Sentence examples for understated moral from inspiring English sources

His standard role was that of a tough loner whose violent behaviour conformed to his own understated moral principles.

Lively, funny and well paced, the book offers all you could ask from a good adventure story - an empathetic hero, heartless baddies, obtuse parents, and every imaginable species of dragon, as well as lots of excitement, plenty of twists and turns and a strong, if understated, moral.

Dr Kaare Schmidt, DR series acquisitions executive, said: "Set against the mountainous backdrop of Aberystwyth, Hinterland has the suspenseful noir atmosphere of understated violence and moral ambiguity that defines the new Scandinavian wave of social crime dramas like The Killing".

With the exception of a skillfully wrought antiwar story titled "The Gifts of War," which manages to be gently anti-pacifist as well, there is little that is overtly political in Drabble's first collection of short fiction, "A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $24), but much that suggests an understated and oblique moral vehemence.

Trust is an understated and rarely discussed moral value, and it is the lack of trust that many Americans feel toward their country that threatens to make us a second-rate nation.

Real luxury wasn't just understated; it took on a moral dimension.

In doing something ghastly, she has been reborn as an innocent, an economical and understated image of vampirism's moral ambiguity.

"Robert Adams: The Place We Live," a splendid retrospective exhibition of more than 250 prints dating from the 1960s to 2009 at the Yale University Art Gallery here, surveys an oeuvre that is as compelling for its understated style as for its moral ferocity.

This splendid retrospective show of more than 250 prints from the late 1960s to 2009 surveys an oeuvre that is as compelling for its understated metaphorical resonance as for its moral ferocity.

This splendid retrospective show of more than 250 prints dating from the late 1960s to 2009 surveys an oeuvre that is as compelling for its understated metaphorical resonance as for its moral ferocity.

Arta Dobroshi is also impressive, with an understated style that does not labour her moral dilemma.