Sentence examples for moral corrective from inspiring English sources

Baker deploys them to good effect not only for their intrinsic interest but as a moral corrective.

Perhaps serving as a moral corrective of sorts, it was often followed by some Bible studies: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down/Ye-ah we wept, when we remembered Zion".

In the 60s Le Carré was marketed as the bleak moral corrective to the laser-beam and super-villain aesthetic of the Connery-era Bond films, as, in a more class-conscious way, was Deighton/Palmer.

Other characteristics of American life alienated the Romantics: the distaste for tragedy (a moral corrective to illusions of invincibility); the strong preference for practicality; the severance from history; and, above all, what the Germans called bodenlosigkeit, a willed rootlessness, embodied in the flimsy frame construction of American houses.

This was despite all the programs and moral outrage and corrective action aimed at this economic stratum.

This moral aspect – the divinely corrective Germano-thrashing – just does not stand up to reasoning.

It's a charge that is in direct contradiction to the position of Catholicism and the Christian right: that left to its own devices secular society can't be moral and, as a corrective, scripture (such as the Ten Commandments) must be invoked to ensure the moral stability and continuance of society.

Feminists object that this philosophical consolidation of the preeminence of the masculine over the feminine rests on untenable assumptions about the transparency of the self, the immunity of the self to social influences, and the reliability of reason as a corrective to distorted moral judgment.

It is unclear how his moral theory might supply such a corrective.

Disgusted and forbearing by turns, Neufeld, the chair of the Space History Division at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, offers this patient new biography as a corrective to the scientific and moral shakiness of the more admiring writers who have come before him.

Interventions that aim to reduce stigma are likely to be affected adversely by the fact that substance use problems are often perceived as a moral deficit for which a person has corrective control.