Sentence examples for moral memory from inspiring English sources

"If I ask you to tell me about bad moral memory, you're going to give me something from much further in the past".

"The main finding is that if I ask you to tell me about a positive moral memory, you'll tell me something recent," Dr. Escobedo said.

Is our moral memory so fickle that we must wait till Kainat is tethering between consciousnesses, hooked up to a ventilator in some wretched Pakistani hospital before we act to protect her?

The civil rights era lives in America's moral memory largely through oratory, song and news footage.

The researchers transcribed the recorded tales and created a database of 758 "moral memories" by singling out those that had clear moral content, whether positive or negative.

Re "Why All Indiscretions Appear Youthful" (Mind, Oct. 5): In finding that we tend to date our moral failings about 10 years earlier than our good deeds, social scientists conclude that people shape their moral memories to show that their character is improving.

This kind of role playing creates "moral muscle memory" that makes us better at reaching ethical decisions, Gentile suggests.

Elegiac fiction about the moral treachery of memory.

With expectations as high as they have been in recent memory, moral victories will not count for much.

Europeans, however, worry history, and no writer in Europe today has dealt more eloquently with the obligations and moral conundrums of memory, private and collective, than the Hungarian novelist and essayist Peter Nadas.

Before Sebald's death in a car accident last December, the editors of the Book Review named this elegiac novel, a dreamlike meditation on the moral treachery of memory, one of the best books of 2001, and last spring it won a National Book Critics Circle award.