Sentence examples for state of morals from inspiring English sources

We watched, not knowing exactly what she was after, but she spoke the whole time, carrying on a sort of conversation with herself, a monologue about the declining state of morals in the nation, about a new, aimless generation, and its startling lack of respect for the rules of society as they'd been handed down since the time when we were a colony of the Spanish Empire.

"The law", he whined, "leaves me in a state of moral castration which is almost inconceivable".

"This land of ours is headed for an extreme state of moral degradation," the incensed parent wrote to Kennedy.

He was working in the dark, in a self-inflicted state of moral shock, and attempting the impossible.

As his work went on he became progressively horrified, until he ended up "in a state of moral shock".

Hooliganism was rife and the country was in a state of moral panic as lurid images of fighting youths became a fixture on news bulletins.

… The world in its present state of moral advancement compared with its technical development would be eventually at the mercy of such a weapon".

Problem: If a pop-culture standby is retrievable only in the form of nostalgia for a state of moral infancy, what do you do with it?

Mr. Ong seems to think that the only way to make her sympathetic is to make her completely innocent, pitching the film into a state of moral confusion.

The nation has been in an arrested state of moral inquiry, continually examining its character, seeking some clarity about the madness it once so mindlessly saluted.

• While more bemoan the worsening state of moral values in the country, we are increasingly shifting our opinion on what is morally acceptable.