moralism

Example Sentences

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Madame Tussauds said it "never comments or moralises on the character or specific activities of those figures we include".

From BBC • May 12, 2013

She neither sentimentalises her characters nor moralises about them: she simply presents them as they are.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2010

She is not a beauty or a grace, and she is thoughtful and quiet, and so she moralises, instead of enjoying, as the world goes by.

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

There is a restaurant down below, where the son of the late Yturbide dines daily, and everybody points him out to us, and moralises over him.

From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Tylor, Edward Burnett

It is not the gods who moralise man, it is man who moralises the gods.

From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman