Sentence examples for morally rigorous from inspiring English sources

Cohabitation, or "living in sin" as it was known in a more morally rigorous era, is now the rule.

In "Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate" (M.I.T. Press), Christine Overall tries to subject that decision to morally rigorous analysis.

But, by combining Clare's instinct for the imaginative freedom of confabulation with Sam's morally rigorous documentary approach, he allows himself to examine more deeply the particular dilemmas of white liberals, for whom the anti-apartheid cause was an effort to absolve themselves of an agonizing shame.

Mohandas grew up in a home steeped in Vaishnavism worship of the Hindu god Vishnu with a strong tinge of Jainism, a morally rigorous Indian religion whose chief tenets are nonviolence and the belief that everything in the universe is eternal.

Each section of the "Commedia," which tracks Dante's wide-eyed tour through the three realms of the afterlife -- hell, purgatory and paradise -- provides thoughtful, morally rigorous investigations of sin, guilt and redemption; each section is deeply emotional yet intellectually subtle; and each bears witness to dazzling imaginative and artistic resources.

At the "Serious" Boardinghouse (Gunn's scare quotes), Gunn meets a precocious, morally rigorous 12-year-old who "dabbled in entomology, didn't approve of Shakespeare and objected to story-books, 'as he had heard of persons becoming insane from the pernicious habit of novel-reading.' " A fan of temperance, the boy "had a little dressing-gown, and a special costume for gardening".

Above all, scientists who are atheists need to be morally more rigorous than those who believe animals were created for our use and exploitation.

After Bush administration, she became a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, where she promoted her vision of a more wholesome, morally correct, educationally rigorous America.

An op-ed that she recently wrote for the Los Angeles Times was more elaborate and confused: she now declares that her film is "rigorous" (historically rigorous? logically? morally?) and avows that she is a "lifelong pacifist" who supports "all protests against the use of torture".

In short, can rigorous theology suggest that some biblical injunctions are no longer morally relevant?

Of course there must be rigorous safeguards and, rather uncomfortably, of course there will be errors and transgressions, but that does not mean the morally courageous option is to dismiss the debate on the myopic and selfish assumption that it is unlikely to affect us.