I might quibble with some of her emphases, but her judgments are morally and politically sophisticated — in a word, judicious.
If most readers aren't prepared to go quite that far, this dark, strange romantic dance certainly marks the flowering of Richardson's talent for morally and emotionally sophisticated psychological realism.
She was the most economically and socially deprived but also the most morally serious and intellectually sophisticated of all the 17-year-olds whom you featured.
While countries like Israel, England and Germany - no strangers to terrorist tactics -- had long since developed much more sophisticated, and less morally offensive, interrogation techniques, the Bush administration applied outmoded, ineffective and immoral tactics that did not, and could not, achieve results.
He doesn't deny that gossiping is a morally complex endeavor that requires a sophisticated evaluation of individual responsibility, motives, sources and notions of justice.
As Richard J. Arneson says, according to the sophisticated consequentialist, "it can be morally right to form the intention to do what is morally wrong … Sometimes one ought to become a friend, even though this involves disposing oneself to do wrong, because forming this disposition would be acting to produce best consequences" (394).
However sophisticated the story's construction, however morally ambiguous the hero may seem, the battle lines will finally be drawn up for a showdown: good versus evil.
They have been described as morally innocent, yet they display a range of sophisticated emotions, including some that are far from guileless.
The human species, for example, is a morally relevant category because the species is characterized, in part, by morally relevant properties such as sophisticated intellectual and emotional capacities, and not merely by biological criteria (e.g., mating abilities).
