The moralistic approach feels like an invitation to crony capitalism.
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Don't worry; I'm not getting all moralistic on you here.
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It's best not to be moralistic about these things, though.
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But not everyone is a fan of its moralistic themes.
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"What we're trying to avoid is being moralistic," Veneman said.
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Moralistic Sweden has tough laws against even small quantities of drugs.
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It was full of snobs, and worse, Randazza found, moralistic assholes.
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"Communities and some users accept this moralistic framing too," Petre says.
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Some of her new work was criticized as unsubtle or moralistic.
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Trump's grotesqueries have stirred up a feminist reaction that's more moralistic and less gamely sex-positive than the Clinton-justifying variety, and there's no necessary reason why its moralistic gaze can't extend to our porn addiction.
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But the politics are not as clear-cut as the moralistic language.
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But the film's infectious and understated levity sidesteps parable's moralistic heavy-handedness.
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Too many of his stories are paternalistic, moralistic paeans to white heteronormativity.
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The world could use a less moralistic, more nuanced defense of nationalism.
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Sanders came across as more unwavering and moralistic, but also less specific.
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The letter used moralistic language and provided no specific evidence for its assertions.
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"It is too easy," he admits, "to be moralistic about the market" (207).
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He had death squads there and they're very religious, it was very moralistic.
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Jackson's wife was being—as you'd say—'dissed', in a super-moralistic way.
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He was still stiff, but also more moralistic, courageous and, yes, sometimes funny.
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In both sound and trot all the songs seem strictly moralistic and hortatory.
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Those victims deserve care as well, and not churlish, moralistic, "means-tested" care.
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Despite backlash about the program's moralistic focus on abstinence, it was an unprecedented success.
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Moreover, his distaste for inflation seems rooted in a surprisingly moralistic view of the economy.
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The police were notoriously corrupt, and readers' appetites for bloody, moralistic crime stories were insatiable.
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If all we needed were condoms and moralistic judgment, we would've ended HIV decades ago.
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Coppola's embattled war epic takes Joseph Conrad's moralistic fable and gives it depth and resonance.
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" Scott-Dixon agrees: "With the concept of clean eating, there's so many moralistic, judgmental associations.
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" Common Dreams' Adam Johnson lamented that Moulitsas's "moralistic voter-shaming is neither useful nor compassionate.
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Pence wasn't always the rigidly moralistic and confident conservative evangelical he professes to be today.
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A few years ago he adapted Dickens's moralistic ghost story "A Christmas Carol" for the stage.
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"I think certainly [the show] tries to be never judgmental or moralistic," Owen said at TCA.
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It adopts his lone-wolf moralistic tone to suggest that he would have beaten Donald Trump.
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It's a faux-moralistic beast the Olympic movement itself can singularly lay claim to creating and cultivating.
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Not in a moralistic sense, but to feel that you're a part of something larger than yourself.
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The German economic view, analysts say, is dominated by moralistic judgments and a grave fear of inflation.
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" Instead, Mazarr credits them with acting in response to a "moralistic sense of doing the right thing.
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But in liberating the sport from its monochromatic, moralistic past, you became a captive of your legacy.
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Let me ask a question about the trip wire approach versus the impressionistic/moralistic approach to company breakups.
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The grand-daddy of the ruckuses involves Alabama's grandfatherly governor, Robert Bentley, a hitherto moralistic 73-year-old.
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It's a highly charged, moralistic assertion, which just does not map onto any sane person's thinking about this.
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The problem is that the moralistic stigmatization is still fairly entrenched in how the US thinks about addiction.
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A moralistic inclination also sets much of the tone for the biographical interplay of Mulholland, Griffith and McPherson.
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The press has become more moralistic than in previous decades, and social media is a jittery engine for outrage.
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These women were idealistic, moralistic and opposed to much of what they saw around them: corruption, hypocrisy and disappointment.
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She makes a convincing case that, despite our society's moralistic view of work, burnout is not the worker's fault.
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"Essentially my art is comic — a serious, absurd comedy … irreverent … erotical … moralistic," an entry from the early 1960s reads.
