Sentence examples for moral stagnation from inspiring English sources
Many of the short stories that were later published in El llano en llamas (1953; The Burning Plain) first appeared in the review Pan; they depict the violence of the rural environment and the moral stagnation of its people.
In his autobiography, "My Past and Thoughts," the nineteenth-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen discussed the moral stagnation that followed the crisis of December, 1825, when an optimistic rebellion, led by liberal aristocrats and Army officers in St . Petersburg was easily crushed by Nicholas I, the new tsar.
Mill, who welcomed communism in so far as it meant equality, the abolition of privilege and state ownership of land, foresaw more than half a century before the Russian revolution that the system's intrinsic tyranny ('the absolute dependence of each on all, and surveillance of each by all') could end only in moral stagnation and material collapse.
By James Wood Ben Lerner In his autobiography, "My Past and Thoughts," the nineteenth-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen discussed the moral stagnation that followed the crisis of December, 1825, when an optimistic rebellion, led by liberal aristocrats and Army officers in St . Petersburg was easily crushed by Nicholas I, the new tsar.
The news that scientists have found a workaround and may still be able to capitalize on the promise of stem cell research without getting caught up in the stagnation of moral ambiguity has come as great news to millions of people all over the world.
"To a certain extent," his biographer Ernest Simmons writes, "his anxieties mirrored those of all thinking people of the Eighties, this 'epoch of social stagnation.' " Tsarist Russia in the eighteen-eighties was suffused with moral and economic depravity.
This stagnation is puzzling.
First, intellectual stagnation.
"That would be stagnation.
