Sentence examples for moral inheritance from inspiring English sources

Roscoe's Italian primitives, now in the Walker Art Gallery, convinced me the Italian Renaissance was a part of Liverpool's moral inheritance.

Providentially, they have today the privilege and the duty of guarding our religious and moral inheritance, and our legacy of order and justice and freedom.

By 1980, when Auchincloss published "The House of the Prophet," a novel based on the life of Walter Lippmann, he had moved to the political center and was ready to condemn his moral inheritance more completely than he had in "Rector," a quarter century before.

"We must never lose faith in the values that unite us to this day, the enduring moral inheritance that gives our nations their special strength and character.

The genealogy she is tracing reveals our own failures to accept the burden of our country's moral and cultural inheritance.

We share a certain moral and cultural inheritance, and our spiritual assignment is to puzzle over it.

Dedham's Boston-grandee daughter (Elizabeth Allen) arrives with a nefarious plot to do him out of an inheritance on moral grounds, but her bluenose prejudices (not least, involving her father's mixed-race children) are put to the test when she falls for the hard-living Donovan.

A major strand in this book is of the fings-ain't-what-they-used-to-be variety: Liddle is teary-eyed at the thought of the parsimonious, stoical and patriotic lives his lower-middle-class parents led; he feels that we (and he includes himself) have squandered our inheritance, both moral and financial.

His moral force flowed from his inheritance: "He owned the American Revolution," Brookhiser says; "it was his family legacy".

Even though millennials' attitudes about war are handed-down, there still exists a moral imperative to reject the inheritance.

I sympathize with your disappointment but do not agree that the widow has a moral obligation to renounce her inheritance.