Sentence examples for morally decent from inspiring English sources

He asserts that any morally decent, self-respecting person should listen to another's moral story and acquire sensibility to the way in which that person lives in the world as a member of an oppressed group (p. 189).

"You need to also pass their background check, to make sure you are morally decent.

We ought to approach choices in life by asking ourselves what is the morally decent course to adopt.

Its investigator hero is a detective named Xavier March, a forty-two-year-old ex-U-boat sailor, seedily sexy and about as morally decent as one can be in the world he's forced to inhabit.

And, although LaBute is clearly putting in a plea for the average-looking, morally decent guy like Greg, you feel he does this only by making all the other characters appear, at various times, contemptible.

But my sympathy is with the people who do know what they're talking about, who have been brought up on estates and live morally decent, contributing lives and who have seen opportunists destroying all their work".

There are countless artists who seemingly lead decent, morally upstanding lives, who don't beat their wives, slur the Jews, or even cheat on their taxes.

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In the obsession to find anti-semites lurking under every stone, you can no longer differentiate between the important work of supporting Jewish students intimidated on campus by Muslim and far-left groups, resisting the pernicious proposal to boycott Israeli academics - or gratuitously insulting, in the name of Jewry, the brave, decent and morally upright Desmond Tutu.

They do, however, resent the implications that they are morally incapable of living in decent neighborhoods because of the twin "disabilities" of their color and socio-economic status.

All groups have members, including groups that are not decent, fair, or morally praiseworthy; but if membership is sufficient to generate an obligation to obey, then the members of unjust and exploitative groups will have an obligation to obey the rules.