| Confucian thought is characterized by a spirit of humanism, rationalism, and moralism. |
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| Policies to avoid bias in the conduct and reporting of research should be guided by scientific principles, not by moralism or prejudice. |
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| The cases reek of legal paternalism and legal moralism but little reference is made to ideas of personal autonomy or sovereignty. |
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| Through misplaced moralism, political expediency, or apathy, America is ruinously mishandling the underground economy. |
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| They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box. |
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| His first two novels suffered from a high-toned moralism that was equal parts political correctness and vaguely Zen-flavored mysticism. |
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| The former live their lives within a rigid moralism and behavioral codes and have a supercilious social pretense. |
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| For a punctilious lack of wit and a simultaneous devotion to moralism, few can match him. |
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| The leadership shifted its focus to a more general and more secular moralism that was concerned with ethical conduct and culture. |
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| Indeed, many people tend to think that to avoid illiberal conclusions about moral legislation one must reject legal moralism as such. |
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| Republicanism has become a southern gothic farce of paranoia, resentment, scandal, and hypocritical moralism. |
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| It is populist moralism to talk about not investing in arms companies. |
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| He was a moralist deeply suspicious of how moralism is used. |
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| To be sure it is not always easy to distinguish between legal moralism and moral paternalism. |
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| It is over ten years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and yet your projects contain a strong hint of the gulags and mollifying moralism. |
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| It is not those who hand out other people's money or convert their moralism into a well-paid profession who are social and moral. |
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| The dime novel, which had emerged in 1860, had created an appetite among children for more exciting fare than Sunday-school moralism. |
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| When we forget that our longing for the good and the true is grounded in the beautiful, the spiritual life degenerates into moralism and perfectionism. |
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| Helping someone to ease moralism and guilt is the super-ego, but helping someone due to respect for others' rights, because this respect preserves the interior picture of coherence, is the coherent-self. |
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| It tackled this delicate subject without excessive moralism or melodrama. |
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| Roosevelt needed no broken-windows theory to drive his crusade, just an outraged silk-stocking moralism, and fin de siècle New York City gave him plenty to be outraged about. |
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| If one believes, as Plato does, that acting wrongly damages the soul of the agent, then it will be possible to invoke moral paternalism rather than legal moralism. |
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| In particular moral paternalism should be distinguished from legal moralism, i.e. the idea that certain ways of acting are morally wrong or degrading and may be prohibited. |
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| Moreover, there are some forms of legal moralism that do seem to justify enforcing moral norms, even though the behavior in question does not cause harm. |
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| Reform should be driven by civil rights and liberties, not by moralism. |
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| If clients are aware of the situation, they are to be blamed from the standpoint not of bourgeois respectability or moralism but of civic responsibility and objective complicity with the people-trafficking racket. |
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| Whether you are gay or heterosexual, the profound problems are the same... In zen buddhism, the question of the behaviour and of the morals is asked, but morals does not mean moralism. |
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| Frustration and impatience over the disparity between our small size and slender roots in the working class and our proletarian internationalist purpose have led both to opportunist lunges and sectarian moralism. |
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| Historically, stigma and discrimination have caused public debate on prostitution to be shaped by moralism rather than thoughtful research, study and consultation with those most affected. |
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| Thus, it handles the situations of narrow religiosity and moralism. |
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| That requires a realistic approach, without moralism. |
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| However the Methodists changed and in the 1880s moved into the Liberal Party, drawn in large part by Gladstone's intense moralism. |
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| The Madea films thrive on an ugly mix of minstrelsy and moralism. |
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| Price's provocative piece on culture and moralism may have application in a number of prevention areas. |
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| Zanchi tends toward the moralism of Zwingli and seems relatively less influenced by Luther's approach to law and gospel. |
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| And although Devlin's patterned minidresses and Pan Am travel bag give the work a period flavor, Bernadette never loses itself to nostalgia, moralism, or hagiography. |
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| Moralism gives way to causalism as scientific research enthrones necessity above volition. |
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