Sentence examples for moral shape from inspiring English sources

He also says Mr Gingrich was in "no moral shape" to press for Bill Clinton's impeachment.

The possibility of dissolution lends a moral shape to history: we want our empires to fall as well as rise, and we expect decadence to be rewarded with destruction.

When it began in 2004, with a cast that included James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Maxine Peake, one of the show's obvious charms was a manic, scattergun energy that refused to conform to any preconfigured narrative or moral shape.

Without excusing looters, he writes that "the unbridled greed of the oligarchs and their indifference to the normal obligations and restraints… engender a sense that society has lost its recognisable moral shape and, with it, its legitimacy".

According to Crossman, who gave his version of the lucheon chitchat in the House of Commons, Ehrenburg had used Ribbentrop's line to the effect that neither Britain nor France was in physical or moral shape to wage war, & had said that the only difference betw.

America would be in much finer moral shape.

They also let two gifted young actors create nerve-pricking studies in moral numbness shaped by an all-consuming sense of futility.

He subscribes to the culinary school of thought that views ingredients as a series of political and moral decisions shaped by environmental principles, cultural statements and ethical choices.

In other words, to believe that moral hazard shaped the crisis by lowering big banks' borrowing costs, you have to believe that big banks made the terrible decisions they did in part because they were able to borrow money at some fraction of 0.29 basis points less than smaller banks, I'm sure that bankers are obsessed with every dime.

In 1693, however, Guyon lost both her position at Saint-Cyr and the favour of Maintenon after some of her students claimed that they had acquired exalted spiritual states and declared a preference for their own moral judgment, shaped by God in prayer, over obedience to conventional rules.

At the same time that moral philosophy shaped his metaphysics.