Sentence examples for moral substance from inspiring English sources

With this we see "moral substance [Sittlichkeit] turn into reflective morality [Moralität]" and "the reflection of consciousness into itself".

That undeserved slight certainly had more to do with literary style than moral substance.

In terms of drama and moral substance, this was a shrewd move.

It was the spectacle that intrigued American producers, and not the considerable moral substance that lies behind Woo's extravagant plots.

"Shoah" is a masterwork of reflexive filmmaking, in which the conditions of its production are inseparable from its artistic and moral substance.

They satisfy appetites for physical quality and moral substance which have, by and large, been ignored in the exploitative lightweight crapola served up by, shall we say, the Turner prize.

Rather than give our audience what we think it wants, spectacle and shock, let's give it what it needs but is not getting of late -- substance, moral meaning, reasons to hope and believe.

But for 40 years there's been such a vicious attack on any talk about race or any talk about black agenda that is not cast as -- they would want to reduce the black agenda to some narrow parochial, provincial agenda about the interest of black people only -- that has no moral content, no ethical substance, just Machiavellian calculation.

Bad writing is characterised by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance.

The polities he posits as exemplary are not conceived as formal frames of individual life goals, but textured wholes into which human autonomy is woven, this fabric Sittlichkeit, being the moral-cultural substance postulated by German idealism.

The era of market triumphalism has coincided with a time when public discourse has been largely empty of moral and spiritual substance.