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But the vice-president's willingness to step on the toes of allies reflect a world view which, in his words, has little time for "moralisms about 'this country is good', 'this country is bad'".

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But it also hamstrung by its earnestness, with a tone of finger-wagging moralism that is the antithesis of fun.

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Set around a fire pit in a Wyoming backyard, where a late-night celebration among a group of conservative millennials grows combative, “Heroes” makes for a piercing deconstruction of evangelical ideals, right-wing moralism and intergenerational politics.

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Surrealism was a free-flowing network of exchanges, translations, idealizations and misunderstandings — and on this matter, all too rarely in this age of smug cultural moralism, the curators actually treat us like adults.

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It’s conservatives who prefer ideology and moralism to the facts.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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