Sentence examples for moralistic codes from inspiring English sources

On issues of who and when, the French seem to be a lot less invested in moralistic codes than Americans.

In the best films of the thirties, you can feel the cosmopolitan instincts of filmmakers (many European, many gay) duking it out with the fuddy-duddy moralistic strictures of the Production Code.

Perhaps such moralistic endings were forced on filmmakers by the rules of the Production Code then in effect.

Other people get moralistic.

In fact, Machiavelli was a moralistic thinker.

"But he's not moralistic.

Her father is frustrated, moralistic.

The best analyses are not moralistic.

The letters were also explicitly moralistic.

Mr. von Trier's more moralistic critics ask.

This is no moralistic anti-sex law.