Rousseau, by contrast, cast his work as a speculative, and moralizing account of society in general. |
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Perhaps as a moralizing subtext, Alexander piped in a recording of a monastic chant of Psalm 51, a prayer for the remission of sins. |
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We cultivate a simple direct relationship with our being-no philosophizing, no moralizing, no judgments. |
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When we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, we finally let go of harmful patterns. |
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Kisor certainly isn't preachy or moralizing, but his characters do wrestle with complex social issues. |
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This is a direct continuation of the collectivist, moralizing poetry of the past. |
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It works, though, because it never puts moralizing ahead of story or character. |
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But today, the combination of American moralizing at home and cynicism abroad could severely harm relations between Europe and the United States. |
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The congregations sought to give practical demonstration of their belief by assisting and moralizing the working masses. |
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Rationalists do not regard moralizing as a legitimate function of government. |
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He made grisailles of the destitute and maimed which have a moralizing character. |
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Today we tend to dismiss the moralizing of the late Victorians who insisted that the unemployed were lazy, intemperate, or thriftless. |
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But this is not the time for sermonizing or moralizing over US foreign policy. |
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But overall, they have crafted an exceptional play, touching on matters of the heart in a way that uplifts without moralizing. |
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But this is not a book of statistics, and it's not weighted down with moralizing and anger. |
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It is a strange grafting of newer Buddhistic teaching with obviously older material that derived from a tradition of moralizing folktales. |
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The film's sheer quirkiness allows it to mercifully bypass any dime-store moralizing. |
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His constant moralizing and evangelizing about the superiority of Republican dogma is his right. |
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And then everyone begins blaming and moralizing, and there's a lot of talk and writing about the return to '50s morality. |
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The themes of the film are worn on its striped, embroidered sleeve, and often the script gets preachy with its sanctimonious moralizing. |
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In the same spirit, contemporary conservatives approach the family with plenty of moralizing sticks and carrots. |
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His poetic emblem books in particular, written in alexandrine verse and with a moralizing tone, brought him international renown. |
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Please don't let reporters use it as a soapbox for moralizing. |
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The Policraticus became widely known as its many moralizing stories proved a popular source for the teaching exempla cited by friars in their sermons. |
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Many of his pictures represent taverns and festive gatherings, but they often feature moralizing allusions, and he also painted scenes of impeccable genteelness. |
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Their main defects are shapelessness, an overinsistent moralizing, occasional gaucheness, and naiveté. |
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It's a relief that Tuck avoids the moralizing or false conclusiveness that might accompany her leaps in time and melodramatic material. |
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Or does moralizing have to take a more ambiguous tone to be acceptable? |
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The moralizing is given all the force which an accomplished rhetorician can provide and is enlivened by anecdote, hyperbole, and vigorous denunciation. |
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Though Coelho's novels continued to succeed both in Brazil and abroad, critics often characterized them as overly didactic and moralizing. |
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For example, many people can't see the difference between a moral text and a moralizing text, but they're nothing like each other. |
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Of course, there was last night's moralizing address that mentioned torture and so on. |
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In spite of that, do you feel that our society has become more homophobic and moralizing? |
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Plus, the melodrama belies the heavy moralizing that guides each Madea film. |
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Yet some countries regard calls on them to respect western standards and values as intrusive or moralizing. |
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When speaking of good governance, I am not referring to a moralizing concept imposed by outsiders. |
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Clearly, the market is seeking a new and vulnerable female public from which to profit and, without undue moralizing, we need to stop this. |
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Mere assertions and moralizing about social development and politics are of little use. |
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For five years I have fought, without paternalism or moralizing, to help the developing countries take charge of their own destiny. |
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The moralizing discourse only explains the personal crisis of the educator. |
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But Zachary Karabell writing for The Daily Beast says all of these reactions, whether sell orders or moralizing, are futile. |
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What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system. |
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All the moralizing and gravitas that accompanies a star player being arrested should be viewed as a form of Kabuki theater. |
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The mutual moralizing shock that, at one time, each had wandered wantonly down the path of premarital partying without inviting the other, nixes the upcoming nuptials. |
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Within hours, the moralizing Los Angeles local media had bungled this heaven-sent opportunity. |
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We are becoming a crazed culture of cheap criticism and pious moralizing, and in our self-absorption may well lose what we inherited from a better generation. |
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To saddle them with convenient moralizing about jeopardising the financial system by untimely disclosure of sensitive information only compounds the offence. |
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But she couldn't, and I just want to tell her that I think she is too self-righteous and moralizing and someday when she grows up a bit, she might understand. |
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While I am sharply critical of American unilateralism and realpolitik masquerading as the defence of liberty, at times I find our own moralizing irritating. |
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A body of moralizing commentarial literature grew around the ancient chronicles. |
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It also supposes that we contribute to moralizing the multinationals. |
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This is why moralizing messages make little if any impression. |
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Every moralizing messaging towards alcohol, even if it comes from a doctor, will risk to cause more disadvantages than benefits and it will rather incite youngsters to break the boundaries that are imposed upon them. |
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It was not a moralizing concern that inspired these words of Dominic. |
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The Chinese model comes free of conditions and unshackles African countries from the burdensome ethical and moralizing restraints imposed on them by Western States. |
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The realist tradition in British cinema continued to bear fruit with Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, a gripping drama about bleak lives on a housing estate, told observantly and tautly, without moralizing judgments. |
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Despite talk of the Internet as a site of quickly glimpsed imagery and viral cat videos, a solid core of old-fashioned moralizing, even sermonizing, punditry is part of the daily burden it presents. |
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Rather than using a purely moralizing approach, we decided to launch this preventive project and use their attraction to the new technologies and the cinema as a perfect opportunity to combine learning and creativity. |
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His lapses from ethical discrimination into thumpy moralizing manifest a peculiar schoolmarmish mistrust of his discernment. |
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The characters are all quirky and life-size, and, as with the burglaries in Breaking In, the treatment of drugs is refreshingly free of either moralizing or romanticizing. |
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It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country. |
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