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To his critics, Mr. Starr was a moralistic, sex-obsessed Inspector Javert persecuting a president out of ideological animus.
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The opening scene is a deliberately moralistic prelude that soon opens into a riveting, thought-provoking piece of theater.
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In The Happening, which supposedly inspired the book upon which Bird Box is based, the attack has a moralistic undertone.
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" In a post published on Common Dreams, Adam Johnson lamented that Moulitsas's "moralistic voter-shaming is neither useful nor compassionate.
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It turns out there is a clear takeaway from this moralistic movie: Leave it to adults to miss the point.
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Moralistic scolding did not convince Republican women to vote against Trump in 2016 and seems unlikely to do so again.
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When you deploy moralistic rhetoric in public discourse, you close down the possibility of dialogue, which can only stall progress.
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If you look at the words we use to describe food, we talk about it in a very moralistic way.
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Our ultra-moralistic take on the game can, rather haughtily, be held up as the 'right' way to do things.
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Accessible and nonjudgmental, non-meat junk may be the most efficient way to untether vegan food from its moralistic baggage.
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He was not antidrug in a moralistic way, but alarmed by the deforestation caused by coca cultivation, his daughter said.
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That Kissinger was willing to do this in ways that scandalized moralistic American liberals is more than fine by Kaplan.
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He sees "Wessis" — the people who live there — as having been indoctrinated into a form of hyper-moralistic mass thinking.
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In the coming months, with an election approaching, we can expect to hear all kinds of intense and moralistic rhetoric.
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Consider common appeals to allyship and altruism; such locutions convey a sort of optional quality, a moralistic tone, and unreliable trendiness.
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Meanwhile the Second Great Awakening grew larger, more expansive, its moralistic message leaking out of the churches and into the mainstream.
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It'd also allow doctors to cite their "personal, moralistic, or religious beliefs" to refuse to perform a vasectomy or prescribe Viagra.
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We are particularly and paradoxically moralistic about the sexual practices of women and girls: female "sexiness" is simultaneously celebrated and condemned.
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The sad irony is that it is liberals who are running the sanctimonious and moralistic crusades to end bullying in America.
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" She warns that "nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning—that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.
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Instead, too many health care professionals, including Dr. Tom Price, the health and human services secretary, promote moralistic abstinence-based approaches.
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Mr. Smith finds that what he terms "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism" has displaced authentic Christianity as the true religion of American Christians.
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Here was the First Amendment Randazza — and other liberals — wanted to protect: a law that safeguarded subversive speech from powerful moralistic assholes.
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In the Victorian era, some critics worried that moralistic novels would channel people's sympathy into books instead of out into the world.
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No—it's empty and candid; black and sad, erotic in its foundations and moralistic in its debates contaminated by articulations and caskets.
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There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot.
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A season 6 trailer shows her out of her cell and in a face-off with her cousin Lancel, now a moralistic Sparrow.
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It has long been moralistic: in 2014 it banned "The Wolf of Wall Street" from distribution because of its "extreme scenes of nudity".
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It is also curiously moralistic with its implicit assumption that we have a duty to ourselves to keep our carcass in good shape.
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Any moralistic condemnation of Trump is incomplete without acknowledging the institutions (notably the media) that both created him and allowed him to thrive.
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A moralistic streak, not to mention a prurient one, is buried in the DNA of cheap horror that is part of this movie.
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That allows you to have this interesting balance: searching for expression in a human way, as opposed to following some other moralistic mandate.
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He had a moralistic streak, striking a congressman off a Camp David invitation list because he was living with a woman outside marriage.
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Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is a pseudoreligion that jettisons the doctrines of historical biblical Christianity and replaces them with feel-good, vaguely spiritual nostrums.
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Rex Tillerson may have a realist streak and Nikki Haley a moralistic style, but neither one has been part of these debates before.
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The moralistic tone of the denunciations is so far from the libertine and libertarian attitudes that are usually expressed in the art world.
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We are in a world where moralistic mobs gather on social media and rise like a storm, falling upon newsrooms in an overwhelming blow.
