To discover an answer and then implement it among competing interests requires moral imagination, technical ingenuity and political skill. (religion-online.org)
But if the churches are unwilling to exercise their own moral imagination, they hardly can urge such labor on other institutions. (religion-online.org)
Kirsch, who also wrote a good (though only good) book on Lionel Trilling is going back to the earlier critics who read and wrote with supple cultural and moral imaginations rather than feeding literature into clattering theoretical contraptions. (firstthings.com)