Moralizing

Yet a disaster that happens so similarly to so many seems a hard case for too much moralizing, since at its heart is the one thing that always escapes moralizing, and that is our own mortality.

There has been a steady stream of studies for years over the failure of western development aid, humanitarian liberal intervention, and human rights moralizing elites and their many disasters, and the occasional progress of aid workers.

From the looting, arson and even murder, to the abhorrent and perverse “moralizing” we’re being fed from every leftist Democrat venue, it is inarguable that right and wrong have been totally reversed.

One must remain open and work patiently without moralizing or expecting immediate results.

Champlin, Fronto, 120. Marcus thanks Rusticus for teaching him "not to be led astray into enthusiasm for rhetoric, for writing on speculative themes, for discoursing on moralizing texts.

Harris, Ancient Literacy, p. 3. Although the Church Fathers were well-educated, they regarded Classical literature as dangerous, if valuable, and reconstrued it through moralizing and allegorical readings.

In a subsequent 1753 edition, the Abbé Prévost toned down some scandalous details and injected more moralizing disclaimers.

In Rudyard Kipling 's Puck of Pook's Hill, Puck holds to scorn the moralizing fairies of other Victorian works.

Potter, 335. The fact that the edict began with a long rhetorical preamble betrays at the same time a moralizing stance as well as a weak grasp of economics – perhaps simply the wishful thinking that criminalizing a practice was enough to stop it.

Probably meant to be recited at elite gatherings, they differ from the Greek versions in their long declamatory, narrative accounts of action, their obtrusive moralizing, and their bombastic rhetoric.