Sentence examples for moral distance from inspiring English sources

There was Andy Warhol, with his omnivorous eye and moral distance.

Hugely controversial for what was viewed as a celebration of thuggery, what stands out now are gauche attempts at moral distance: a TV news report and a faux documentary coda explore what makes the football hooligan tick.

It seems apparent at this point that the term "alt-right" is designed to produce just enough moral distance to allow people to forget that in 2016 fascism has become a viable element of our national politics.

Much like their French namesake, the guillotines introduce a mechanical aspect to killing, opening up a physical and moral distance between executioners and executed that ensuing technologies of death will widen.

Hence the introduction of the gas chamber, which enabled the killers to operate at a physical and moral "distance" from the victims without the unpleasant side effect of having to look at them and the blood-splattered results.

The longer "Spring Breakers" goes on, the more its creator comes to resemble its characters in his swooning surrender to temptation, and by the time Alien noodles around on a grand piano, in a peachy twilight, on the waterfront, and croons Britney Spears's "Everytime," while Cotty, Brit, and Candy writhe along, cradling assault weapons and a shotgun, Korine has mislaid any claim to moral distance.

This means a huge cast of characters, many perspectives and constant cross-cutting by the author, sometimes across great geographical and moral distances.

Democratic moral education may have an important role in adequately responding to signs of moral distancing.

We also formulated the presumption that democratic ideals and moral education can prevent radicalization, by adequately responding to signs of moral distancing and stimulating adherence to moral rules and respect for the liberal moral rights of others.

Perhaps, as with African-American blues music, appropriating the traditional American Indian dwelling required the historical, moral and geographical distance afforded the British.

But on the whole, at least recently, German business has wanted to advertise its open and honest approach to its involvement in the crimes of nazism, in order to demonstrate its moral disapproval and distance itself from it.