moralistic
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His take on Homer is, as I wrote in my original review, “a moralistic ‘Oppenheimer’ prequel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
To achieve some of these much-needed reforms, we must shift the cultural narrative — peeling back the moralistic and judgment-laced rhetoric around poverty, savings and retirement — and acknowledge existing structural barriers to savings.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025
They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
The same moralistic dichotomy that Jefferson saw inside the United States between discernible heroes and villains, he also projected into the international arena.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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