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The play could easily become moralistic, but instead, it allows for the kind of fruitful, open-ended conversation that more theater should aspire to.
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Today his security-first approach to migration irks other Italian ministers who hew to what an EU official calls "the moralistic school of policy".
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Our approach, which we export to the rest of the world, is very moralistic and it's very binary — either you're in or you're out.
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Luke Skywalker's arc in The Last Jedi is a perfect example: In the original trilogy he was moralistic, idealistic, and romanticizing the Jedi Order.
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Even slasher films with no ties to religion often dabble in moralistic tropes against drugs, premarital sex, or doing anything the least bit salacious.
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The standards in this field are 12-step programs, which combine spiritual and moralistic ideals into a support group for people suffering from addiction.
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Hypothetical 2020 challenger Ben Sasse is known for his brand of adult, moralistic conservatism, but even he would get dragged into the Trumpian muck.
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Instead, Pinker argued, I think we're seeing a somewhat different psychological phenomenon: dynamically sorting ourselves into coalitions defined by moralistic condemnation of designated enemies.
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EVE: In these divisive times, the increasingly moralistic left has adopted this idea that those who don't agree with you politically are the enemy.
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Part of the current controversy over Hill is generational, with a younger cohort deeming her moralistic — "judge-y," as Morgan's millennial goddaughter puts it.
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Mr. O'Dea said the decision to renew the contract was made with "income revenue" in mind and not from a "moralistic" point of view.
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I thought he might say something about who had a more moralistic view of weight, or who was more trusting of the medical system.
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Are we not, in fact, being tediously and modishly moralistic, and in fact doing precisely what we might have condemned 19th-century critics for doing?
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An unusually moralistic, as opposed to calculating or expedient, case for sticking by Mr Trump was made by Eric Metaxas, a high-selling religious author.
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As she aged, her poems became more moralistic, and Moore herself became a literary celebrity, seen about town in her cape and her tricorn hat.
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The filmmakers, who made "Leviathan," the striking 2012 immersion into commercial fishing, seem to be arguing that Sagawa needs to be understood beyond moralistic preconceptions.
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We tend to view it in black-and-white, almost moralistic terms: Anyone who succumbs to temptation, in whatever form, clearly must be weak willed.
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With regard to the American 21st century, Gaddis's favorite novelists and philosophers perhaps argue against both optional intercessions abroad and moralistic lead-from-behind recessionals.
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There are better ways to arrive at cultural equity than policing art production and resorting to moralistic pieties in order to intimidate individuals into silence.
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The hotel owner said Abiy had lectured the business leaders at the dinner with a "moralistic" tone for buying foreign cars during a foreign exchange shortage.
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Such figures tend to say more about sentiment than action: it is easy to sound moralistic when you are not going to be held to account.
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"How the hell did things get this way?" she asks in a chapter cocking an eyebrow at the especially moralistic components of the contemporary "wellness" movement.
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We need to be wary of moralistic sex negativity—the issue is not that it's bad because it's distasteful, but that it's bad because it's harmful.
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This de facto series of moralistic codes is basically the industry's go-to method of policing itself in the hopes of not rocking too many boats.
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They argued that trading sexual services for money could be sexually liberating because it undermined moralistic views on sex and institutions such as heteronormativity and monogamy.
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If Trump's history paved the way for moralistic media coverage of those kinds of affairs, he seems now to be neutralizing these stories as a force.
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Do you wonder to yourself, "Can he really be saying that?" or wish he could find a less, shall we say, "moralistic" way to put it?
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While many of the exhibition's lagging and coincident indicators seek to prick the viewer's conscience, the works that resemble leading indicators are rarely accusatory or moralistic.
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In other words, even when Black Mirror is moralistic about its fictional conceits, it can't help but find glee in them — often at its own expense.
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The original Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling in 1959, featuring a series of standalone, moralistic episodes that ranged from science fiction to suspense to horror.
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Rather than satire, it feels more like an earnest love letter to a beloved, influential franchise, but without some of the moralistic bumpers that Gene Roddenberry installed.
