In the same way, you can think of the moral mind as being like a tongue that is sensitive to a variety of moral flavours.
This was not about a "school of poets: the book showed no uniformity or style, and had no manifesto beyond a dedication to "the text itself", a preference for communicability, and a flavour of moral concern.
But its dingy moral atmosphere, its paranoid flavour, its mixture of the serious and the ludicrous, its predication on impenetrably obscure motives, and the deep mystery surrounding its protagonist, all give it a striking resemblance to his gripping, fitfully brilliant new book.
Leadership is something of a buzzword these days, a concept which has seeped into academia from the corporate world and seems to come in an unending array of flavours: academic, research, thought, moral, business, strategic, and so on.
The drug policy of the future will accordingly be flavoured by opposing interests between moral, fundamentalists' attitudes to drug use and attitudes concerning the right of the individual to enjoy drugs at «anytime and anywhere».
So in clamping down on its overuse, which was in danger of turning the word into a meaningless expletive, nothing more than a verbal tic, the recent wave of moral indignation may unwittingly have helped us preserve its unique flavour and power, not least its power to shock.
The relevance of "threshold deontology" is explored, and it is suggested that much of the point of invoking dirty hands comes from an ambiguous attitude to absolute moral prohibitions, combining a rejection of them with a certain wistful attachment to their flavour.
Nearly all these diverse components are strongly nationalist in flavour, and share an instinctive repulsion against the Islamists' claims to spiritual guidance and moral superiority.Yet the diversity of civic Egypt has tended to make it weak.
Vettel brought a visceral flavour to proceedings but to pull it off he was required to blow his morals out of the diffuser and attack an unsuspecting team-mate.
