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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Iris Murdoch
Truth
Truth Is
Moral
Brown
Moralistic
Generic
Like
Well
Spectrum
I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
Ben Miller
Moralistic
Very
Optimistic
Afraid
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
David Hackworth
Good
Game
Care
Politicians
Too
Our
Bay
About
Moralistic
Troops
Generals
Support
Taking
Talk
Majority
How
Fervor
Grunt
I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
Kara Walker
Work
Try
Think
Visual
Moralistic
Tendency
Like
Least
Up
Very
Grew
Avoid
There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot.
Ross Douthat
Conservative
Win
Conservatism
Out
Moralistic
Hypocritical
Voters
Cannot
Might
Populist
Right
Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it's hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and patronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well-meaning.
Tom Shales
Humble
College
Encouragement
Several
Critic
Has-Been
Moralistic
Allegedly
Wrestling
Weight
He
Since
Well-Meaning
Leaving
Issues
Been
Years
Years Ago
Offered
Endlessly
Patronizing
Your
Hard
Receptive
Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.
Michel Faber
Seen
Politicians
Considered
Dream
Moral
Moralistic
Like
Without
Exerting
Cameron
Paternal
Modern
Behaviour
Being
Influence
Fostering
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
Kathy Acker
Love
Free
Society
Other
Easy
Moralistic
More
Like
Surface
Than
Any
Far
Act
Each
Lived
Ever
Actually
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.
David Nicholls
Selfish
Learning
Writing
Sometimes
Men
Liberal
Worry
Bit
About
Moralistic
Something
Write
Self-Absorbed
Badly
Always
Dull
Up
Wonder
Behaved
Should
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Wickedness