Sentence examples for moral certitude from inspiring English sources

The novel begins in moral certitude and virtuous outrage.

Mr. Fox added: "Olmsted's moral certitude is lifeless, leaving no place for compassionate Christianity".

And the field of hacking, through losing its moral certitude, may have grown up a little.

Imbuing opponents with humanity would rob "our boys" and the audience of moral certitude.

But uneasy introspection has always suited Radiohead better than moral certitude.

More controversially, Dower pairs Hiroshima with Sept. 11, both acts of terror born of moral certitude.

We crave a world of crisp moral certitudes, but the real world is awash with murky ambiguities.

Like the French critics before him, Mr. Conrad sees Hitchcock's movies as belonging to a Nietzschean world in which God is dead or absent (replaced by the director, as presiding chess master) and old moral certitudes have become obsolete.

Now Mark Ravenhill, whose Shopping and Fucking (1996), about  the sexual, economic and chemical exploitation of the young, was a full-frontal assault on moral certitudes and dramatic decorum, has written Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat,  a cycle of 16 short epic plays first presented at breakfast time at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and now unfolding on stages across London.

The Nov. 2 election will see if Mr. Bush's approach to foreign policy -- replete with images of courage and endurance, of moral certitudes and of generational struggle to defeat a new enemy while transforming an entire region -- has proved persuasive to most Americans.

In the decades that followed, the limousine liberal would prove a perfect piñata for absorbing their resentments about racial upheaval, as well as de-industrialization and decline, and their grief over the fading away of the "traditional family" and its supposed moral certitudes.