The series does not deploy these themes didactically or even moralistically. From Wordnik.com. [What Girls Want] Reference
Unless you're allergic to milk or moralistically vegan, don't order soy milk!. From Wordnik.com. [Sitting in a café.] Reference
Why moralistically ram the multi-culti nowhere down the throats of a perfectly tolerant people?. From Wordnik.com. [One More Trip on the Immigration Merry-Go-Round] Reference
That audience would be a teen one, and making the film as nice and friendly and as moralistically. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: April 2010 Archives] Reference
“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity,” Zuckerberg says moralistically. From Wordnik.com. [The Facebook Effect] Reference
… If you're a GOP candidate, would you rather moralistically denounce Mark Foley's behavior -- or defend your position on Iraq?. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm Roundup] Reference
Perhaps there is some ground to stand on without being either prissy or purist, either moralistically religious, or entirely cynical. From Wordnik.com. [Carol Smaldino: A Note on George Carlin about Steroids and Sports from a Practical Idealist] Reference
That audience would be a teen one, and making the film as nice and friendly and as moralistically strong as the teen-wolf/vampire films. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: Beastly new trailer online] Reference
And so it goes, politcal character assassination in convenient tandem: Tweedledee hotly misrepresents and Tweedledum moralistically tars. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Telegraph « Climate Audit] Reference
Feminism is shot through with puritanical Judeo-Christian assumptions, which exalt the soul over the body and moralistically devalue the physical realm. From Wordnik.com. [Eyes Of The Beholders] Reference
Obviously if you fear for your life if you threaten the power of the drug gangs then I am not going to moralistically lecture you for not being a good citizen. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Start Snitchin’] Reference
I'm a big Jodie Foster fan these days, and here she's playing a moralistically challenged role that has her either good or bad, it depends on your point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: Weekend Films to Stalk: 28th - 30th September] Reference
We were proud of being outsiders, yet resentful of not being included, and yet again weirdly and moralistically haughty because of our self-imposed outsider status. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer: Obama's Critics From the Left: As Wrong as His Critics From the Right] Reference
But of course you are not speaking sociologically but rather moralistically, asking in effect what kind of person I must be if I am willing to break a law for the sake of convenience. From Wordnik.com. [mordida] Reference
After all, people in general tend to have moral misgivings about them, such that even if they deny the state any right to prevent them, they (moralistically?) declare they should be “rare”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Abortion Views Getting More Partisan] Reference
Perhaps when we get further along in neuroscience and body chemistry we will see this kind of behavior as treatable and see it less moralistically -- nevertheless, it can't just be swept under the rug. From Wordnik.com. [Sexual Harassment and Idiocy] Reference
However he soon becomes addicted to how the drug makes him feel, and when the trial is shut down with patients showing violent and moralistically questionable behaviour, he keeps his supply and continues to treat himself. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker Review: Den du Frygter (Fear Me Not)] Reference
(It is almost as hard to take seriously the record industry executives who moralistically denounce the downloading in the name of the poor, suffering artists, when they preside over a system of contracts with those same artists that makes feudal indenture look benign.). From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Eisenhower's moralistically overbearing Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, summed up the administration's world outlook thusly: "For us there are two sorts of people in the world: there are those who are Christians and support free enterprise and there are the others.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
'Neon Bible' is earnest and moralistically cynical. From Wordnik.com. [Clickmusic] Reference
“they (moralistically?) declare they should be “rare”.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Abortion Views Getting More Partisan] Reference
It is one thing to grandstand moralistically but it is another to be honestly concerned for practical well being. From Wordnik.com. [StrategyPage.com] Reference
It shows that moralistically dividing the world into good guys and bad guys, while emotionally satisfying, is reductive and self-defeating. From Wordnik.com. [Salon] Reference
I'm not trying to moralistically say here is black and here is white; I'm just telling stories about the characters I want to tell stories about. From Wordnik.com. [Pat's Fantasy Hotlist] Reference
After all, once it is concluded that white workers are privileged and have a material stake in the reproduction of racism, what can left and progressive people do besides moralistically posture?. From Wordnik.com. [CPUSA Front Page] Reference
CBS also confirmed that the next edition of "Survivor" indeed will be a "Heroes vs. Villains" format, bringing together memorable players from past seasons into two moralistically opposed tribes. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Until this point, the Israeli media-and most of the country's liberal intelligentsia, never mind the militant right wing-had been moralistically defending the bombing, and sometimes actually cheering it on. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
Until this point, the Israeli media -- and most of the country's liberal intelligentsia, never mind the militant right wing -- had been moralistically defending the bombing, and sometimes actually cheering it on. From Wordnik.com. [Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free] Reference
And he moralistically accused other politicians, including Mr. Obama, of being under Fannie's and Freddie's financial influence; it turns out that a firm owned by his own campaign manager was being paid by Freddie until just last month. From Wordnik.com. [Economist's View] Reference
This would be a chapter in which politicians preen moralistically as they throw patriotic officials, who helped keep this country safe, to the wolves, and in which national leaders posture politically while endangering the nation's security. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The problem with Peak Oil the theory isn't that it's wrong in noting that industry depletes resources, and that oil may, sooner or later, reach a production plateau, it's that it sees those facts through a moralistically-charged and economically-challenged lens. From Wordnik.com. [Peak Oil News]
I note that not only does Kinsley’s column explicitly discuss the lack of evidence for Kinsley’s thesis, but it also details the theoretical error Kinsley is making — thinking too moralistically about the economy. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Kinsley’s Transcendental Deduction of Hyperinflation] Reference
'Neon Bible' is earnest and moralistically cynical. ". From Wordnik.com. [Clickmusic] Reference
I'm very moralistically based. From Wordnik.com. [Drupal] Reference
17 Again, at least moralistically. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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