Example sentences for: moralizing

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

  • Others call the film's moralizing overwrought, its plot absurd, and Reeves' performance typically bad.

  • In the end, what Wolf really seems to be saying is that sex is perfectly wholesome--it's our uptightness and moralizing that are corrupt.

  • Klepp, Entertainment Weekly ). Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt calls the report a "nonfiction novel" in the New York Times and finds its closest literary antecedent in the writings of medieval inquisitors, in particular Kramer and Sprengerr's Malleus Maleficarum . Adam Gopnik writes in The New Yorker that Americans overwhelmingly side with Clinton because "a scapegrace hero is always more appealing than a moralizing narrator."

  • He started out psychologizing, and ended up moralizing.

  • Detective Young was able to indulge in his cheap moralizing four centuries later because back then, everything about sugar was suspect--its novelty and potency, its exotic origin in Moorish Spain, its pure pharmocopoeal whiteness.


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