Sentence examples for moral bent from inspiring English sources

In the past, porn regulation has had a moral bent, but Measure B was presented as a public-health measure to prevent the spread of HIV.

OVER THE TIME I spent listening to the inhabitants of Henrietta Street, its story came to sound not like one of simple regeneration, but like a much stranger fable, with a moral bent.

Strategists believe Mr. Gore has had difficulty in West Virginia because his environmental positions have alienated some who depend on mining for their livelihood, because hunters are nervous about his stands on gun control and because the Clinton administration's scandals have run afoul of the state's moral bent.

That giggle you just felt inside is the attempt of the FCC to ascribe a normative positive moral bent to profit-seeking entities that have a direct financial motive to behave badly in this case.

The difference he notes between this "portrait of a narcissist" and his earlier ones, such as American Psycho and Lunar Park, come in the form of its more moral bent: "This time", Ellis comments, "the narcissist reaches a dead end".

Having entered prison as an atheist with a moral-relativist bent, Genis next took up the problem of good and evil, scouring Pascal, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, "Crime and Punishment," and Knut Hamsun's "Hunger".

Durkheim's religious faith had vanished by then, and his thought had become altogether secular but with a strong bent toward moral reform.

In its way, the Dutch drama Brussels is trying to corner the same pan-European audience, who are interested in multilingual dramas and flawed characters grappling with moral dilemmas – rather than bent bananas.

This distinction goes back to Aristotle, who in the Rhetoric distinguished between ethos (natural bent, disposition, or moral character) and pathos (emotion) displayed in a given situation.

When the very notion of children's literature came into being, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a bent for Christian moral instruction combined with horribly high infant- and child-mortality rates to produce works steeped in blunt fatalism.

She's given to quoting Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous line about the long, justice-bent arc of the moral universe.