Sentences with phrase «moral weight»

To start calculating the relative moral weights of political partners and worrying about misperceived moral equivalencies, while inevitable, can not form the basis of evangelical witness and ecclesial policy.

But the promise still carries moral weight.

And a non-incidental number of cars / trains / buildings / cities / planets will be made to explode ostentatiously, though with as little moral weight as can plausibly be arranged.

National sovereignty has no intrinsic moral weight.»

Hitchens privileges big countries over small ones, and he assumes that all big countries have equal moral weight.

Commentators also often lump all sources of crop demand together without recognizing their different moral weights and potential for control.

This status - health relationship adds moral weight to current debates about the increasing inequality in industrialized societies.

As the body count gets higher, and the housemates begin to question their high - and - mighty purposes, the movie stumbles under its sophomoric moral weight.

Sepideh is a well - meaning character but every decision she makes somehow seems to make things worse, and Farahani is particularly brilliant in the film's gripping climactic scenes, when the full moral weight of the drama is resting on her shoulders.

Actors Karimah Westbrook, Leith M. Burke and young Tony Espinosa are simply meant to stoically endure: it's a mute moral weight for this limp satire.

The gleeful perversity of his previous two features, 2008's Tony Manero and 2010's Post Mortem, is back in his new film, and so is a welcome maturity to his misanthropy that lends an unexpected moral weight to the coal - black comedy.

Hitmen may be mournful or charismatic, but they lack moral weight.

Operating between these divergent modes — and between ever - negotiated social contexts — psychological meaning and moral weight rise and fall away from each scene and its meticulous surface.

The pointlessness of The Cookout exudes a modicum of charm, but the simple - minded mess still lacks the wit and moral weight of an episode of Family Matters.

They always stress the word «public,» for that adjective is believed to carry moral weight and political suasion.

Sensing that this assertion carried little moral weight, Dayan then argued that while Israel was willing to accept partition in 1948, and at that time accepted the Palestinian's moral claim to some of the land, the Palestinians then lost this claim by engaging in violence.

«Constitutive attachments» are seen by Sandel as giving agency «moral weight»; the self is «encumbered» with an identity that because of its density, complexity, and rootedness is only partially open to revision.

As the moral weight falls on the secular side, we need the old voices to shift the balance.

We understand very little about the future, about the relation of human life to the rest of existence, and about the moral weight of unbelief, as viewed in the light of eternity.

It creates an distinct feeling of unease - but the moral weight of the climate change lobby makes it politically palatable to almost everyone.

Yet at every twist, it is saved by the moral weight of the tale, the gorgeous, haunted vistas in Eric Maddison's cinematography and the solidly credible, equally haunted acting.

The sequence is harrowing, as it should be, serious about the moral weight of the crime.

More than any other film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther addresses the world today in ways that, while not distracting from the action and adventure, fills the movie with deeper meaning and moral weight.

Gringo is a Coen Brothers movie for when you don't want to be bothered with the moral weight of an actual Coen Brothers movie.

Of course, his latest project is no exception, and finds the actor not only carrying the moral weight of the film, but also more than holding his own with some of the best actors in the business, including his director, Robert Redford.

For the most part, shooting games have grappled with their moral weight either by embracing the thrill of mindless abandon or adopting an awkward self - awareness, attempting to wrap more «sophisticated» stories around the mechanic of killing sprees, and draping the unwieldy mannequin of mass murder with a more flattering (or «meaningful») silhouette.

Skyrim lets you do whatever you want, but the presentation is hollow, my avatar in that game is not a person (in say the way Commander Shepard and Hawke are) and my actions good or bad carry no moral weight.

Beckwith and Roelstraete's show has made it difficult to read mainstream 1960s modernism — with its assertions of the moral weight of formal problems — in quite the same way, knowing that artists such as these, working in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, were taking on big questions with a breathtaking blend of tradition and originality.