Sentence examples for moralistic arguments from inspiring English sources

Through most of that July the British prime minister had been asking his military chiefs to reconsider the question of using poison gas against Germany, telling them he wanted "cold-blooded calculation" rather than moralistic arguments about the unique iniquity of chemical weapons.

Ronald J. Tabak, a lawyer in New York who has argued death penalty cases, said that legislators were coming to understand that they could vote to abolish the death penalty without losing their next election, so long as they avoided moralistic arguments and focused instead on factors like accuracy, fairness and cost.

FAMILY planning and birth control is one of many areas where America has gotten itself wrapped up in a decades-long hysterical moralistic argument over issues whose solutions ought to be obvious to any mature adult.

Note that Dworkin construes-or misconstrues-MacKinnon's argument as a version of the old moralistic argument that objects to pornography on grounds of its offensiveness; and, as we have seen, liberals reject offense as legitimate grounds for preventing the voluntary consumption of pornography in private.

Before you skip over the rest of the article so you can finish up your crib notes, let me explain that this not a moralistic argument.

The effect is to make the issues more black and white and the tone more moralistic, a shift captured in the closing arguments of the prosecutors.

Other people get moralistic.

"But he's not moralistic.

Her father is frustrated, moralistic.

In fact, Machiavelli was a moralistic thinker.

The best analyses are not moralistic.