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Created by Rod Sterling, the original show premiered on CBS in 1959, telling a series of moralistic, self-contained science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories each week.
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Prior to seeing Ketamine: The Musical, I thought it would be a serious, moralistic affair about the dangers of an increasingly popular drug in the rave scene.
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In composing this moralistic fable, Mr. Capra and his writers have tossed in a great abundance of colloquial incidents and emotional tangles of a mistful, humorous sort.
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Their message was inchoate but fueled by firsthand experience of material change rather than speculative, moralistic doomsaying or elite hand-wringing about what we might have lost.
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A monastery on the planet siphons off military deserters who are stuck in moralistic quandaries, questioning the role the military plays in expanding humanity's footprint in the galaxy.
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Gorey's mock-moralistic abecedarium plays the deaths of little innocents for laughs ("A is for Amy who fell down the stairs/ B is for Basil assaulted by bears …").
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Usually when you hear "drone" and "airplane" in the same sentence, what comes next is a moralistic tale about how irresponsible drone pilots pose serious threats to airlines.
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Between those two, though, Manifest has managed to take the worst of both worlds: the moralistic undertone of This Is Us paired with the utter nonsense of Lost.
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About an hour and a half into his Broadway performance on Tuesday night, Michael Moore paused his rumpled, moralistic ire to offer the audience an Oprah-style surprise.
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But this is not a moralistic fable about the lavish waste of funds and the duty of helping poor children instead of partying in a giant baby costume.
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But what is extraordinary is the extent to which the moralistic fire fell on her while the mountain of accusations against Donald Trump didn't seem to make a dent.
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He's a very American kind of populist whose specific policy proposals are best understood as props in a larger moralistic narrative rather than well-designed cures for specific ills.
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It concerned the moralistic efforts to close down a real-life Texas brothel known as the Chicken Ranch (because some customers paid in chickens) that had operated for years.
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As amusing as these interludes are, they read as attempts to force an exaggerated sense of mystery into an ultimately simple and moralistic tale about the futility of vengeance.
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A day in the city of light was seen from their contrasting perspectives, which played a bit like a "sophisticated" French romance (hers) and a moralistic American dramedy (his).
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Bad people perish in an over-determined, moralistic manner—a poetic death appropriate to how they sinned—while good people survive to establish a better, more perfect, divinely sanctioned society.
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Trump is distinct from his predecessors not because his foreign policy is a radical departure, but because he is carrying out similar policies without the moralistic righteousness of his predecessors.
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A street preacher, perhaps the most minor of characters in Nathaniel Rich's ambitious and metaphorically dense third novel, "King Zeno," hangs moralistic signs on the back of his church wagon.
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" He struck a moralistic tone in criticizing Ms. Clifford for working in porn, and when her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, pushed back, Mr. Giuliani said: "I don't get involved with pimps.
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There is also a sort of social credit that comes with being seen as a moralistic punisher; we want to show off our goodness to others, to signal our virtue.
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Cook has frequently taken a moralistic tone in acceptance speeches, preaching about the importance of privacy, a feature Apple emphasizes in its own products and often criticizes peers for lacking.
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Remember that comic book superhero sagas, like folktales and religious parables, are fundamentally moralistic: They pit Good in the fight against Evil, and in the US that story never gets old.
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Today we are seeing the collapse of the dominant regime that Trow originally observed emerging, mass-media television, which had previously replaced the moralistic mid-century novels of New England WASPs.
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His upending of a genre of painting usually replete with heroism or moralistic messages adds a layer of art-historical intrigue, a reimagining of what history painting is in this moment.
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After all, the leftist who abused his or her position or was hired under false pretenses is too important to subject to the same moralistic, tearful anger reserved for everyone else.
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But the moral of this story about being less moralistic is this: If you are divided and weak, it doesn't make sense to put on a strongman act in foreign policy.
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Spencer Cox told Vox recently that a transformation away from the traditionally pro-immigration, free trade, small-government, and moralistic conservative mentality faces a tougher road in the majority Mormon state.
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These incidents occur daily online, where edgy jokes gone wrong, hunting pictures or being the bad guy in a viral video can put you in the crosshairs of a moralistic mob.
