Sentence examples for moral fascination from inspiring English sources
But finally letting Dix get to me pays off in aesthetic and moral fascination.
In the case of Melissa McCarthy, her fitness to be seen hinges on our pseudo-scientific and moral fascination with health and thinness.
And was there not a possible moral danger in fascination — the habit of returning to the Jewish catastrophe over and over for an emotional workout without receiving further illumination from it?
But in the body of his work – his Essays and the Travel Journal of his trip to Italy – his writing displays an obsessive concern with the power of personal presence in moral life, and a fascination with how people act on, influence and affect each other through their physical being.
Simultaneously lecherous and revolted by the flesh, misanthropic and status-obsessed, contemptuous of Miami's glitterati while desperate to join them, he gives the book's fundamental moral incoherence – its prurient fascination with everything it purports to despise – a plausibly human face.
Sporting a countercultural disregard of taboos (particularly with regard to morals and sexuality), a fascination with mind-altering drugs and Eastern religions, and an interest in experimental literary styles, the movement pushed the boundaries of traditional science fiction until the genre was almost unrecognizable.
But both the literary and the popular cultures have a curious fascination with the moral lessons that emanate from trials.
Clearly less Christian than Marxist (Saramago was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party) and more tragic than Marxist, this wry generosity seems partly based on a born storyteller's fascination with the moral aspects of his craft.
His fabrications hold a particular fascination because of the moral authority asserted by his novels, and by his actions.
Patricia's mother is cowed, moralistic, occasionally vengeful; her brother Desmond is a fervent adherent to the evangelistic religion of Moral Rearmament who holds a powerful fascination for Gordon.
On the right, too, there is a new fascination with the philosophical and moral basis of money.
