Sentence examples for old morality from inspiring English sources
Any understanding of what happened to the original Protestant Ethic and to the old morality and social character it embodied and therefore any understanding of the moral significance of work today is inextricably tied to an analysis of bureaucracy.
Bullying militias are again trying so far without much success to enforce the old morality.
In Britain, we assume that this old morality still holds; that north Europeans are prudent and thrifty.
Yet others think they can defend the old morality and the political dominance of the clergy while, at the same time, opening the economy to the West; they invoke a "Chinese model".
Rather, falling boundaries between private and public, an old morality increasingly muddled by new laws and new technology, and the dominance of a no-holds-barred media, have made moral conundrums that once never happened, or touched the lives of only a few people, the daily fare of millions.
And across much of the world widespread discrimination against baby girls is too readily accepted, whether they are identified in the womb as carrying two X chromosomes and aborted, killed at birth or given less food than boys in infancy.Underlying this book is an old morality tale found famously in the Genesis story of the Fall, which plays not on terror of the dark but on fear of the known.
The reader is trusted to understand this nod to the Puritan-infuriating adulterous heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter – although anyone not in the know could always Google it, which would be appropriate, as This Beautiful Life stylishly dramatises the effect of new technologies on old moralities.
These new art forms and novel methods of perceiving hidden essences were immediately associated with the aesthetic expressions that rejected old moralities and traditional values, developed a greater interest in politics, and represented an ever-increasing creative sensitivity.
It will open this month, a reimagining of a 500-year-old morality play, directed by Rufus Norris (his inaugural play as the National's artistic director).
"There is a lack of old fashioned morality, the morality you and I grew up with," lamented one Republican state representative, Carl Isett.
The writer is an Englishman who is a longtime resident of Verona, Italy, with his wife,… PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer and St. Timothy... Between the time of writer's birth and his baptism, his parents were obliged to vacate the old… MORALITY TALE about the divorce of one of writer's Italian friends in Italy.