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The Protestant north had a rigid and moralistic attitude towards debt while the Catholic south, with its culture of confession and absolution, took a more happy-go-lucky view, he once said.
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One of Sanders's strengths as a politician is that he tends to think in a less literal, more moralistic, less policy-oriented way than the typical member of the Democratic Party establishment.
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In the end, the sales ban is "not moralistic" or about trying to "constrain people," she said; it's really just that a health institution should not be profiting by selling unhealthy beverages.
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It's not just an American problem: A recent global study reported that teens around the world find sex ed is delivered in awkward, technical and moralistic ways, with scant discussion of consent.
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It invites a moralistic misreading of Tough's otherwise constructive contribution to the conversation, implying that lack of success is simply a consequence of a character flaw, of just not trying hard enough.
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His focus was on so-called "evidence-based treatment," in which professionals took a scientific approach to treatment in contrast to the punitive and moralistic approach that prevailed in the early days.
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The vacillation between isolationism and moralistic interventionism is a traditional hallmark of American foreign policy, but usually one or the other is characteristic of an administration – not both within the first 100 days.
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Huntington also notes that "young people have a relatively high group propensity toward moralistic behavior," which means that a relatively high percentage of young people in society contributes to moments of creedal passion.
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Starting with an idealistic cop's laborious reconstruction of shredded financial documents, it aspires to some of the quotidian procedural force of "The Wire," but Mr. Padilha's moralistic and melodramatic instincts quickly assert themselves.
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At this point, Facebook can no longer deny the sore need for an ethical and moralistic compass somewhere within its advertising business; the company's algorithms and its racist and anti-semitic controversies are linked.
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What I want to start to explore here is how punitive and moralistic treatment that claims to view addiction as a disease does not really do so and instead bolsters the law enforcement approach.
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Vir became a rare example of a background character who grows in importance over the course of the story, whose seemingly naïve moralistic qualities become the most important guide for the characters around him.
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Our talk covered the philosophical, including discussing the moralistic language that accompanies a lot of financial advice, as well as the nuts and bolts of personal finance, like health-care costs and credit scores.
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They argued that Democrats had set up a moralistic circular firing squad instead of aiming their sights at Republicans accused of more egregious sexual misconduct, from President Trump to Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
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Institutions like the one in Tuam were created nearly a century ago to rehabilitate "fallen" women and their offspring, with management given to the Catholic Church, whose moralistic teachings dictated much of Irish life.
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There are tons of invisible forces working against us, and the end result is that being good or bad at money is sometimes viewed in moralistic terms or as a measure of someone's character.
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Film personalities such as Farah Khan, Vidya Balan, Rishi Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Arshad Warsi and Shahid Kapoor also criticised the moralistic undertones of the interview, while praising the actress for her intelligent and thoughtful responses.
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But I held out hope that Negan would bring back the gritty moralistic explorations TWD had pulled off so well with the Terminus storyline, and then again with Rick and crew's initial arrival in Alexandria.
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"The wealthy people who I've studied are really concerned with the moral implications of privilege, and I think a lot of the popular culture representations of wealthy people are also really moralistic," Sherman told me.
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Guadagnino saw his heroine as a self-possessed, erotically confident young woman, yet the producers sought a moralistic ending in which she recognizes the error of her ways—"A girl who finds redemption," he says.
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"Opposition to sex work comes from a deeply moralistic and religious place," says RJ Thompson, director of the Sex Workers Project in New York, a human rights lawyer and a long time sex worker himself.
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And his version of moralistic conservatism — Prager attended yeshiva, lectures on Judeo-Christian values, and opposes same-sex marriage — doesn't seem like a natural fit for a generation raised on porn, video games, and social media.
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Members of Duvdevan do not recount past missions––those "have to remain dark," Raz said––but they speak in highly moralistic terms about the unit, how they were selected for their sense of probity and poise.
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However, even the private bread lines carried a distinct whiff of the moralistic English poor laws: to ensure that only the most desperate benefited, officials generally distributed these meager meals in the middle of the night.
