Sentence examples for moral fiction from inspiring English sources

Wallace's desire to write "morally passionate, passionately moral fiction," as he put it in a 1996 essay on Dostoyevsky, presented him with a number of problems.

Even so, Martin's novel is the best kind of moral fiction, the kind that interrogates morality itself.

His brand of moral fiction, influenced by John Gardner, could at times seem insufferably righteous.

What was controversial in the 1970s (John Gardner excoriated Doctorow in "On Moral Fiction") has now become somewhat routine.

Silesky overreaches when he argues that Gardner's advocacy of moral fiction turned the critical tide against metafictionists such as John Barth and Robert Coover.

To hold that a writer owes the reader a damned thing (and vice versa)... is to traffic in Hallmark sentiment, to make a plea for moral fiction, for allegory, for vulgarity".

Moral fictions can be culturally entrenched, even when their falsity is exposed.

For critics who recognize the cognitive dissonance, moral fictions appear to be patently false [ 30].

Moral fictions are created from flawed interpretations of facts or false assumptions about a certain medical practice.

Moral fictions are false beliefs upholding entrenched moral positions in the face of a conduct or practice in tension with established moral norms [ 30].

Moral fictions counteract a cognitive dissonance originating from an inconsistency between the facts about that medical practice and the prevailing moral norms.