morality
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About 20 aid workers were arrested in June near the Iran border in Herat province by Afghanistan's morality police, because their beards were not long enough.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
"The medical profession and morality do not always walk hand-in-hand. If they did, this trial would be out of the question."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
A more substantive critique is that by emphasizing Odysseus’ feelings of guilt rather than his simple fealty to the gods, Mr. Nolan imposes an anachronistic Christian morality on the ancient world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
But there are unusual rewards for an intrepid company willing to test the boundaries of political and artistic morality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The heady taste of success had infused him further with morality and fired him with ambition for loftier attainments.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
More to the point, Hardy and Easton wrote, “pleasure is a complete and worthwhile goal” that needs neither validation nor antiquated moralities.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
Faith, politics, organized crime and shaded moralities haunt postwar Los Angeles, viscerally exposing the lie that this city of perpetual sun and stray breezes is paradise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2019
I’d love to hear the atheist perspective on what makes for a good religion, or the reason why different religions support different moralities.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2013
There is a real debate to be had – one that involves politics, ideologies, perhaps even moralities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2012
Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all the other products of the mind.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing morality
Lyndon B. Johnson on "The Great Society" (1964)
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"American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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