Sentence examples for moral shift from inspiring English sources

Has change come about through a politically powerful gay lobby, or through a moral shift?

"And if they can return fire automatically, you've made a huge moral shift in warfare.

What made the difference was a moral shift: "People said, 'This is not the way it should be.

It also represents a kind of moral shift for the company, moving away from a simple search to one with an implicitly social and political mission.

She witnessed a moral shift in those years, away from people who were competitive and toward people who were cooperative, away from the ambitious and toward those who were self-nurturing and self-exploring, away from the culture of rectitude and toward the culture of narcissism.

The movie charts no moral shift in Chigurh, or indeed in the men around him; all of them are set in stone from the beginning (Sheriff Bell appears to be made from stone), and we gradually realize that "No Country for Old Men" is not telling a tale — the plot remains open-ended — but reinforcing the legend of a place, like a poem adding to an oral tradition.

Michael Moorcock's novel King of the City (Scribner, 2000) is a functioning barometer of London's seismic moral shifts since the Thatcher years.

He accepted that some people may find his views "optimistic" or "naive", but he said that historical examples like the change in attitudes to slavery 200 years ago showed that society could undergo rapid and profound moral shifts.

The image of a buttoned-up businessman who resembles a Monty Python character standing near a bohemian fellow slouching on the ground against a tree speaks volumes about the social and moral shifts of the 60's.

For some of the people who had read the novel on his recommendation, "certainly those a few years younger than me," he wrote, the "moral shifts Hollinghurst was concerned with no longer had the power to shock.

Some of this was probably to do with the explicit gay sex - which will no doubt make some of the headlines again in reviews of the adaptation - but also it seemed to me that for some people, certainly those a few years younger than me, the tiny moral shifts Hollinghurst was concerned with no longer had the power to shock.