Sentence examples for moral distances from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We could describe the city of Santos making an analogy to Harvey (2003) in "Paris, capital of modernity", where he describes the physical distances between different classes as a reflection of material conquest and moral distance: "there is a mode of being which reveals what you are, what you do, where you come from, and what you are after".

Unlike the perspectival and private realm of sense perception, illumination holds out the prospect of fulfilling the yearning to which Augustine's eudaimonism gives such prominence, the yearning to find a realm wherein we can overcome the vulnerability that besets us and the moral distance that divides us from one another.

Religion may be imperfect, but it has, Wright emphasizes, taken us a considerable moral distance.

There's a high moral distance and overlay that gets slapped on this thing.