What are the major features of the individualistic, traditionalistic, and moralistic political cultures? |
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Gone are the pompous, moralistic tomes full of Victorian values and happy endings. |
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We need to have more debate and action about the real issues rather than another moralistic and ultimately fruitless debate. |
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For goodness sake, give it a rest and come down off your moralistic and judgmental perch. |
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Courses in literature, social science, and science were analytical, not moralistic. |
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All these moralistic pathologies are likely to impinge on individual liberty and economic efficiency. |
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The romantics are moralistic, rebellious against the perceived dominant power, and combative against any who appear to stray from the true path. |
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They're fun, they're violent, and they have a moralistic narrative frame that makes them palatable to most political persuasions. |
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The text offered a curious blend of scientific background and moralistic anthropomorphism. |
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The latter is a moralistic bore who puts intellectual curiosity second to her desire to pontificate. |
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He became more aggressive and personal, more didactic, more accusatory, more moralistic. |
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But if he wants to be so moralistic, shouldn't his ministers also behave morally? |
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And I confess, all political affiliations aside, the President's slow, studied attempts at sincerity and moralistic homilies make my teeth ache. |
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This is a guy who almost certainly has hordes of groupies attending his every whim, but here he is getting all moralistic. |
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My objection to his reading is that it is too fiercely moralistic and diminishes Shakespeare's spirit of intellectual inquiry. |
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Fortunately, the message couched within the narrative is neither excessively moralistic nor priggish. |
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I realized that this self-abasement or internalized moralistic rebuke was what I had been writing about from the very beginning. |
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Whatever their true motivations, there can be little doubt that the company is adopting an increasingly moralistic stance toward its customers, and internet users in general. |
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These early novels and magazines were marked by a moralistic and often patriotic tone, and featured historical heroes and model children. |
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People who disagree with them are considered prudish, backward, inhibited, and moralistic. |
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To impose standards on other countries can come across as presumptuous, moralistic or patronising. |
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These are perceived as being holier-than-thou, i.e. moralistic and judgmental. |
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General population participants viewed Canada as being a country with values similar to Sweden's: calm, peaceful, and moralistic. |
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Humane Values: No moralistic judgment is made, either to condemn or to support use of substances, regardless of level of use or mode of intake. |
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Unfortunately, courts are rarely moved by moralistic attacks of statutes that the accused view as unjust. |
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His talent lies in navigating thornier moralistic hinterlands. |
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I detest any attempt to sell science for political or moralistic ends. |
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What is wrong is the inability to resist the temptation of delivering a moralistic little homily when someone does take out one of your seductively promoted loans. |
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His colleagues take him for a moralistic prig, but we sense powerful appetites, and honesty that is less an emanation of virtue than a stay against chaos. |
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But those who have spoored him across the country on his speaking engagements say he is a deeply moralistic man who feels strongly about principles and public conduct. |
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Asking a student to weigh what swearing or deliberate indifference says about his or her character accomplishes more than moralistic finger-wagging. |
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Structural models revealed that aesthetic, moralistic and negativistic attitudes were the stronger predictors of support. |
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Like Gladstone, Mr Blair favours a highly moralistic style of foreign policy. |
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Pushed by Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, the new rules have a clear moralistic streak. |
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An older sister, Sophie, had died aged six months but throughout Aldiss's childhood she was held up as a paragon of childlike virtue, a moralistic ghost hovering over him. |
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Other countries' business cultures have more moralistic attitudes towards bankruptcy. |
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I suggest the expression moralistic creationism or deistic creationism to describe the thesis of a supernatural origin of morality. |
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It is their freedom from the traditional literary, anecdotal, or moralistic associations of painting that has caused him to be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern art. |
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I'm simply saying that humanitarian and moralistic claims by themselves are neither a sufficient nor necessary explanation. |
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So, why is it, then that are there so few movies lately that are not jaded, tawdry, humorlessly moralistic, or amorally violent? |
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Having inflexible, overly moralistic policies for dealing with those who deal in drugs may be unrealistic in this environment if there are other priorities. |
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In the face of such injustice, any kind of moralistic argument should be thrown out. |
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He gave them a brief history of his culture and explained his heritage before telling traditional native stories, complete with moralistic values. |
