Finally, "moralistic" values focus on right and wrong conduct toward animals and nature, and "negativistic" values are at work when people hate denizens of the natural world such as snakes and spiders.
Here, the feminist drama is moralistic, the focus is on the individual pursuit of happiness, and the villain is always another person -- the free radical, the unfair competitor in the love game: single by choice and not looking always for "the One" and, as such, a veritable threat to the moral order.
Mitchell said that Gauke was "unnecessarily moralistic" and focusing on "petty stuff" rather than massive tax avoidance.
Rather than offering moralistic lessons, he focused on the humor inherent in the misguided decisions that children often make.
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.
During the 2000 election campaign, George W. Bush vowed to put an end to these moralistic enterprises and to focus instead on great-power relations.
The focus should be shifted from moralistic "living skills" for teenagers to lessons that will be applicable for the rest of our lives.
The repertoires emerging from this article also point to the relevance of critically questioning the consequences of moralistic attitudes that stigmatize girls' sexual activity and focus on the prevention of girls having sexual intercourse, instead of the prevention of unprotected, coerced, uninformed, and unpleasant sexual activity.
There was a risk that the domestic pressure on the taoiseach to be seen to "stand up" to Trump, or to make a series of moralistic political points when meeting him, would taint the meeting and distract from his focus on the vital bilateral relationship between the US and Ireland.
We must keep a focus on the human rights of those who trade sex, not engage in moralistic crusades to eradicate prostitution.
