The core of that morality comes from the father; in effect, Jor-El is God the Father, and Clark Kent's Joseph is Jonathan Kent, fifth-generation Kansas farmer and man of modest but unshakeable principle.
Carbury — the closest thing in the novel to an authorial stand-in — is not only a man of unshakeable principle but also a self-righteous prig who never hesitates to tell friends and family how to live their lives.
At the same time, he's guided by a single, unshakeable principle — the elimination of slavery — that drives him relentlessly forward, sacrificing other worthy notions on either side, whether ending the war as soon as possible and reintegrating the South into the Union, or pushing ahead to offer reparations that would bring freed slaves toward full practical equality.
Ms. Bok is not a complete absolutist about the need always to tell the truth, and she provides examples where that need should be tempered, but unlike the two recent authors, she tends to seek an unshakeable principle, and she ends in a homily: "Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain.
She has grace and charm and wit, but also a steely determination and an unshakeable sense of principle, as you will discover.
Tony Benn was a Labour colossus, whose principles remained unshakeable throughout his life.
And what he meant is that liberalism is a set of timeless principles, married to an unshakeable belief in human progress.
Despite the unshakeable belief here in the Fawlty Towers principle, less is more, it hasn't had to self-destruct or decay after a dozen episodes.
"Our principle to collectively seek the return of the four islands that originally belonged to Japan is unshakeable," Toshio Koizumi, head of a group of former islanders, said in a newspaper interview this week.
At the same time, he's guided by a single, unshakeable principle the elimination of slavery that drives him relentlessly forward, sacrificing other worthy notions on either side, whether ending the war as soon as possible and reintegrating the South into the Union, or pushing ahead to offer reparations that would bring freed slaves toward full practical equality.
