Sentences with phrase «moral decay of»

In this film adaptation, the bleak streets of 19th Century London are recreated in dramatic detail, providing the perfect environment for us to observe the moral decay of Benjamin Barker, a barber who is sent to jail for fifteen years on false charges by Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who fancied his wife.

Yet this is typical of her stories that involve a lot of gossip shared over tea sipping in countless drawing rooms, while Austen examines the moral decay of some of 19th century England's wealthy upper crust.

The moral decay of imperial Rome was overcome by the gospel for that day, and the moral decay of Western civilization will be likewise overcome by the gospel for our day.

Christianity Today's board chairman, Harold Ockenga, announced in 1977 that that magazine would move to a suburb of Wheaton, Illinois because» «Deleterious things happen to attitudes if a person lives here»» in Washington, D.C., amid the moral decay of soaring liquor consumption and illegitimate births.49 Sojourners, on the other hand, recently chose to relocate its intentional community and editorial offices in the heart of that same capital district, amid the suffering and dispossessed.

«moral Decay of America» well guess what billy boy.

SIN is responsible for the moral decay of the world.

Save your breath and energy for solving more dire national problems... like national debt or the moral decay of our society.

Not exact matches

Due to liberal agenda's push for moral decay, that pillar is diminishing and on the brink of collapse.

Dr.King was a social conservative and would be «disgusted» at the decay of morals of the Black community and family thanks to the Federal Gov welfare hand - out system now and everyone» as a baby daddy...

Notwithstanding this reviewer's Protestant evangelical confessional commitments, there are difficulties with the attempt to ground the thesis of moral decay and reconstruction in lessons from the sixteenth century.

If one stands up and proclaims that gay marriage is ok and hurts majority of the population it is not called hate whereas if anyone points a finger at the moral decay it is defined as hate.»

My racist relatives in Mississippi used to talk about the moral decay brought by integrating black people into white society... of cours, e they didn't complain about the cross burnings or lynchings being moral decay..

I have been divagating into Will Durant, not irrelevantly but mainly to go to the roots of our moral bankruptcy in defending human rights and averting the gradual decay of democracy.

The Christian life is not about tolerance... but truth... The Bible is quite specific about what sin is... we must love the sinner but not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and speak the truth in love... tolerance means accepting everything without judgment... we can not do that in this society in the midst of moral decay.

The moral fiber of the nation is decaying; families, schools, cities, and entertainment are close to disaster.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

This freedom is often pointed to as a sign of disease and moral decay.

(CNN)-- Billy Graham, the dean of American evangelists, has once again broken his usual silence on hot - button issues, defending the president of the Chick - fil - A restaurant chain for his opposition to same - sex marriage days after issuing a letter decrying what he sees as the nation's moral decay.

If we are to reverse the decay of American cities, we must realize that at root their problems are moral.

Yet even effective jobs programs do not fully address the cultural decay and moral disintegration of poor black communities.

He's the last of God's original Giants... He will soon pass on right after we enter into unreturnable moral decay..

Since there is so much evidence of the moral decay that follows a loss of theistic conviction and so little evidence of the maintenance of civilization apart from this conviction, the burden of proof is on the person who answers Meiklejohn's question in the affirmative.

Havel's lineage was clear in his New Year's address to the nation where he spoke of the Marxist - Leninist legacy of a decayed moral environment:

There is a moral decay, a social emptiness, a «homelessness,» to borrow Berger's phrase, that is rushing into the space which the church has left — all of which is leading in the direction of the decay of the social fabric and not the advent of a socialist order.

This destruction of a moral system — or, more grandly, the decay of a culture — is a matter of concern for those of antifaith as well as those of faith.

For the forces of spiritual entropy or moral decay like fear, hate and prejudice, he has the forces of trust, hope, belief, love and understanding.

Some readers will doubtless complain that this conservatism is too Romantic, too English, one that can not be sustained over the course of a life, and certainly not in times of crisis or moral and social decay.

But since de Bruyn doesn't evaluate the moral, political, and spiritual content of Burke's choice - a content we could assess for its continuing merit today - the «polite society» defended by Burke seems hardly preferable to the cultural decay he feared.

Ah, the sickeningly sweet (like decay) of the self righteous special people, blessed by god for their highly moral stance.

Sodom and Gomorrah and most free people when moral guide lines were lost led to the decay and destruction of society.

The swift undercurrent of moral decay continues to take most Christians by surprise while our pragmatic approach to morality rooted in tradition and....

In contemporary Judaism, the decay of the moral sense takes yet another form.

They blamed the current state of degradation on «moral decay» and «our insatiable desire to manipulate and control the planet's limited resources, and our greed for limitless profit in markets».

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

During the more than half century of my life, we have seen an unprecedented decay in our American culture, a decay that has eroded the foundations of our collective values and moral standards of conduct.

Not once in his genealogy of modern decay does he consider that the core failure of Christian moral witness might be a significant factor in muting the creative role of religious faith in public life.

So even if there are few tangible harms that point to our moral decay, any move away from their vision of society is evidence of declining virtue.»

Yet the more she won, the more she seemed, to many traditional Muslims, to be a symbol of moral decay.

Sadly, the debate about knife crime remains full of hand wringing about moral decay, and not enough focus on the social conditions which underpin it.

This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).

Its roots can be traced back a century to three - time Democratic candidate for president William Jennings Bryan, who ran fundamentalist campaigns against the theory of evolution, which he argued was causing moral decay in the nation's youth by undermining the authority of the Bible.

Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch.com, the self - appointed arbiter of correctness in the fields of medicine and nutrition, describes Weston Price as «a dentist who maintained that sugar causes not only tooth decay but physical, mental, moral, and social decay as well.»

Pay - per - letter schemes encourage the spread of moral decay.

And their use of sound, starting with the hotel desk bell that gratingly reverberates for a full minute, is as brilliant as their visualization of moral decay.

These themes of innocence amid moral decay, of lost souls seeking redemption, are genre benchmarks, but Maclean knows they can still be effective.

If Geoff Andrew in Time Out criticised the film for its schematic confrontation between right and wrong, alongside Wall Street, Oliver Stone's hectoring 1987 critique of contemporary moral decay, also starring Charlie Sheen, Eight Men Out remains a modest nicely scripted account.

Because of the lag of exhibition here, I had to include a gem from 2014 East European cinema, Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviafan (Leviathan 2014), a tale of moral decay and corruption with Tolstoyan and Dostoyevskyan characters falling apart.

As Chris Fujiwara has written, Tourneur's method is not an «absence of style» but «a style that emphasizes absence,» and it is that total control of physical and moral absence that makes Out of the Past one of the quintessential works in a genre riddled with decay.

Consequently, State of Decay doesn't pull any punches with character loss, the realities of life in the community and the dynamic structure can force you to make very difficult moral decisions.

Similarly, Agathe Snow uses industrial materials such as fiberglass, pegboard and steel resulting in refined works that speak of environmental and moral decay, giving new life to the factory - made materials she uses in her assemblages.