Sentence examples for moral thrust from inspiring English sources

"There is a moral thrust of the story," said Ruffalo.

In response, Ford offered its own, more succinct, moral thrust.

None of this myth-making is irrelevant, but there is a moral thrust to it that a viewer doesn't feel in the paintings themselves.

Here, he switches in an instant from seductive friendliness to blood-freezing menace, determining the movie's tone and focusing its moral thrust.

Nothing I know about Mr. Morrisroe personally makes him sound lovable; his art has none of the moral thrust that fueled the work of a contemporary like David Wojnarowicz.

It may, like "The Great Train Robbery," owe something to 3-D, but the posthumous application of 3-D would not sharpen — and might even vulgarize — its moral thrust.

The destruction of the gondola and its occupants initiated the first high-profile case of his legal career: prelude to and, in an odd way, preparation for the moral crisis whose resolution thrust him into the limelight and earned him the reluctant celebrity he has only recently learned to embrace.

Klaus, who like the vast majority of his compatriots had not been prominent in the opposition until just before the end, was more than a little jealous of Havel's international standing, and both personally and ideologically resentful of the thrust of his "moral politics".

Coming from an affluent place, it doesn't take many street beggars to thrust you into a moral crisis trying to rationalise wealth.

We don't get any significant account of Suu Kyi's political development and inner life over the years after the moral leadership of her country was thrust upon her in 1988.

That being so, why do major funders continue to bankroll contractors, willingly thrusting themselves under the moral microscope?