Sentence examples for moral paralysis from inspiring English sources

They arrived four days ago, but for 48 hours the reviewer was prevented by moral paralysis from opening the parcel.

Performed with naturalistic vibrancy by a fine cast directed by Michael Attenborough, "Enemies" oozes the juicy ruling-class angst, idiosyncrasy and moral paralysis associated with classic Russian fiction.

Among other targets, terrorism attacks thought; the dinner party in "Omnium Gatherum" is a paradigm of intellectual devastation and moral paralysis.

He does not report what he has seen, intellectualising instead of acting and remaining in a state of moral paralysis even when he bumps into the man he recognises as the murderer in a local sushi bar.

But in counterpoint to Herr N.'s moral paralysis in the face of that violence and his sustained infatuation with Winnie — "a goddess," "a vision of glory" — there remains the perilous, principled defiance of his parents and his brother, Heinrich.

What troubled Tynan about the rewrite also bothered Williams, who explained his reservations in an explanatory note to the script: "The moral paralysis of Brick was a root thing in his tragedy, and to show a dramatic progression would obscure the meaning of that tragedy".

France, at risk of moral and political paralysis, is now running a dangerous deficit in both departments.

This is not entirely Mr. De Palma's fault, though I think he may have misdiagnosed the condition of the audience, which is not lack of information about Iraq but rather a pervasive moral and political paralysis.

The court's ruling amounted to a warning that "decisive action is now imperative, otherwise the continuing loss of moral authority, political paralysis and fragmentation of our movement will continue".

The novel opens with the discovery of the tyrant dead on the floor of the presidential palace, "older than all old men and all old animals on land or sea", before exploring moral decay and political paralysis in what the author called a "poem on the solitude of power".

No Professionals, Please "Songs From the Second Floor," currently at the Film Forum in Manhattan, is a shatteringly original work -- a series of comic tableaus, assembled with the utmost attention to color, compositional space and tiny, expressive gestures, which yields a scathingly funny vision of modern Sweden as a land of spiritual paralysis and moral bankruptcy.