Sentence examples for moral posturing from inspiring English sources

Putting aside the self-interest in Boras's moral posturing — bigger payrolls mean bigger paychecks for his clients, and for him — he has a point: the Mets are not spending like a team playing in the most valuable market in the country.

Some Iraqis buy the moral posturing.

To Disraeli, the Conservative prime minister of the day, Gladstone's moral posturing was intolerable.

Unless we're prepared to do that, accepting 10,000 asylum seekers is moral posturing.

But, Kot writes, "the moral posturing was a laughable new wrinkle.

In their various acts of moral posturing, not once has a congregation of these organisations criticised female foeticide or dowry.

As millions die around the world, leaving millions of orphans -- as whole societies crumble -- our moral posture will be challenged.

More generally, Xenophon's moral posture and his conviction that proper instruction, both practical and moral, could achieve human improvement had an appeal even in a world of secular enlightenment.

In this spiritually-grounded moral posture, all beings on earth make up one household (oikos) which benefits from an economy (oikonomia) that takes ecological and social stewardship (oikonomos) seriously.

Unlike the major playwrights of the period — Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge — he had no axe to grind, no moral posture to strike, no rebarbative wit to peddle, and none of the sensational theatrics that thrilled commercial audiences.

The ranking Democratic member of the Judiciary committee, he said of the justices: "Their credibility is so diminished, and their moral posture is so diminished, it will take years to repair".