Sentence examples for shallow moral from inspiring English sources

It's a simple, shallow moral, appropriate to this raw moment in American history.

Luther insisted that Erasmus's position reduced the great soteriological drama of the Incarnation and the cross to shallow moral concepts.

In "Gumrah" he challenged an Indian society steeped, in his view, in shallow moral values bordering on hypocrisy, with a tale of marital infidelity in which a woman resumes an affair with a lover after her marriage.

The heated reactions to such willfully repellent fiction can be easily caricatured as a shallow moral contest, with the decency brigade squaring off against the noble forces of art.

In "Get Shorty," based on a crackerjack Elmore Leonard novel of 1990, the suave, black-suited loan shark Chili Palmer John Travoltaa) uses his skills at intimidation to negotiate the moral shallows of Hollywood.

"Their nature is boorish, their knowledge shallow, and furthermore, their moral principles are mean".

And in an age that rarely bothers to distinguish shallow novelty from true moral engagement, that is an act of courage.

The GOP, once a relatively sane and stable political platform, with solid -- if wildly uptight -- principles, now wallowing in the shallow end of the moral and intellectual pool for its basic survival.

I rediscovered puns that wormed their way permanently into my memory, absurd comedy gags, and a cast of shallow, entitled characters with no moral compasses.

Might the characters of London Irish all turn out to be shallow, sex-obsessed reprobates with no moral compass to speak of?

Writing of cloning's potential for commodifying human life and further depersonalizing reproduction, the moral philosopher Leon Kass warned, "Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder".