Example sentences for: amoral

How can you use “amoral” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • All at once, the movie becomes a "conversion" melodrama--the kind in which an amoral, Bogartish protagonist is unable to ignore injustice and so throws in his lot with the oppressed.

  • What diminished Three Kings for me was that at heart it was a "conversion" melodrama in which a cynical, amoral, Bogartish hero finally can't live with himself in the face of injustice and opts to "do the right thing" at considerable personal cost.

  • These films claimed to warn America about its urban ills, but what Cagney's first breakout hit, The Public Enemy (1931), conveyed was the charisma of the amoral hood.

  • Gloom-and-doomsters, on the other hand, assert that the Net will do just the opposite, reducing genuine participation, threatening personal privacy, and lending itself to new forms of manipulation by amoral operatives and moneyed interests.

  • An utterly amoral yet entirely licit businessman, Cummings sold weapons to Castro, Haiti's Duvaliers, and countless guerillas in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.


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