Sentence examples for moral proclivities from inspiring English sources

Iconic status outlasts the turgid plotlines and moral proclivities of mainstream cinema.

The sequence was brave, but also clumsily handled, exploitative and incongruous; however, it did place the player in a position where many felt they genuinely had to weigh up their moral proclivities with the demands of the gameplay mission.

We are all hurt by kids failing, whatever our moral proclivities; pure self-interest - if that is the driver -- dictates that we should care about America's youth.

Others felt he was a Communist subversive, of dubious moral proclivities, or worse un-Australian". Yet despite the auspicious start, the AFL has in recent decades lost its vital force, as worse un-Australianblicly burn footballs.

I would force every user to give up their Facebook and gmail password then have a heartless machine analyze you for moral character and sexual proclivities.

The Americanized gospel of the politicized evangelical churches tends to see success and affluence as evidence of God's favor, while poverty and joblessness are suspicious signs of weak moral discipline and a proclivity to leech off the hard work of the virtuous.

And, arguably, our inherited proclivity for assigning moral responsibility to others is an atavistic survival that we can do without.

I had an unsatisfying run in with him in 1999, but I'd overlooked that and his various annoying proclivities, especially his seeming incessant avoidance of the moral sins that created the U.S. -- because he told the "Prophet" story.

On the contrary, he sees his effort to dispel false beliefs and to curb proclivities to self-deception as his main contribution to moral philosophy, for there is no greater merit than "to free mankind from false opinions" (De utilitate, OO, II, 26a).

The report found that these discretionary encounters are initiated by police officers who are making "on-the-spot assessments of young people's proclivity for delinquency, prospects for rehabilitation, and overall moral character… with limited information, often falling back on racial and ethnic stereotypes".

The question of whether ethical behavior is biologically determined may refer either to the capacity for ethics (ie, the proclivity to judge human actions as either right or wrong), or to the moral norms accepted by human beings for guiding their actions.