Sentence examples for their moralistic from inspiring English sources

Pundits wanted Lower Manhattan to remain a dead zone, a backdrop for their moralistic pronouncements.

He took part in the savage transaction of stardom: his reckless self-indulgence satisfied his audiences' fantasies, and his destruction satisfied their moralistic envy.

Later in the first decade of the new century, though, an influx of bold young women, allergic to the old pieties about female purity and comfortable working with men, displaced their moralistic, teetotaling elders.

In essays like "The Hypocrisy of Puritanism" and a speech entitled "The Failure of Christianity", Goldman made more than a few enemies among religious communities by attacking their moralistic attitudes and efforts to control human behavior.

And the Republican Party is driven to the right by those very same evangelicals who bring their moralistic crusades on everything from gay rights to abortion to the table.

I gather the idea is to keep people in a perpetual state of fear and anxiety, particularly about their fiscal and health security (selling inoffensive, decorative polka dots amounts to peddling art as comfort food), and it's exactly at this moment when the socially conservative and religious forces move in, taking advantage of this fear in order to assert their moralistic, archaic agendas.

Their cartoons were moralistic and bland, their hosts well-groomed NIDA graduates with straight teeth and unblinking eyes.

These works interweave social criticism and their author's moralistic aims with imaginative plots and premises.

Forget the idea that Britney's job was to set any sort of example; calls for pop stars to be role models, especially in their music, are moralistic cant.

These plays are typical of his work in their use of the moralistic tone of traditional drama, in the rush of their prose, in their boisterousness, and in their mixture of realistic detail with a romanticized plot.

"I think he knew there would be fallout among the swing voters who respond to the perception of political leaders being moralistic in their stands.