Moralise

France is keen to pull its weight in the fight against tax havens, which president Nicolas Sarkozy has championed as a crucial part of a drive to "moralise" capitalism in the wake of the global crisis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I could, methinks, moralise over the situation of those who have a scarcity of food and fuel! — ❋ Unknown (2009)

He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralise about it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For some parents, there may be feelings of hypocrisy – those who came of age in the cocaine-snorting 80s, or acid house 90s, may be disinclined to moralise. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I would like to see a show thats set during/after a near future appocolypse, one that doesn't try and moralise the audience as if we were idiots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is one section in your letter which almost provokes me to moralise for an hour, but as I am not writing a sermon, I will only say that for any one and, may I say, particularly a young lady to evince perfect happiness in their situation, and be sensible of Heaven's blessings, is a gigantic step gain'd in the school of human life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You could see him as the latest example of a British tradition that stretches back to the founders of the Scouts and the Boys' Brigade, anxious to re-moralise and re-dignify the working class; Campbell scolds teenage addictions to, among other things, X Factor celebrity and online pornography. ❋ Ian Jack (2010)

They moralise to each other about the fecklessness of someone who is enjoying such sport in the middle of the harvest, but then he turns towards them and they see he is "gaunt and lean, with sunken cheeks / And wasted limbs". ❋ John Mullan (2010)

I don't know how these people have the brass-neck to moralise to anyone, or offer themselves for election. toco ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some ten or eleven years ago, when I was compiling a little anthology of Irish fairy and folk tales, somebody asked an eminent authority to advise me.8 He replied that there was little Irish folklore in print, that could be trusted as one could trust the books of Scottish folklore, and went on to moralise over the defects of Irish character. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)

Beyond the rough-and-tumble of the next election, beyond the debates about the inevitable post-election cuts, the really interesting debate in UK politics has been identified: how do we re-moralise the market? ❋ Burke's Corner (2009)

Jim Naughtie gets to pontificate and moralise about how bad other people's behaviour is, and how someone, i.e. the government, needs to do something about it, all the while being paid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For me the key is not to moralise at other people and just do my best, which means little things like what colour my background is is just one of the many things I acknowledge I could do in a greener way, but don't. ❋ Jeff (2009)

First off Labour don't listen, they dictate, the leacture, nanny, nanny, talk down, nag and moralise whilst claiming squillions even down to bathplugs, patios and porn films and tell tradional working class folk that they are little more than nazi scum if they speak out against their views. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2009)

Written by Vincent Cronin in 1960, it's pleasantly dated: Cronin is quite happy to moralise throughout in a way that really isn't fashionable today. ❋ Tim Stretton (2009)

But you know, I suppose, that the same thing we philosophise into an admirable good joke for our neighbours, we moralise into a crime against ourselves. ' ❋ Unknown (2008)

Why should Cameron be 'allowed' to pontificate and moralise? ❋ Unknown (2008)

They are annoying and it's not his place to preach and moralise. ❋ Unknown (2008)