Sentence examples for moral instrument from inspiring English sources

The novel is a moral instrument.

Poetry, which was to many the art of arts, was comparable as a moral instrument; natural vitality coursed through it like sap through a tree.

But the artists who look most magnetic today are the ones who made something personal of various trends that pooled up in the city and sustained a sense of art as moral instrument, a seismic device for transmitting political and spiritual moods.

One can easily imagine Bloom warning today, as Brooks did in "The Well Wrought Urn" in 1947, that if "every poem is an expression of its age," then "the poetry of the past becomes significant merely as cultural anthropology, and the poetry of the present, merely as a political, or religious, or moral instrument," precluded from communicating universal truth.

Pace Shawcross, the answer is likely to involve less military intervention from the outside and greater use of nonviolent political, economic and, especially, moral instruments.

And the reference to Beuys, and his view of art as an instrument for moral education, seemed apt.

It is in the work of Dürrenmatt that the crime story most fulfils its potential as an instrument for moral exploration.

Fiction, for Hughes, was an instrument of moral learning, another vital way of arming small boys in the fight against the Evil One.

Works of literature, then, develop more than anything else the human faculty of the imagination, and the 19th-century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley said that the imagination is the greatest single instrument of moral good.

On Tuesday night, Obama carried on his long-running argument in favor of positive thinking, not as a perfect analytical tool — "there will be times when the process disappoints you," he said — but, instead, as a moral obligation, and an instrument in the work of continual American renewal.

The European Moral Case Deliberation Outcome Instrument (Euro-MCD) was developed in accordance with the following steps.