How to Use moralism in a Sentence

moralism

noun

• The candidate's campaign was doomed by an incessant moralism that came across as condescension.
• No doubt, Burns would have found the high-toned moralism of our age amusing.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
• But too often, the Elect have resorted to a smug moralism.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The fevered moralism of that age seems a long way from the paralyzing cynicism of ours.
  — The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
• In a 2010 study , Markus Giesler and colleagues extended this idea of consumer moralism.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2016
• This should not be read, however, as a tiresome kind of kumbaya moralism.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• For the readers of the future, the books will always be there like sticks of dynamite, ready to blow up complacency and moralism.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 23 May 2018
• Beinart is hardly alone in allowing moralism to muddy his thinking about the world.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 9 Dec. 2020
• What emerged instead was a descent from morality to moralism.
  — Brian Stewart, National Review, 5 Oct. 2019
• The pastoral moralism that he was often accused of peddling was actually a clever sleight of hand.
  — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
• Neither is the Offspring, a group formed under the strict moralism of mid-’80s punk, puckishly surviving in a world of Boyzone and Dawson’s Creek.
  — Chris Norris, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2022
• The events of this episode are Greek in tragedy, biblical in moralism, Tarantino-esque in carnage, and Fessy-ian in pettiness.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
• But George Eliot was intensely sincere in both her agnosticism and her moralism.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The over-all air of rigid Christian moralism is strengthened by, as Skimma observes, the political absence of separation of church and state.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
• The fusion of imagery and moralism is so simple-minded, and so brilliant, that there is a kind of excess electrical charge, which is also true of the most effective, viral memes.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• There is a chance that Western democracies will overcome the current waves of right-wing populism and left-wing moralism, but the prospects will be much better if the Elect can learn to temper their puritanical zeal.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• That perspective — in contrast to Drakeo’s millennial madman’s diaries — at the very least suggested a kind of moralism.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2021
• In this worldview, aggressive secularism and moralism go hand in hand with the reckless condemnation of whole groups and peoples.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 23 Sep. 2020
• Both sisters used compelling flourishes, and an undercurrent of clear moralism, to bring history’s heroes and despots to life.
  — Devoney Looser, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• The first precipice: The reduction of politics to moralism with, as a consequence, the dawning of an era of generalized suspicion and the revival of the Law of Suspects—guilty until proven innocent.
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Hive, 19 Apr. 2017
• This conceit must strain Christian charity, let alone more austere Jewish and Muslim moralism.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 28 May 2017
• Since the turn of the millennium, the prosecution of white-collar crime has plummeted—but this should not imply a surge in moralism among our leading capitalists.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• Roosevelt’s personal life and political views were both driven by a kind of righteous Protestant moralism that’s entirely alien to Trump.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• And Deming’s utter ignorance of that social problem looks like an inspired way around the sentimentality and thudding moralism that haunt the genre.
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
• But the risk is that this combination of exacting precision and stark moralism can be subtractive rather than additive.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 26 June 2019
• Undoubtedly an iconoclast, Hefner is rightly remembered as one of the first people to launch a national rebellion against the right-wing moralism of his time.
  — Jessica Valenti, Marie Claire, 28 Sep. 2017
• But for Keynes, this attitude simply reflected smug moralism.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 9 June 2020
• Second, misplaced moralism can provide cover for bad policies.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020
• Eventually, as the over-pressurization of moralism intensifies, the desires of the masses erupt.
  — Andrew Hartz, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• King was imbued with a deep moralism, but Kennedy was ever the pragmatist, always seeking out the optimal political angle.
  — Vincent J. Cannato, WSJ, 26 July 2017

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