There is an irony in finding these moralistic images of a man who lost it all hanging in the home of a man who tripled the size of his home to keep pace with his prized collections.
There was, however, another side to the young prosecutor, a moralistic and carnivorously ambitious man who desired public office.
Involvement as a husband/father was in some cases perceived as an obligation with moralistic undertones: As a man, your wife and children's welfare should be very important to you…Making sure proper treatment is given to your sick wife or newborn shows how responsible you are (Male, 37).
But less obviously sexist objections to Plenty centred on the feeling that the play was moralistic, the work of a man who believed himself superior to other people.
Later in the first decade of the new century, though, an influx of bold young women, allergic to the old pieties about female purity and comfortable working with men, displaced their moralistic, teetotaling elders.
Representation of smoking in the media may also explain the gender patterns in the use of tobacco; smoking has been projected as an expression of masculinity among men and has moralistic connotations for women.
Like many westerns, the movie is moralistic at heart: the character of the men is tested by their sudden good fortune and, to quote from the film's director John Huston, they "stew in their own juice".
One view holds that the church is evidence of the painting's moralistic intent that while the first two blind men stumble and are beyond redemption, the other four are behind the church and thus may be saved.
The film borrows from popular moralistic fantasies like "Wonderful Life" and "The Family Man" and features Kevin Sorbo (television's "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"), Kristy Swanson (the movie "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), John Ratzenberger ("Cheers," "Toy Story 3") and the Disney Channel phenom Debby Ryan ("The Suite Life on Deck").
But given the moralistic nature or our society, Gov. Spitzer a man touted as the First Jewish President To-Be did a most idiotic thing.
