The society and class into which Alberti was born endowed him with the intellectual and moral tendencies he was to articulate and develop over a lifetime.
Even now, forty years after his death, the slight figure of Walt himself is almost impossible to pick out from the parti-colored throng of movie clips, projects, and moral tendencies that march under the banner of "Walt Disney".
Simple moral tendencies seem innate in humans and other primates, at least early in life.
Jacobs was hoping to interest Stine in his plan to produce a late-night comedy show, which, he explained, would be "similar to 'Saturday Night Live,' only without all the ah-moral tendencies".
Merely channelling brighter recruits into a closed power structure would increase its sense of moral superiority and tendency to autocracy.
His answer will be familiar to economists: moral hazard — the tendency for people who are protected from the consequences of their actions to take more risks.
The reason, familiar to every economist, is moral hazard: the tendency for people to take more risks when they have some protection from the consequences if things do not go as planned.
March 10 , 1873Fürth, Germany January 1, 1934 Altaussee, Austria Jakob Wassermann, (born March 10 , 1873 Fürth, Bavaria [Germany] died Jan . 1 , 1934Altaussee, Austria) German novelist known for his moral fervour and tendency toward sensationalism; his popularity was greatest in the 1920s and '30s.
But the eco-shoppers were also more likely to buy sweets, ice cream and crisps.In this section The crash of a titan Polls apart Slowing charge In the stocks Leaks on tap The day of reckoning Eco-waverers Poverty's long farewell ReprintsPsychologists call this sort of behaviour "moral licensing": the tendency to indulge yourself for doing something virtuous.
The education reporter Dana Goldstein, in her book "The Teacher Wars," published in 2014, looks at American history and describes a recurring situation of what she calls "moral panic" — the tendency, when there's an economic or social crisis, to lay blame on public-school teachers.
