Sentence examples for moral beacon from inspiring English sources

Anheuser-Busch is our moral beacon shining in the fog, and it is also the fog".

Mr Kirk is supposed to be supremely trustworthy, a moral beacon in a sea of depravity.

And her husband, Prince Claus, was seen as a moral beacon.

Yet for some people, religion appears to amplify the instinct to feel like a moral beacon.

Half a century later, Furtwangler remains a confusing figure, and Shostakovich seems a moral beacon.

American exceptionalism — the notion of the United States as a transformative moral beacon to the world — made him uneasy.

The Michauds are moral beacons among the rampaging selfishness all around them.

But the most powerful statement came from South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate who is seen as one of the continent's moral beacons.

From Tolstoy to the poet Anna Akhmatova and the dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, the most respected Russian intellectuals have traditionally functioned not just as cultural figures but as national symbols, moral beacons and speakers of truth.

I'm not at all sure that the public looks at us as ethical and moral beacons any longer.

Is the United States, with its homeland security industry and its Guantánamo prison, a moral and legal beacon we should all follow?