Sentence examples for moral lie from inspiring English sources

I refuse to comfort myself with the moral lie that these men have done something monstrous, and consequently are monsters, and therefore I am not like them".

Also, your slanders against our race are a moral lie, told to throw all the blame for our troubles on to us.

The film's appeal, along with what you might call its moral, lies in the close fit between Mr. Hillenburg's brightly colored, daftly inventive approach to animation and storytelling and the buoyant, grating good cheer of his hero.

* In James A. Baker III's "Confronting the Matter of Personal Responsibility" (Opinion, July 10), the key to reversing the slide in American morals and morale lies with the individual role model.

Faced with the new Lysenkoism it is worth remembering that the moral issues lie not in genetics, but in the agenda of those who use it; and that liberation lies not in denying science, but in understanding what it is trying to do.

Where did the moral right lie?

Beyond the moral problems lie the practical difficulties.

As the largest movement of displaced persons fleeing war-torn countries since World War II unfolds before our eyes, where do the social and moral responsibilities lie – as people and as corporations?

So, gently and subtly, he showed how to write poetry that does the job that good poetry should do: to describe an ordinary moment in such a way that moral worlds lie exposed.

Of course, the Pope's real interest is in numbers, and apart from the various Pentecostal and evangelical sects, with whom he does not do serious ecumenical business, the big numbers for his Christian moral crusade lie in some sort of reconciliation between the Eastern and the Western Churches.

His strengths as a moral philosopher lie elsewhere.