Sentence examples for moralistic effort from inspiring English sources

The gallery at 2 Columbus Circle, designed by Edward Durell Stone, was intended as a vehicle for his moralistic effort to reform the visual art of his age.

The film intercuts four stories — the fall of Babylon, in 539 B.C.; the persecution of Jesus; the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, in 1572; and a modern tale that links moralistic efforts at "reform" to a strike, a gangster plot, and a wrongful murder conviction.

Prohibition failed in 1855 and the moralistic pietistic Protestants switched to a new, equally moralistic cause, the anti-slavery crusade led by the new Republican Party.

In essays like "The Hypocrisy of Puritanism" and a speech entitled "The Failure of Christianity", Goldman made more than a few enemies among religious communities by attacking their moralistic attitudes and efforts to control human behavior.

The title of the film shows McQueen's efforts to be earnest and somewhat moralistic, which is sometimes necessary to forge new ground on explicit subjects.

President Bush wants a perpetual hunt for new sources amid conservation efforts that amount to little more than moralistic abjurations.

The more dower, moralistic, and evangelical aspects of religion he saw as confused efforts to make religion a science, a social club, or a political movement.

We attempt to refrain from such complacent moralistic expatiation.

The agricultural education movement in Massachusetts, in reaction to this crisis, had highly moralistic tones.

Other people get moralistic.

"But he's not moralistic.