moralism

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Though the outcomes encoded here are colored by midcentury manners, they are surprisingly daring and averse to sedate moralism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Born in Virginia and educated in history and political science at Johns Hopkins University, Wilson became a respected intellectual in his fields with an interest in public service and a profound sense of moralism.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

“She wanted to go beneath moralism to something deeper, to sacrificial love,” said Munroe, now 73 and retired.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2020

In 1905, George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, referred to censorship-happy moralism as “Comstockery” in a letter to The New York Times.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2019

Clearly Theophilus Cibber's comical, lyrical exploitation in The Harlot's Progress of Hogarth's designs exhibits a more coherent dramatic structure than the tentative, disjointed medley of music and moralism in The Rake's Progress.

From The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) by Anonymous