It makes, as Mr. Ellis observes in this illuminating book, for "an epic historical narrative that defies all moralistic categories, a story line rooted in the coexistence of grace and sin, grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness".
Its safe sex campaigns - which long ago crossed the line from polite advice into moralistic hectoring - seem designed to dampen lust.
Other countries' business cultures have more moralistic attitudes towards bankruptcy.
This debate is the latest that falls along the fault lines of familiar but contradictory American heritages, pitting moralistic puritanical ideals against the anti-government values of the frontier.
Ḥāfeẓ's contemporary in Shīrāz was the satirist ʿObeyd-e Zākānī (died 1371), noted for his obscene verses (even the most moralistic and mystical poets sometimes produced surprisingly coarse and licentious lines) and for his short mas̄navī called Mūsh o-gorbeh ("Mouse and Cat"), an amusing political satire.
She also had a successful line in children's fiction of a somewhat moralistic cast.
Others, more in line with the regime's religious ethos, have taken a moralistic approach, raising questions about the dead tiger's sexual proclivities.
Treplev's declaration, "We need new forms," is one of the most famous lines from all of Chekhov, and while it is often understood as a rallying cry against the staid and moralistic 19th-century theater, Chekhov was satirizing the naïve young playwright as much as he was identifying with him.
Other people get moralistic.
10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages.
As easy, moralistic preaching.
