Sentence examples for moral genius from inspiring English sources
Holden is meant, it's true, to be a kind of intuitive moral genius.
Ford's Lincoln — who understood law mainly as a matter of "right and wrong" — faces down the posse at the jailhouse door with a blend of bravado and rhetoric, then displays his moral genius in the courtroom, where the defendants are threatened with a legal hanging.
While he praised Solzhenitsyn for having "something of Dante's capacity to make the gross material fact a carrier of spiritual darkness," he also found fault with the chronicler of the Soviet penal system: Moral genius cannot be separated from intelligence, from the power to inform judgment through a constant, life-giving sense of discrimination.
Whereas Newton was a genius of natural science and Mozart of music, Jesus was a moral genius.
It's a kind of moral genius that enables them to imagine suffering vividly in a way that most of us don't unless it's right in front of us.
Some people would be born moral geniuses and others moral dolts.
A post at Philosopher's Beard makes the case for Jane Austen as a moral philosopher of genius.
He's as entertaining as ever, and as much a confounding brew of political genius and moral vulgarity, animal intelligence and intellectual imbecility as he ever was.
Overall, the Spanish Lives, according to Vargo, "tells a story of the survival of genius and moral independence in spite of oppression by public institutions, both individually and nationally".
With a meaningful success, the president who has made his most vociferous opponents look like political geniuses and moral giants could diminish their newfound stature.
