Sentence examples for moral niceties from inspiring English sources
Africa is a place where expedience trumps moral niceties, and where benevolence reliably boomerangs with the most woeful of consequences: nothing is so dangerous as a righteous man.The plot involves a Christian aid organisation that buys and liberates black slaves captured by northern Sudanese Arabs during rapacious raids on southern villages.
"The moral niceties of whether they're using my song or not are totally irrelevant," says Gray. "We are thinking below the level of the people we're supposed to oppose, and it goes against our entire history and everything we claim to represent.
Bringing on young people from all kinds of backgrounds is less a moral nicety than a business imperative.
Betrayal and cruelty may be themes of the films mentioned, but so is solidarity, which resonates all the more powerfully because it seems less like a moral nicety than a necessary tactic for survival.
McEwan investigates the legal niceties and moral complexities of individual responsibility with precision-tooled prose – but has missed out on a Booker listing this year.
But "In Certain Circles" also extends and deepens several of her persistent concerns: how easily we submit to cruelty and coercion; the relations between men and women in a frankly misogynist era; the moral imperative to tell the truth, to shatter the china niceties that sustain bourgeois domestic life.
There are other interpretive niceties.
Totalitarianism stands above such niceties.
Social niceties were swept away.
