Sentence examples for moralistic intent from inspiring English sources

Winner declared it "a pleasant romp" with no moralistic intent and went on to direct two more installments.

Where the other newspaper-made writers tended to be, as newspaper columnists still are, moralistic — Lardner, although a master of common speech, is intent on unmasking the cruelty beneath the cheerfulness of American life — Runyon's stuff is strictly amoral, with a tearjerking moment set down here and there like last night's carnation floating by in the gutter.

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.

The letters were also explicitly moralistic.

Mr. von Trier's more moralistic critics ask.

This is no moralistic anti-sex law.

The immediate effect is not moralistic.