Sentence examples for moral pivot from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bacri plays a famous novelist whose cavalier neglect of his slightly overweight daughter (Ms. Berry) is the moral pivot on which the complex plot turns.

Avner is the film's moral pivot and on him hangs a theme that informs all of Spielberg's movies, the importance of home and families.

Playing alongside Viggo Mortensen, as the loving father who persists in instilling in his son a sense of ethics in the face of savagery, he becomes the moral pivot on which the movie turns.

The answer, I think, is that the book was always wonderfully enigmatic, giving us a voice that cannot mock others without first mocking itself, the sound of a psychoanalytic room yet no way to judge or sympathize with what we were hearing--no vantage point, no moral pivot, nothing but an eavesdropping on analysand and analyst, both of whom seemed verging on parody.

Gilda, the decorator, is the play's sexual and moral (or not) pivot, and Lisa Dillon at first appears strangely cast as someone said to possess a "wild gleam".

Moral choices always pivot personal needs against the greater good, but in games like Until Dawn you're implicitly expected to look after the needs of a wider group of people it's a fresh dynamic, and hopefully the start of a trend towards games less structurally based on the ideals of an individualist culture.

Mitnick functioned both as the story's narrative pivot and its moral anchor.

And new consumer segments such as Muslims, for whom brand authenticity and integrity are critical, can act as a moral compass in an industry that pivots on creative and effectiveness.

The answer, the director felt, was "the moral parable involved" in a narrative that pivoted around how much revered head coach Paterno knew about Sandusky's actions and what he did and didn't do as a result: "People were agonizing over what they would have done in this situation, how responsible they would have been".

The investigating magistrates said the case was not a moral crusade, arguing there were concrete indications that Strauss-Kahn was the "central pivot" of sexual encounters that favoured prostitution.

It adds to and pivots from the historical record, and it sharpens the difficult legal, moral and ethical issues in the Miller case.