Sentence examples for moralistic aim from inspiring English sources

Thus Bodmer and Breitinger thought that the moralistic aim of poetry that they accepted in common with Gottsched could be better achieved by a freer use of the imagination in poetry than Gottsched was prepared to allow.

The ugly group-wallow must be the dramatist's moralistic aim, but the result is closer to ineffective vulgarity.

These works interweave social criticism and their author's moralistic aims with imaginative plots and premises.

A simple-minded moralistic streak often leads them toward sanctions that would hurt precisely the people they aim to help, in Sudan, Myanmar, North Korea and China.

"It's highly moralistic, rather sentimental, and it's animating an inanimate object.

10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages.

Other people get moralistic.

As easy, moralistic preaching.

"Moralistic," said the DC.

Oh, your moralistic hangup again.

"But he's not moralistic.