'moral enormity' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a great or overwhelming moral wrong or evil. Example: His actions revealed a moral enormity that shocked onlookers.
In the heat of passion, the moral enormity of the violent action loses its purchase.
There's a moment of crucial revelation — a potentially conventional moment of dramatic declaration — for which he discovers an extraordinarily simple yet powerfully expressive camera trope that raises the scene above character into the realm of moral enormity.
There's a moment of crucial revelation a potentially conventional moment of dramatic declaration for which he discovers an extraordinarily simple yet powerfully expressive camera trope that raises the scene above character into the realm of moral enormity.
The great merit of "Massacre" is to focus attention on the enormity of the moral outrage perpetrated by a modern state and a supposedly civilised society against its own citizens.
Burnham's argument was that it was a fallacy of moral equivalence to compare the enormity of immoral evil carried out by communism in its attack on democratic institutions with the moral flaws that had taken place during Senator McCarthy's strategy and tactics of seeking to uncover Soviet agents who were guilty of espionage in the U.S. State Department or Government.
Or is it because the film that preceded this moment has deftly, undetectably, exposed a part of me that finds this meeting impossibly poignant: a civilised, domesticated individual who has made every effort to lead a sophisticated moral life, faced with the black and inescapable enormity of his own inalienable savagery?
The shock in the movie is a moral shock: the devastation of cities, the loss of lives, the enormity of the rampaging beasts, the fearsome sense of impotence before an existential threat to humankind.
Enormity means extreme evil and does not mean enormousness.
Instead of saying the Holocaust didn't happen, the modern sophisticated denier accepts the event in all its terrible enormity, only to accuse the Jews of trying to profit from it, either in the form of moral blackmail or downright territorial theft.
By any moral or amoral measure, the harm we humans visit upon most of the animals who come within our sight (and sights) is an enormity.
Strengths: Size, bigness, hugeness, enormity.
