Moralising

It's no good indulging ourselves in moralising lectures yet at the same time we cannot just stand by as if it doesn't matter. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Bad-assness slightly curtailed at end of film by a bit of Bond moralising, which is a bit rich given his pedigree.

Trends in UN reform – as indeed in the reshaping of some other global institutions whose moral credibility has come to look rather shopworn in recent years, the WTO and the World Bank for instance – are driving towards the 'moralising' or civilising of the global economy and the world of international negotiation. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The book ends with a prayer, and contains thirty-three chapters, the same number, remarks Cassiodorus (who is addicted to this kind of moralising on numbers) that was reached by the years of the life of Christ on earth. ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)

American approach with Indian "moralising" that irritated Washington to no end. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is natural then that his critics should gleefully latch on to his 'moralising' tone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Undeniably true, though Pells fails to see that the movies' formal modernity is more often than not undercut by a preachy, moralising conventionality wholly at odds with the insurrectionary impulse of the avant garde. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I am pretty much totally with Tim Brayton: the most sickening part of the whole circus is the film's palpable desire to be seen as beyond the pale, just the right thing to shock the squares while all the cool hip kids get to assert their aesthetic superiority over the moralising blue-hairs ... ❋ Intertribal (2010)

Survivors on the BBC is having a go at the moment but its very small minded in its approach to characters and is laden with retarded moralising. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I wrote it at the request of the editor of a Madrid migration journal who asked for an article about migrants who sell sex that would be free of moralising. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However this hasn't stopped me from enjoying said station for the past 20 years except for the moralising claptrap that the off button was designed for and I'm still under forty, just. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nothing, absolutely nothing, is worse than a moralising, semonising hypocrite. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Complacency, faux moralising and partisan shots at Republicans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She seems to be able to get under the skin of these young people who live challenging or tragic lives, without being judgemental or trying to make moralising points, but without glamourising either. ❋ Maxine (2009)

Others, however, eschew this moralising tone and are prepared to be startled. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And there's a sturdy seam of moralising to all this: when Cameron gave his conference speech on government waste in 2008, he said "Britain needs good, honest housekeeping from the Conservatives". ❋ Unknown (2011)

But perhaps the biggest downer must be the fact that yesterday he found himself on the receiving end of moralising lectures from the writer and activist Toby Young, who has never quite faced down allegations of plagiarism levelled by the New York Times and others. ❋ Unknown (2011)