Sentence examples for moralistic rationale from inspiring English sources
Step two provides the moralistic rationale for unleashing the hatred.
To direct the torrent of envious rage to an opponent, all the political demagogue must do is create an image that evokes envy--someone more attractive, more intelligent, more articulate, more popular--and then provide a triggering moralistic rationale to "justify" unleashing the envy-based rage against the target.
According to Kennan, when American policymakers suddenly confronted the Cold War, they had inherited little more than rationale and rhetoric "utopian in expectations, legalistic in concept, moralistic in [the] demand it seemed to place on others, and self-righteous in the degree of high-mindedness and rectitude ... to ourselves".
Other people get moralistic.
In fact, Machiavelli was a moralistic thinker.
"But he's not moralistic.
Her father is frustrated, moralistic.
The best analyses are not moralistic.
The letters were also explicitly moralistic.
