Word: moralistic
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...rise of the hero disposed to combat one of his age's great scourges and his undaunted denouement was an unsettling second act, as more liberal believers realized that their shepherd could be autocratic, hardheaded and disapproving. For such disaffected followers, John Paul was not unlike another great Slavic moralist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, lionized while his prophetic voice was raised against the Soviet behemoth and less welcome when he turned it on the victorious West. James Carroll, a former priest who has written frequently on the church and the Pope, says, "Americans clearly loved this man's goodness. But we were...
...Your Son Has Violated Sacred Principles. The fact that Charles and Camilla are proven adulterers is no concern of mine. I'm no moralist, and I'm also a realist. I fully accept and understand that chastity among top-rank British royals is rarer than literacy among American presidents. What troubles me, however, is Prince Charles' flagrant disregard for natural law - the law of the jungle, not the law of heaven - in spurning a very young, attractive woman for a plainer specimen one year his senior, to whom he's stayed faithful, by all appearances, until this very...
...Radical Will, she argued for a more sensuous, less intellectual approach to art. It was an irony lost on no one, except perhaps her, that she made those arguments in paragraphs that were marvels of strenuous intellection. By conviction she was a sensualist, but by nature she was a moralist, and in the work she published in the 1970s and '80s it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor--published in 1978, after she suffered breast cancer and a mastectomy--she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a particular problem of repressed...
...safe-sex programs—those who do have sex after being exposed to an abstinence program are more likely to face pregnancy or an STD because they have no idea how to go about it in a risk-minimizing way. Then again, if you are a right-wing moralist, these people are going to hell for their sins, and whether they die in agony or spread their misery to others is of little concern...
...Sullivan's accusation that Bush is a big-government moralist, spending the American people's money on social issues, should be taken as a compliment instead of a criticism. Our President is doing his best to stand up for and fund what is right because he knows what is best for Americans: establishing the difference between right and wrong. The people have spoken for morality, a safeguard that keeps our country the model of a shining city on a hill. Cherie Johnson Chicago...