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morality

[muh-ral-i-tee, maw-] / məˈræl ɪ ti, mɔ- /


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As the chaos unfolds, Greengrass doesn’t pontificate on the morality of these events and, in fact, maintains a rather neutral stance on them for most of the film, withholding judgment.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

A more substantive critique is that by emphasizing Odysseus’ feelings of guilt rather than his simple fealty to the gods, Mr. Nolan imposes an anachronistic Christian morality on the ancient world.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

On every football metric - and, some would say, morality too - this was the right result.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Businesses in Afghanistan's western city of Herat have suffered from a downturn in female customers opting to stay home following a recent crackdown by morality police on women's attire, according to shopkeepers, drivers and residents.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

I stayed wholly off the subject of morality.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

In each case, she examines her life through the lens of fairy tales, demonstrating how we can draw on their moralities and imageries to make sense of ourselves and our relationship to others.

From Washington Post Apr. 11, 2023

But dig a little deeper and the play reveals a society in transition — new moralities wrestling with moribund conventions that refuse to die.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2022

I’d love to hear the atheist perspective on what makes for a good religion, or the reason why different religions support different moralities.

From Salon Mar. 25, 2013

Migrants from southern Italy brought their own moralities and dialects, which Pasolini documented with ethnographic exactitude.

From The Guardian Feb. 22, 2013

Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all the other products of the mind.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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