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Basically, Vote Proudly is setting out to use tactical voting to squeeze out the DUP and a veto loophole that the party's used for years to boost moralistic conservatism—but more on those specifics in a bit.
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In the Six Villages, the Altari were moralistic scolds, while the Kartami were merely a distant threat that parents used to scare their children: Eat your greens, or the Kartami will steal your songbirds while you sleep.
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A household name in the 1990s, he was reviled by critics as a moralistic, sex-obsessed prosecutor and admired by others as an upright truth-seeker pursuing a lying, philandering president who had dishonored the Oval Office.
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Critics point out that the big tech companies like to think of themselves as socially progressive, adopting moralistic mission statements that often involve changing the world — with the unspoken promise that it will be for the better.
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Please. You are granting way too much historical importance to the self-implosion of a political movement that rose to power over the past 30 years on a platform of moralistic piety, militarism, anti-abortion, and xenophobia.
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Cheerful and fast-moving, the show is Netflix's best approximation of Disney Channel's teen TV. The plots are ever-so-slightly moralistic, the smiles are wide, and the young actors are brimming over with new-to-Hollywood charisma.
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In addition to the pregnant Sandra Bullock, you have a lady who sounds old, a war veteran who's very moralistic and rational, a pregnant woman who cries a bunch, the guy who keeps saying "fuck," and John Malkovich.
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He was fearsome yet gentle, an anti-communist stalwart who became the standard-bearer for American liberals, and a moralistic, devout Catholic who covered up his brother's affairs (and, some suspect, his own) and embraced dirty political fights.
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"The Libertine" is by turns prurient and moralistic, as one might expect of an account of the man whose poem "Signor Dildo" (no, I'm not joking) gives, ahem, rise to some boisterous stage business in the second act.
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Amazon doesn't particularly seem to love this niche, as the company has tried to squash erotic writers several times—in 2013, after a moralistic backlash against erotic works, it quietly pulled hundreds of erotica titles from its shelves.
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While other fast-fashion brands understood that transparency, sustainability, and good ethics are paramount to holding onto an adulting consumer base (and attracting the arguably more moralistic Gen Z), Forever 21 has not committed to any such thing.
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Created in 1959 by Rod Sterling, the original Twilight Zone has endured as a classic science fiction anthology series, with each science fiction, fantasy, or horror episode playing out a self-contained, moralistic story, often with a memorable twist.
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Though it is about a marginalized group, it does not become a savior narrative that "gives voice to the voiceless," nor a trite "imagine yourself in their shoes" moralistic spiel, or a "touch them, they're just like us" embarrassment.
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Dinosaurs is unlike any sitcom America has produced: an anti-capitalist, moralistic puppet show about a family of dinosaurs living on a swampland owned by the FruitCO corporation (a division of WeSaySo enterprises), run by a Trump-esque CEO.
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Without being moralistic about it, I'm for freedom of speech and pornography comes under that heading, but there's a downside to it, too, obviously, because misogyny is so pervasive in our society right now—more so than ever I think.
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"I'm sure you didn't get yours the right way because you don't have much fans," someone wrote back once, which is a pretty common theme among the messages, although the moralistic resentment over "the right way" added a unique touch.
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Morgan has studied centuries of paintings and literature that use religious fear to shape societal behavior, and while he agrees that there is often a moralistic finger-wagging to horror films, he doesn't believe that they qualify as Christian propaganda.
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But the video series's 13 moralistic tales appear to be a mythmaking exercise designed to invite the public to associate Najib the prime minister with Najib the boy and make us feel like the country's leader is one of us.
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Stringer predicts that "increases in legalization are going to lead to more media attention about the responsible use of marijuana" in the near future—but the ill-informed and fear-based moralistic ads of the past are unlikely to vanish completely.
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"One thing the right wing has done pretty effectively in the last few years is, they've managed to frame the discussion as a kind of puritan, moralistic, sermonizing left versus a kind of edgy, rebellious, punk-rock right," says 30-year-old Wynn.
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Moralistic reactions to suspected stunt weddings, which seem to coalesce at moments when the entertainment industry and cultural mores are dramatically changing, tell us as much about ourselves as they do about the celebrities — usually women — who become the objects of public outrage.
