Sentence examples for rigorous moral from inspiring English sources

But what was new in English fiction was the combination of deep human sympathy and rigorous moral judgment.

That is obviously how any religion that preaches a rigorous moral message will sometimes be perceived, but to anyone who knows Catholic history intimately and has experienced Catholic culture from the inside it is a peculiarly ill-fitting caricature.

The 16th feature by Ms. Corsini, the film is a rigorous moral inquiry that puts its characters — but especially its ambitious young protagonist, Al (Raphaël Personnaz) — through the wringer.

But, even to the last, McKellen is a probing, questioning figure staring quizzically at Kent and asking: "Who are you?" By the end, you feel this is a Lear who has somehow undergone a rigorous moral education.

Since he began directing films in the late 1980's, Mr. Haneke, also a well-regarded German playwright, has shown himself to be a rigorous moral theorist obsessed with the voyeuristic aspect of movies and the dehumanizing effects of television.

Bluestocking is a "pedantic woman" (not to be confused with bluenose, which is found in the superb Merriam-Webster's Ninth Collegiate, to mean "one who advocates a rigorous moral code," and which most of us would call a "prude" or, as the Riverside says, "a puritanical person").

By his account of the sometimes rigorous Christian moral code banning evil thoughts, second marriages, abortion, and the viewing of gladiator contests, while insisting on the duty of civil obedience and emphasizing an orientation toward the next life, Athenagoras refuted the allegation of sexual depravity.

"I really do believe that a very rigorous judgment of moral blame can be lodged against some of these people," Dr. Arras said.

It has created a situation where we are held up to such a more rigorous standard of moral behaviour than men are, that it is we that are somehow to blame when our bodies have been violated without our consent.

And it is a book of a deeper sort -- a rigorous theological and moral dialectic that Carroll, the author of "An American Requiem," never removes from the personal necessity of choice, for good over evil, for memory over denial and for love over power.

For one rigorous effort by a moral cognitivist to offer an account, see Smith (1994).