The numerous 15th-century followers of Chaucer continued to treat the conventional range of courtly and moralizing topics, but only rarely with the intelligence and stylistic accomplishment of their distinguished predecessors.
An advantage of the encyclopaedists of the first period (i.e., before 1600) was that each of them either knew or could visualize his reading public, a point that encouraged a minimum of commentary and moralizing.
The evidence draws moralizing contrasts between Sallust's behaviour and his censorious writings and suggests a source for the ill-gotten wealth that created the splendid Sallustian Gardens (Horti Sallustiani).
The realist tradition in British cinema continued to bear fruit with Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, a gripping drama about bleak lives on a housing estate, told observantly and tautly, without moralizing judgments.
Bruegel's picturizing of Flemish proverbs, themselves often comments on foibles, and his prints of the Seven Deadly Sins with satirical examples filling the backgrounds combine a bit of moralizing with the delighted empathy of a participant.
Though Coelho's novels continued to succeed both in Brazil and abroad, critics often characterized them as overly didactic and moralizing.
In the treatise on moral virtue Plutarch discusses how virtue must subordinate unreason to reason within the soul, a theme developed in many other of the works dealing with popular ethical problems; those adduce examples from the lives of famous men and contain sound but unoriginal moralizing.
Her novels, with their detailed descriptions, most nearly approach the regional novel as epitomized by Pereda; their melodrama and moralizing also show Espina's independence from novecentismo's influence.
At about the same time, a Jewish poet wrote a didactic poem, ascribing it to the pagan Phocylides, though closely following the Bible in some details; the author disguised his Jewish origin by omitting any attack against idolatry from his moralizing.
He's actually pretty moralizing in his views, but he has an appealing manner that keeps him from seeming like a scold.
Yet their derisive views of moralizing discourse of their rivals, their haughty stance toward fellow intellectuals, and their pronouncedly anti-ministerial rhetoric all gained them immense dislike among the imperial literati.
