Sentences with phrase «moral seriousness»

What passes for moral seriousness in this world passes away pretty quickly.

This is important reading for all who take foreign policy with moral seriousness.

Nonetheless, this is a sophisticated primer for politicians who are open to thinking about their calling with moral seriousness.

Two millennia of creative and brilliant adaptation to powerlessness had a tendency of turning moral seriousness in on itself.

It names an issue of abiding moral seriousness, it identifies the good guys and the bad guys, and it implores people to get involved lest the cause be lost.

Yet he is a man of the utmost moral seriousness, determined to see things as they are and to live in an ethically rigorous way, according to the norms of justice we can know by reason.

The truth is that by taking the Jewish idea of God at its best and by treating this idea with thoroughgoing moral seriousness, sloughing off hostile adhesions and limitations, Jesus achieved a consequence so new as to be revolutionary.

The contrast between Trilling's «first» and «second» environment, between moral seriousness (Matthew Arnold) and non-moral vitality (D. H. Lawrence), is very close to Boulding's distinction between civilized and post-civilized.

In his Keir Hardie Lecture in South Wales on 9 July, Miliband accused Gordon Brown of having failed to renew Labour in office and meet the government's need for «greater moral seriousness and less indifference to the excesses of a celebrity - drenched culture».

Most test - of - faith pictures are painfully solemn, even Ingmar Bergman — esque, but writer - director John Michael McDonagh is the brother of playwright (now also filmmaker) Martin McDonagh, and they share a penchant for high moral seriousness enlivened — often jarringly — by an antic Hibernian spirit.

In other words, two millennia of creative and brilliant adaptation to powerlessness had a tendency of turning moral seriousness in on itself.

It is not irrational or irrelevant to consider the elimination of public acknowledgment of religion a likely contribution to the loss of moral seriousness in our civic life.

Previously, we idealized discipline, honour, and intellectual and moral seriousness.

Whatever our religion or ideology, we are still trapped by the centuries - old Protestant ethic, which viewed long hours as a badge of moral seriousness.

But if we are to have a lively and fully textured exploration of matters of moral seriousness, both sides of the debate must figure in the calculation.

They do not find much evidence of moral seriousness.

In these intimate cultural matters they were prepared to rely upon the vigilance, moral seriousness and wisdom of their fellow citizens.

It's going to take some moral seriousness and political courage among liberals to put an end to the reign of terror.

Kass also echoes Jonas in his claim that numbering our days is the source of our «creative depth» and moral seriousness; the scarcity of time is what causes us to rank our pursuits.

The moral seriousness of Rowling's stories is most evident in the schemes of the murderous Lord Voldemort and in how these schemes test Harry's character.

We are making our reflections public in the hope that they will help all Americans cut through the static of the sound bites and discuss the linked questions of abortion, human dignity, and American freedom with the moral seriousness demanded of citizens of a democratic republic.

The general conclusion as regards claims to moral seriousness of any original view is assumed to be obvious.

Dr Fox warned that Britain was a nation that was losing its moral seriousness and that this endangered our ability to meet the threats to our peace and security:

As he did with Saving Private Ryan and the war movie, Spielberg injects a genre we take for granted — the disaster epic — with the revivifying power of moral seriousness.

However much I admired its moral seriousness and formal audacity, Funny Games struck me as the work of a presumptuous lecturer who couldn't fathom that the movie's audience might actually be as smart and ethical as its high - minded maker.

Both films make me somewhat uneasy because they are so confident in their mastery and moral seriousness: neither quite feels like just a film, more like the cinematic equivalent of a Nobel - class literary novel.

This silliness in no way takes away from Black Panther «s moral seriousness.

But writer - director Lelouch drenches the story in the breezy romanticism that's always been his trademark, swamping the moral seriousness of the troubling material he's chosen to depict.

It's Got: Liam Neeson and Brian Gleeson effectively reprising, but vastly improving upon, their respective rôles in The Phantom Menace and Troy; Orlando Bloom proving at last that he is more than just a pin - up; spectacular sets and cinematography; and a moral seriousness that, unusually for these times, seeks to improve its viewers, not to mention the world.

Spring saw new releases from genre stars Nathan Englander and Dan Chaon, a duo who despite their different subject matters are united «in their moral seriousness and literary craftsmanship.»

Since pure (that is, secular and unclassical) landscape, like plain still - life or genre painting, was seen (in 17th century Rome) as lacking in moral seriousness, Claude Lorrain introduced classical elements and mythological themes into his compositions, including deities, heroes and saints.

Before he was arrested, he characterized President Obama's impending decision to approve or disapprove the pipeline as a test of the President's moral seriousness: «If he chooses the dirty needle it is game over [for the earth's climate] because it will confirm that Obama was just greenwashing, like the other well - oiled coal - fired politicians with no real intention of solving the addiction,» Hansen said.