Sentence examples for moral insistence from inspiring English sources

But adult life, of course, is a series of compromises and negotations, and I find the moral insistence of these songs to be wholly admirable, if unworldly.

"Annulled" is a startling and completely apt choice here: the slight remoteness of the Latinate word helps to avoid the moral insistence that can disarm poetry about war.

Like so many of his contemporaries, he practiced what the political historian Tony Judt calls a system of "double-entry moral bookkeeping": "an insistence upon certain normative values" combined with "the subsequent refusal to recognize their application in selected cases".

And yet, I do not believe that we will have the will, or the staying power, to complete this work without something more and that is the continued expansion of our moral imagination, an insistence that there is something irreducible that we all share.

And yet, I do not believe that we will have the will, or the staying power, to complete this work without something more – and that is the continued expansion of our moral imagination; an insistence that there is something irreducible that we all share.

Moreover, while a theory such as Railton's sophisticated consequentialism can acknowledge that a sophisticated consequentialist agent might sometimes knowingly bring about less than maximally good consequences, such a theory must nonetheless continue to insist that each particular act of doing so is indeed morally wrong — an insistence which seems contrary to our moral intuitions (Jollimore 2001).

For all his insistence on moral clarity, Bush has failed to bang heads and create clear policies.

The Hong Kong government retreated early Saturday evening from its previous insistence that "moral and national education" become mandatory in the territory's schools by 2015.

This attitude and his unfailing insistence on moral autonomy were early and important signs of the individualism that would become a Renaissance hallmark.

"We salute him for his principled moral stand and his insistence on going ahead with this trip despite the silly American criticism," a newspaper, Al Thawra, said.

For all their insistence on moral equivalence, Amis and even Conquest say they nevertheless "feel" the Holocaust was worse than Soviet repression.