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But beyond the image problem for Sanders that field staff are hoping to exploit in order to get themselves a raise, it's a case study in the power and the limits of Sanders's less wonky, more moralistic version of left-wing politics.
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Fiske and Rai sometimes write as if the paradigm of moralistic violence were the final scene of the movie in which our hero blows away the terrorist or the serial killer or the rapist—a deeply satisfying act that has everyone cheering.
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There's his importance within the franchise itself, where his cool logic provided a crucial counterpoint to Kirk, the dashing captain, and McCoy, the moralistic doctor — and where his rare displays of emotion gave the show and films some of their most memorable moments.
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Indeed in the 1980s and again in the 1990s you would find moralistic feminists — of all different sorts, from Andrea Dworkin to Tipper Gore — allying with social conservatives over pornography, misogynistic song lyrics, and other cultural effluvia that violated both of their ideals.
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Moralistic therapeutic deism is a fairly new sociological term used to describe the spiritual sensibilities of people who believe that there's a god, sort of, and that the point of this nebulous supernatural force is to encourage people to better themselves morally and get along with others.
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It's a recipe for success: Take Batman's moralistic world and imbue it with the happy-go-lazy characters of Pawnee, IN. The setting is Charm City, a Gotham City wannabe, where superheroes named things like Crimson Fox and Jack-O-Lantern regularly save the town from terror.
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It is exactly what most studio comedies have taught us to expect from a night out at the movies: a few laughs, a few lightly moralistic slogans, nothing terribly offensive, and, ultimately, a forgettable film that capitalizes on a hit we half-remember from years ago.
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Over the last decade, as Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal each required European help to avoid default, Germany took the crisis as a moment for moralistic lecturing about the supposedly profligate ways of its southern neighbors (frequently omitting how much of their debts were owed to German banks).
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We sort of in our moralistic world want to say one plus one always equals two, but what we look for in something else is the acknowledgement that sometimes one and one equals three in our faith, in our art, in our whatever it is that compels us, love.
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All we really learn from Shafer's review is, alas, as revealing as if he were a specimen under the motel owner Gerald Foos's roof: He appears to be a man with a moralistic hammer who sees only nails while the astonishing, amoral mess that is our humanity passes him by.
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The image of the tortured millennial who hates parties and hookups yet partakes because everyone else does, the old soul, surrounded by shallowness, secretly craving something real — this amounts to a moralistic, hypocritical condemnation of hedonism, a youth-specific version of what Drake and the Weeknd have made careers of.
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With so many people dying from drug overdoses — tens of thousands a year — and hundreds of thousands more expected to die in the next decade, America is finally considering how its response to addiction can be better rooted in science instead of the moralistic stigmatization that's existed for so long.
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Echoing Anti-Oedipus, the seminal 1972 text by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, while also mindful of the more secretive, expressive forms of communication specific to psychoanalysis, desire presents itself in her work as a conatus everywhere falsified by the logic of capital, and the moralistic imperative of drudgery it presupposes.
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His two main characters are complex and compelling — Chief Joseph, a thoughtful, powerful speaker who spent years trying to find a way for his people to live alongside American settlers, and General O. O. Howard, a moralistic liberal Army general whose fate it was to crush Joseph's small Nez Percé tribe.
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To reconcile the horror of the robbery with the intimate family drama of Keeping up with the Kardashians, the show created a neat, moralistic resolution: The robbery was traumatic, but in the end, family is the most important thing, and the Kardashian clan can get through anything as long as they're together.
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Instead of such a tempering of both worldviews, though, we seem to be headed in the opposite direction — toward a world where the parties are polarized by gender and the two moralistic programs, feminist and conservative, are therefore seen as just the expression of each sex's interests as pitted against the other.
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"Some of the power of this tour's narrative arc is that you start in a place right before the Civil War, which is a heavily moralistic period, and then even when we as a society know about germs and microorganisms and the agents of disease causation, the moral element never goes away," Favaloro said.
