But Hughes is a crime writer, concerned with appearances.
His book is concerned with morality, which tends to get short shrift in the self-improvement literature.
At one time, sociologists were centrally concerned with morality, issues like social cohesion, values, the goals and norms that structure society, and the ways individuals get socialized to reproduce those concerns.
Americans are concerned with morality and honor, not just legality and effectiveness.
Kant believed that rationality is required, but that it should be concerned with morality and good will.
Earlier writers concerned with the need for politicians to dirty their hands with immoral behaviour show some of this vacillation, sometimes stressing the extreme stakes that are involved, but more often appearing to view the political process generally as above morality, or at least operating with a different morality.
Into the Trees is intensely concerned with the morality of thought and deed without being in any way moralistic.
This book is the third in a trilogy concerned with the morality of various actions that affect the birth, life, and death of organisms.
But clarity and detail add a dimension to the situation that assumption lacks, and those among Trump's base who consider themselves concerned with public morality are now faced with an uncomfortable reality.
Because Breaking Bad is concerned with personal morality and not politics, the idea that someone with a stable, middle class job might resort to cooking meth to provide for his family is presented as a given: extreme, perhaps, but not incredible.
Such a theory is not concerned with the morality, religious beliefs, motives or ideological preferences of individual political leaders.
