Sentence examples for moralistic terms from inspiring English sources
To speak in moralistic terms about good and evil — terms rarely used in German — is to project American sensibilities.
America's marijuana laws usually expressed that fear of outsiders in moralistic terms, while proving ineffective at stopping pot use.
Privately, many of her ex-colleagues from the first President Bush's National Security Council say that it is rooted in her Christian faith, which leads her to see the world in moralistic terms, much as the President does.
Members of Duvdevan do not recount past missions––those "have to remain dark," Raz said––but they speak in highly moralistic terms about the unit, how they were selected for their sense of probity and poise.
Like most of the midcentury's other noirish tales of this hard-bitten milieu -- The Day of the Locust," "The Deer Park," "His Girl Friday," "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" "What Makes Sammy Run?"- "Sweet Smell" depicted the occupations of people like Winchell in moralistic terms.
The characters and the plot are cast in strong moralistic terms.
In football, pundits talk, in pseudo-moralistic terms, about strikers having "every right to go down" when they sense the merest contact from an opponent in the penalty box.
Others have used the term "moralistic therapeutic deism" to refer to how young people are turning towards a vague belief that God exists and the point of life is to be happy.
One such redoubt was modern poetry: "Not many of my readers suspect that, in addition to my well-known knack of expressing petty irritation in terms of high-sounding, moralistic scorn, I possess also an ability to create poetry of great confusion and charm".
"The story deals with the wider fallacies of a culture based on doctrine, be it science or religion and how terms like 'natural' have gathered moralistic meanings through myth religion and even the debates around science.
The first and second installments of Mr. Caro's biography of Johnson could be gratingly Manichaean and moralistic, portraying him in judgmental and almost unremittingly negative terms as a ruthless, Machiavellian and power-hungry pol.
