballast and moral center.
A naturalist's handbook written in the style of Rabelais, "The Water-Babies" is a coming-of-age story — short on plot but with ample educational ballast, both scientific and moral.
