Example sentences for: moralist

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

  • The pragmatist's case against President Clinton--as opposed to the moralist's--is premised on the notion that he's powerless, so disgraced and mistrusted that his presidency is finished politically if not chronologically.

  • Well before then, Johnson's political agenda moves to front and center, best revealed in a lengthy section lauding the minimalist economic and political philosophy of Calvin Coolidge (perhaps his favorite American president) and in another passage concerning Norman Rockwell, whose representations of the "magnanimity of Middle America" send Johnson into raptures: "It is now possible to predict his [Rockwell's] emergence as an Old Master, like the Dutch genre painters, especially Jan Steen, or the English moralist William Hogarth."

  • This sketch of a pensive moralist, the personification of the column, the Uncle Ben of ethics, the Betty Crocker of morals, looks not at all like me.

  • The modern moralist lacks the courage of his convictions.

  • Professional moralist Gertrude Himmelfarb and conservative economist Milton Friedman won $25,000 lifetime-achievement awards.


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