Sentence examples for rigid morality from inspiring English sources

His oratorical and legal skills and his rigid morality attracted the notice of the patrician Lucius Valerius Flaccus, who helped him begin a political career at Rome.

But we do know that they tend to come from better rather than worse educated families, that their parents are rarely impoverished but have a high incidence either of divorce or of rigid morality.

This melancholy was partly caused by a contrast between his hedonistic ideals as displayed in his pastoral drama Aminta and his religious aspirations in accordance with the rigid morality of the Counter-Reformation, the Roman Catholic church's movement of revival in answer to Protestantism.

A backlash against heroic thinking, absolutism favored the clarity and discipline of rigid morality.

Looking at his life (and the pimping it seemed to mainly consist of), I realised that the idea that you can apply a rigid moral code to every situation in life is a limiting one, and that morality depends as much on circumstance as what your parents tell you is right and wrong.

Looking at his life (and the pimping it seemed to mainly consist of), I realized that the idea that you can apply a rigid moral code to every situation in life is a limiting one, and that morality depends as much on circumstance as what your parents tell you is right and wrong.

The emphasis of this ideology has been a rigid public morality focused on personal appearance and cleanliness, political loyalty, and family planning.

Although a Yorkshireman to his fingertips, he was in full flight from everything that he found oppressive about England: the class distinctions, the rigid sexual morality, the weather.

Sleepy Teddy riding into Sweetwater on the train – the noble outsider with a rigid sense of morality – ends up being a robot programmed to serve that very purpose.

According to popular tradition (which I am not defending), northerners are more likely to be thrifty, dour, cold, honest, hard-working, plain-speaking, blunt, rigid in their morality and a bit unfriendly to outsiders.

People who want to use drugs will do so whether legal or not; our attempts to enforce one rigid view of morality has not worked any better than prohibition.