However, the inevitable parental reconciliation at the finale is a piece of moralising too far. |
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He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians. |
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He avoids moralising and hectoring his readers, going instead for strong uncomplicated identification with his leading character. |
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It's as if our moralising politicians and would-be censors are caught in the grip of scopophobia, a morbid fear of the visual. |
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This sort of smug, self-righteous moralising is exactly what the original American student was speaking out against. |
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If, instead of providing cure or care, doctors become intrusive and moralising, they will soon lose the respect of their patients. |
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There is little moralising strain in French culture, and less vocal indignation at corruption than in Italy. |
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Then the liberal boofheads get going with their moralising puke, and many people end up sympathising with the guilty star. |
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As long as this schizophrenia continues, voting on moralising resolutions is pure hypocrisy and I shall have no part in it. |
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It seems out of key with the moralising and religious aims of memento mori. |
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Europe does not need any more mawkish, moralising Christers who speak of peace and cooperation. |
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The greatest obstacle to moralising public life is the absence of honest believers in the cogs of society. |
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Both party leaders regard Mr Havel as a moralising and interfering old fogey. |
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He often mentions this in his writings in a language which may seem to us moralising and outdated. |
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It's a great way to examine negative attitudes and behaviour without moralising too much. |
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If we do not succeed in using them successfully, the world will see a growing gap between our often moralising declarations and the reality. |
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You have been intimidated by their moralising self-righteousness, brow-beaten by their puritanical spartanism, seduced by their appointment-diary ethics. |
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Boaistuau adds much moralising and sentiment, and the characters indulge in rhetorical outbursts. |
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He became the much-needed soul of the Sixties folk boom, bringing the open emotionality of gospel to a scene predominantly given to sententious moralising and po-faced traditional purism. |
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Where another writer might have dished out such experiences with a moralising linctus or a fake spirit of adventure, Lewis gave them to us page after page, year after year, as the most delicious of unaging wines. |
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A Shavian twist gives one of the most coruscating and convincing speeches – against conventional moralising – to the scoundrel Dubedat, who knocks out his opponents cold. |
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Book and newspaper publishers, media companies such as Viacom, businesses which depend on Google's search rankings and a lengthening queue of others are tired of moralising sermons. |
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Some Poles had hoped they might finally get a government dominated neither by cynical ex-communists, nor by moralising anti-communists fixated on the past. |
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Because if all it means is moralising to Developing World countries, however useful that may be, it is too little and it is highly hypocritical on our part. |
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This kind of moralising and selective memory among the European socialists shows that historical materialism has been superseded by hysterical relativism. |
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In this area, Europe is merely the Trojan horse for small, moralising groups which are settling scores and seeking, in fact, to eliminate their political opponents. |
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Unless Parliament wants to stand as a moralising policeman giving lessons to the whole world, it does not have the least authority to judge the behaviour of the Russian forces in Chechnya. |
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In a nutshell, this is not about moralising but about the European Union making an effective contribution to resolving this problem in Afghanistan. |
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Bridging this ethical gap is not a matter of abstract moralising. |
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He reflects the Victorian period of his maturity in his feeling for order and his tendency towards moralising. |
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Furthermore, in unleashing the power of money, the Thatcherites, for all their moralising, contributed to the moral decay of the West. |
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Moralising on the basis of hurricanes and storm surges is not going to help anybody in the end. |
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