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It is easy in such conditions to be moralistic, Kantian, well-intentioned. |
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This might resemble George Orwell's 1984 with its tyrannic, manipulative government, glossed over by a veneer of humanitarian-sounding doublethink and moralistic rationalizations, and is a very real possibility. |
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Aesthetic and moralistic attitudes were positively, and negativistic attitudes negatively, correlated with support for conservation in both groups. |
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Yet rather than mitigating Burckhardt's verdict, Karsten fully embraces it, minus the former's moralistic overtones. |
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These plays are typical of his work in their use of the moralistic tone of traditional drama, in the rush of their prose, in their boisterousness, and in their mixture of realistic detail with a romanticized plot. |
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It appears that the lack of ability of European authorities to control the spread of the disease is to some extent linked to these moralistic debates. |
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Because it is prevailingly subjective and coloured by an emotional rather than intellectual or moralistic tone, its themes have a universal quality almost unaffected by time. |
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The moralistic view of art is still, on the whole, the unarticulated view of art held by the masses, particularly when they are under the sway of a dominant religious or political doctrine. |
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We are afraid to be labelled backward, old-fashioned, prudish, moralistic, etc. Our pride can make us afraid to stand up for honest values because we want to look like we are forward-thinking individuals. |
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Where necessary retraining of health workers should be undertaken in order that STD care is given without undesirable judgemental and moralistic attitudes. |
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What Webb offers is a sobering, moralistic way of looking at the world. |
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His foreign-policy vision was resolutely moralistic and highly ideological, dominated by a dichotomous view of England as a corrupt and degenerate engine of despotism and France as the enlightened wave of the future. |
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The overbearing moralistic tone was explicit in Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, a masterpiece in its bizarre way, but one of the most unpleasant works of fiction I have ever read. |
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Far from prompting second thoughts about fiscal policy, this has provoked a moralistic manhunt. In some ways, Mr Depardieu's decision was unremarkable. |
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We must reject this reform and reject its logic, that of pure, simple and discriminatory eradication of production, of Community tobacco production, and we must reject its ideological, moralistic and simplistic inspiration. |
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They took a more emotional and almost moralistic view of this. |
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Therefore, there is no place here for ideology or moralistic biases. |
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If the church is moralistic, dogmatic, and sentimental, which unfortunately is often the case, it acts as a surrogate family, taking over the role of parent, although not in a spiritual way. |
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They portray the arrogance of that party and its members in imposing their moralistic, bigoted and, I would say, hateful views on other members of Canadian society. |
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Unfortunately, moralistic approaches to HIV prevention, which place new obstacles in the way of reaching populations that most need information and services, hinder such a comprehensive approach. |
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When I came to Bonn, the French considered Germany boring, a country obsessed with its economic success, rather moralistic and with no sense of humour. |
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The Nonconformist conscience was the moralistic influence of the Nonconformist churches in British politics in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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While Gladstone was a moralistic evangelical inside the Church of England, he had strong support in the Nonconformist community. |
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The dissenters gave significant support to moralistic issues, such as temperance and sabbath enforcement. |
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The nonconformist conscience, as it was called, was repeatedly called upon by Gladstone for support for his moralistic foreign policy. |
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The colonists rejected a moralistic lifestyle and complained that their colony could not compete economically with the Carolina rice plantations. |
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Historians before the 1940s argued that moralistic reformers such as William Wilberforce were primarily responsible. |
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One was that he became disenchanted with the moralistic attacks and counterattacks of officials, rooted in an abstract Confucian orthodoxy. |
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This moralistic regime demonized gays while it hid true monsters. |
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Meanwhile, Adam''s moralistic attitude threatens to affect his medical judgement when he treats a patient accused of assaulting an underage girl. |
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Derber's tone is moralistic, but compelling on rational grounds as well. |
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But they shouldn't exaggerate, they shouldn't be moralistic. |
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But the playwright's moralistic statement is devastatingly realized by a first-rate ensemble under the fluid, insightful direction of Jeremiah Morris. |
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And preaching moral outrage against others while living and doing what it objects to is a necessary part of legalistic, moralistic right-wing religions. |
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Our gentleman protagonist, alienatingly censorious and moralistic, is metaphorically and literally unseeing, missing what exists literally almost under his nose. |
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Reith, an intensely moralistic executive, was in full charge. |
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While a moralistic speech won't convince kids not to try drugs, a story about people affected by drugs might. |
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She was glad to escape her judgmental and moralistic parents. |
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