Sentence examples for moral plea from inspiring English sources

The slightness of works such as "The Unbelievable Truth," "Trust," and "Simple Men" was less a style choice than a moral plea for the plain and unadorned; those titles were a giveaway, and even Hartley's preferred actors, some of them returning from film to film, seemed to err, or bend, toward a slender frailty.

We need to make a moral plea, as Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit reminded us at the opening of the Interfaith Summit.

This week Pope Francis will be making an historic speech to a joint session of Congress and he's expected to make a moral plea to Congress to support an international climate agreement.

From 1961 to 1963, Martin Luther King's moral pleas on civil rights were met with President John F. Kennedy's "but" of amoral political pragmatism as to why he couldn't go as far as King wanted.

To hold that a writer owes the reader a damned thing (and vice versa)... is to traffic in Hallmark sentiment, to make a plea for moral fiction, for allegory, for vulgarity".

(What happens if an intruder breaks in and threatens the robot's owner?) In its best moments, "Chappie" can be seen an impassioned plea for moral education, not just for humans but for our future silicon-based companions.

While the director's recent films end on a cynical, if not nihilistic, note, this film has a cheery resolution, and indeed, for the first time, seems to make a plea for "moral" meaning.

Lawmakers inside made personal pleas and moral arguments during the sit-in.

The plea for beauty and moral complexity may sound merely plaintive.

A gorgeously crafted piece of poetry, a story of adventure, a moral examination of violence and a plea for mercy, Virgil's masterful Roman founding myth provokes and haunts long after you've finished.

In reminding us that the art of catastrophe is often a device for banishing the memory of human misery, Sebald's short book is a plea to restore the moral dimension of ruins.