moralism

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Could a sophisticated critic really want to reduce literature to moralisms and manners?

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2013

From the precarious hilarity of this crisis the play dwindles, among funny sayings and fetid moralisms, to a close which has been designed mainly for the entertainment and surprise of summer visitors to Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another set of moralisms and maxims crops up to bedevil discussion and decision about what is broadly called 'foreign aid.'

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a delicious spice of worldliness in the topics of conversation which was quite refreshing to him, accustomed as he was to the somewhat droning moralisms of his “congenial friends.”

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

American criticism of Poe is thick with moralisms.

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert