Sentence examples for morally vicious from inspiring English sources

The sex in Eliot's poetry is almost always bad sex, either libidinally limp or morally vicious.

Like the morally vicious person, the continent and incontinent persons are internally conflicted, but they are more aware of their inner turmoil than the morally vicious person.

They desire to secure these things even at the expense of other people, and so they act in ways that are morally vicious.

It is harmful to women, because it legitimates the same sexist practices that reinforce the projection, in a morally vicious circle.

It does not, however, hint at the even more radical ethical views which the Stoics defended, e.g. that only the sage is free while all others are slaves, or that all those who are morally vicious are equally so.

But once we look for examples of morally vicious or villainous action that is nevertheless permissible (which is the counterpart of a morally heroic action), we find it difficult to come up with an example.

This is morally reprehensible.

Passio was, after all, the term applied to the "Passion" of Christ, which was a kind of suffering, but hardly a vicious, or even morally neutral, kind.

While admirably vicious toward scary, morally hypocritical Catholic nuns, it's also an apologia of sorts for Log Cabin Republicans.

"All those smug, morally superior vegans are actually vicious kale killers!" Watch Colbert's outrage culminate into a "Eat More Meat" PSA (reminiscent of everyone's favorite Sarah MacLaughlin commercials)for PETOP, or People for the Ethical Treatment Of Produce, in the segment above.

In general, Thomson suggests, a virtue is a trait such that, whatever else is true of those among whom we live, it is better if they have it (Thomson 1997, 282).[28] What we are morally required to do is just what we would be vicious in some way were we to fail to do (Thomson 1996, 150 152, 1997, 286 287).