Sentences with phrase «moral tone»

It is they, perhaps more than schoolteachers and parents, who set the intellectual and moral tone of the society and suggest the values that shall govern the conduct of life.

She also told Sky News that she resented his «high moral tone» and that she found «his manner and his approach really disappointing».

Like many religionists of both the left and the right, I believe that religion must play a far more significant role in the life of our culture than it has recently if our democracy is to regain its strong moral tone.

This failing is less a case of indifference or hostility, I think, than it is of moral tone deafness.

The B. Coming attempts to document the emotional upheaval Sigel went through during his trial and conviction, but from the start the sober moral tone and forced gospel choruses make it obvious the MC's mind is on other matters.

Co-creators Lee Daniels and Danny Strong and their crew either can't locate or do not wish to introduce an underlying moral tone to this story.

This epitomises the environmental movement, which is high in moral tone, but lacks intellectual power.

«I'm scared for my future», she shouted across the meeting room at a pitch that matched the shrill moral tone.

A recent survey of Wall Street executives paints a bleak picture of the moral tone of a central part of our economic system.

The American Bar Association's current Model Rules, adopted in 1983, explicitly recognize that the moral tone of the legal profession depends primarily on a great web of informal understandings.

takes on a moral tone that seeks an answer that would show us purpose and justice.

Diana, the sex goddess who provided mythology and set the moral tone to the city, was back — the fertility goddess of the ancient world had seized the imagination of the modern world.

The worst losses are outside of the army and after the war... the total effect of war upon the nation is disastrous; inevitably it lowers the moral tone; it scatters the seeds of moral pestilence; it results in just such disorders and corruptions as those which disfigure the pages of our national history in the decade following the close of the Civil War.»

Often these criticisms assume a moral tone, frequently buttressed by a specific religious or deontological ethic.

Its moral tone meant any dirty little secret was fair game.

Spitzer proposes that we judge him by the moral tone he sets.

Discovered only recently, it playfully works the moral tones, the social perception, the joys in human company, and the focus on the common man and woman Whitman is known for.

Her painting clearly employs imagery from Pieter Bruegal as well as his dark allegorical sensibility and moral tone.

Early Kandinskys inspired some of the freedom of brushwork and the painterliness, and his moral tone fueled the ethical seriousness of purpose.

There is however a moral tone to this.

«There is almost a moral tone now put forward by politicians that everyone should pay their fair share,» he says.

There is always going to be a grey area somewhere, and I think the moral tone that's been set over recent months or years, gives people far more of a steer.