Moralistic

But there remains something trashy and fun about the “Saw” entries, even in their bad-TV police procedural stretches and ponderous obeisance to David Fincher’s “Seven,” the granddaddy of faux-moralistic violence.

I can see those influenced by the pseudo woke moralistic doctrines will come up with all sorts of accusations about being backward if you oppose this stuff.

Nadal seems to have to come to terms with it — tennis’s rule book clearly allows it — but still views the trend through a moralistic lens.

She added that as an organisation taking a non-judgemental and non-moralistic position, SACS would withhold any critical opinions on all the key (high risk) affected persons it was looking after.

Some of his tongue-in-cheek collections in recent years included one themed around cigarettes, which he presented as a dig at overly moralistic attitudes.

Yes, and you're probably a smug moralistic asshole if you disagree.

Recently, though, the left has seemingly seized the moral high ground through its unrelenting moralistic crusade against hate and discrimination.

According to Ann-Marie Gallagher, a professor of women's studies and long-time author of many books related to Wicca, "there is no moralistic doctrine or dogma other than the advice offered in the Wiccan Rede..

Both the Leonardo and Michelangelo paintings also disappeared when in the collection of the French Royal Family, and are believed to have been destroyed by more moralistic widows or successors of their owners.

Bryan's moralistic rhetoric and crusade for inflation (to be generated by a money supply based on silver as well as gold) alienated conservatives.

Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centres on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty.

It included many active Protestants, and voiced a moralistic opposition to the Jacksonian Indian removal policies.

Marge is the moralistic force in her family and often provides a grounding voice in the midst of her family's antics by trying to maintain order in the Simpson household.

On the other hand, the intensely moralistic Dutch Protestants insisted their Biblical theology, sincere piety and humble lifestyle was morally superior to the luxurious habits and superficial religiosity of the ecclesiastical nobility.

Paintings often had a moralistic subtext.

Pearson. p. 16. In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from moralistic convictions of pietistic Protestants.

The aunt starts telling a moralistic story, but is unable to satisfy the children's curiosity.

The dissenters gave significant support to moralistic issues, such as temperance and sabbath enforcement.

The moralistic altruist may want to educate or even punish a cheater.

They became divided by the feud between moralistic Jansenists (who denied free will) and orthodox believers.