Yet one must beware of judging Berquin or his equally moralistic successor Jean-Nicolas Bouilly by today's standards.
The upshot of "The Joy of Cooking?" is that we've all been fed an overly-romanticized view of home cooking by people like Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman, but this "emerging standard is a tasty illusion, one that is moralistic, and rather elitist".
Given the duality of "Redwood Curtain" -- worldly and moralistic purpose, other worldly aura -- the play is a killer by practical standards.
Publicists and studios exerted rigid control over stars' lives, and tried to control reporting about them, because general social standards of behavior were, at least in the public realm, stringently moralistic and harshly judgmental.
Given the duality of "Redwood Curtain" -- a worldly, moralistic purpose and an other-worldly aura -- the play is a killer by practical standards.
"I think gratitude is great if you can communicate it, but if you have to keep telling people how grateful you are... ..... William Kristol, a Republican strategist and, since September, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, puts it this way: "She strikes me as a sort of moralistic liberal who has a blind spot for actions that are in her own interest.
." William Kristol, a Republican strategist and, since September, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, puts it this way: "She strikes me as a sort of moralistic liberal who has a blind spot for actions that are in her own interest.
But now the campaign against AIDS is faltering amid accusations of moralistic grandstanding and financial mismanagement.In the 1990s, western donor governments lauded Uganda for setting the standard in the continent's fight against AIDS.
Other people get moralistic.
