immorality

A universal standard for immorality in art may be an impossibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Shaffer, whose plays include “Equus,” “The Royal Hunt of the Sun” and “Black Comedy,” is drawn to existential reckonings, and in “Amadeus” he’s written his cris de coeur on the immorality of the universe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

Over the past few weeks, the Taliban government began severing fibre-optic internet connections across several provinces, saying this was part of an effort to prevent immorality.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

It’s all there in the Reuters reporting, and there is no need to expatiate on the obvious immorality of the operation, quite apart from its colossal stupidity.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

The immorality of the bantustan policy, whereby 70 percent of the people would be apportioned only 13 percent of the land, was obvious.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

For all the brazen immoralities and the raunchy jokes that jam her scripts, Ms. Headland, who had a strict Catholic upbringing, remains a deeply moral writer.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2016

A member since 1995, Ms. Adams said the expulsion reflected a change in the group, whose previous dinners were rife, she said, with disturbances and immoralities of various kinds.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2014

Moreover let me say that the bill is chiefly an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whatever its immoralities, it commits them on the whole because it enjoys them, and not because it wants to demonstrate against Victorian conventions or shock Babbitt.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is never suggested that the cat has walked off with them, as might be in England, where all kinds of unspeakable immoralities are put down to that animal.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by J. (John) Macgowan