Sentence examples for moral sickness from inspiring English sources

However, in its moral ambiguity, the hesitations of the hero and his confessions of weakness, lies its modernity, responding to the contemporary sense of moral sickness.

She plays Mr. Garlin's wife — in moral sickness and extravagant Hollywood wealth — on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the cinéma-too-vérité series whose sixth and possibly final season begins tonight on HBO.

The palpable dread comes not from the fear of an explosion or the loss of a night's work or the expectation of reprimand that dogs the chemist on duty, but from a kind of moral sickness, a sense that evil has sunk into the very molecular structure of the world.

Hume leaves his readers with the clear view that religion, far from being a source of support for moral practice, is in fact a major source of moral sickness in the world.

In 2011, Houser, who went by "Rusty," apparently commented on a blog post titled "Moral Sickness at Root of America's Decay," according to the International Business Times.

These responses are the product of a moral sickness -- and most pathetic are the ones who call themselves pro-life or who obsess over what they say is the loss of freedom in this country, yet they'd rather see their fellow human Bowe Bergdahl lose his freedom or even die all because of their blind hatred of the man in the Oval Office.

There's just something about 1918; the book's pervasive moral and physical sickness (we get characters who are bedridden, crippled, shell-shocked, insane, mass-murdering) may remind you of other novels from the twenties and thirties — Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain," or Joseph Roth's "The Radetzky March," or Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities".

Some of them are glimpsed at home, looking no happier, the moral being that the sickness of the education system infects every limb of their lives.

The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become "chic".

It is easy, too, to concoct a moral fable out of sickness — "this is a punishment that the patient brought on himself" — but there is sadism in that confabulation.

By 1944, his lab had become the Yale Center for Studies of Alcohol, and the two had started the National Council for Education on Alcoholism, whose mission was to inform Americans of a "momentous" discovery: "that alcoholism is a sickness, not a moral delinquency".