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Example sentences for: moralism
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After all, we live , as all smokers realize, in an age of goody-goody moralism.
Also on the theme of lefty hypocrisy, a piece derides the "steep decline of liberal moralism."
That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican majority: the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxes in order to fatten the undeserving poor, eager to sell out America's military supremacy out of some guilt-ridden moralism.
The Yankee's secularized Puritanism combines an enthusiasm for social reform--such as abolitionism, Prohibition, women's suffrage, civil rights, eugenics, and the anti-smoking crusade--with an often-priggish moralism and an apocalyptic horror of "corruption."
This, more than anything, makes the public intellectual, black or white, fraudulent, dangerous in both his or her snobbery and his or her political moralism.