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Sadly, it looks as though Daryl got his fill of The Kingdom's complicated web of politics after just a day behind its walls, and after getting into a moralistic debate with Morgan (the guy just brings it out in people, I guess) and getting some quality time with Shiva, he packed his bags and set off for Hilltop.
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The legislation itself is clearly meant to put some policy meat on the bones of that moralistic point, but in addition to being poorly designed, it also targets a much larger universe of companies than just Amazon; there are more than 18,000 firms with 500-plus employees, and they collectively employ about half of all US workers.
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Instead of a world where old-fashioned religious Puritans are trying to reinstate Leviticus, we have a world where the Puritans' real cultural heirs, the moralistic post-Protestants of academe, are trying to impose a different, consent-based set of sexual regulations — while a laddish, bro-ish and, yes, Trump-ish bachelor culture laughs their prudery to scorn.
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Robert Kurzban, the author of "The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind," argues that domestic politics have taken on a moralistic, judgmental cast: There is a rise in "purity tests" for politicians, such that if they do not adopt the line of the party on core issues — especially those to do with identity politics — they are subject to round condemnation.
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So while we wait to see what becomes of Alabama Senate candidate and professional Christian Roy Moore, who is credibly alleged to have spent his thirties pursuing high school girls with the "I get older, they stay the same age" gusto of Matthew McConaughey's character in "Dazed and Confused," it's worth doing a quick typology of the predators that flourish among the godly and moralistic and traditional.
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Here's a taste of a savage one sent from a moralistic scribe: On each Sunday morning to church you repair, And turn up your nose with a sanctified air, But see you at home what a different sight, As you read nasty books and drink gin half the night, While you ne'er give poor people enough for a dinner, You hypocritical wicked old Sinner.
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No, the real tyrant these days, in a flip of Atwood's dystopian vision, is secular feminism: Instead of a world where old-fashioned religious Puritans are trying to reinstate Leviticus, we have a world where the Puritans' real cultural heirs, the moralistic post-Protestants of academe, are trying to impose a different, consent-based set of sexual regulations—while a laddish, bro-ish and, yes, Trump-ish bachelor culture laughs their prudery to scorn.
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Judd Apatow was not involved with this film in any formal capacity (though his frequent collaborators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produced the film, and Mann, who is married to Apatow, has also been in a number of his movies), but the strain of film comedy he birthed with The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up pairs raunch with sentimentality to serve up surprisingly moralistic messages — and that's just what Blockers does.
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The extent to which the neocons and their moralistic, crusading Wilsonian mission overtook the Republican foreign policy establishment, beginning in the 1970s, was so nearly complete that it can be hard to remember that a much different sensibility had previously governed the party, one reminiscent of Mr. Trump's own positions: wariness about foreign intervention, championing of protectionist trade policies, a belief in the exercise of unilateral military power and a suspicion of global elites and institutions.
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And any mystification or bafflement or anger that you feel about someone else's certainty — how it simply must be cynical, manufactured, malign — should be tempered by a recognition that your own certainty might have to be revised 20 years from now, that how you read the evidence in the heat of a polarized moment might not be the only way to read it, and that not every historical controversy or scandal gets settled cleanly or wrapped up in a neat moralistic bow.
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Yet throughout his long career as a poet, Hartley continued to use end, internal, and slant rhyme, to employ some regular rhythms, and to imbue his writing with aphoristic and even moralistic intent: The eagle wants no friends, employs his thoughts to other ends– he has his circles to inscribe twelve thousand feet from where the fishes comb the sea, he finds his solace in unscathed immensity, where eagles think, there is no need of being lonesome– In isolation is a deep revealing sense of home.
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Which is the other bizarre thing about Spadaro and Figueroa's broad brush: As the American Catholic writer Patrick Smith points out, by warning against a Catholicism that takes political sides or indulges in moralistic rhetoric or otherwise declaims on "who is right and who is wrong" in contemporary debates, the pope's men are effectively condemning not only American conservative Catholics but also the pope's own writings on poverty and environmentalism, his support for grass-roots "popular movements" in the developing world and his stress on the organic link between family, society, religion and the state.
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