Sentence examples for moral gesture from inspiring English sources
Yet, while forgiveness is desirable, it isn't necessary as a moral gesture and, sometimes, is not even appropriate.
Last week, the New Hampshire legislature voted final approval to abolish the death penalty -- a moral gesture for the lawmakers, since a gubernatorial veto was promised and no one is on death row there.
Anyone who has hoed a small patch of land, or struggled to cultivate a seed, will know that the act of gardening is a moral gesture – an attempt to bring order and peace to a chaotic and disrupted world.
"This is a very important moral gesture to add to the amount of money to people who suffered grievously," said Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who represented the Clinton administration at Holocaust reparation talks.
These are not displays of sullen adolescent aggression; they're moral gestures, designed to put the kuffar in their rightful place.
This is the crime of small, fictional worlds, rattling tea-cups, genteel suspicions, cherished hatreds, of mists on the lamp-lit heath, grand moral gestures and lightly treading footsteps - always more Midsomer than Moss Side; more Watson or Marsh, say, than Peace or McDermid.
The results, like all his work, will be an attention-grabbing gesture with moral underpinnings.
In Japan, suicide can be a gesture of moral integrity and freedom, or an act of beauty.
It was a gesture of moral reprobation and also a punch that would give any normal man something to think about between rounds.
Casting Bollywood figurehead Tabu as the inspector general on Devgn's case ensures our sympathies are conflicted, to say the least; the concluding gesture towards moral relativism consequently feels far queasier here than it was in Papanasam, which permitted us to hope Haasan would, this once, get away with murder.
We do not suppose that all moral language (not even to gesture towards an obviously enormous difficulty all moral language in English) has always and everywhere had exactly the same presuppositions, social context, or cultural significance.
