Word: moralizes
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While there was some talk by council members about whether the legislation would bind future councils, it was eventually agreed upon by both sides that it would have no legal binding, but instead serve only as a “moral guide...
...breaks him. Hanley’s performance takes Proctor convincingly through all these stages with apt restraint and sufficient fervor. Hanley’s Proctor stands tall among the men of the town, a clear-eyed beacon of sanity and hard-working goodness. Hanley maintains his characters’ moral fiber even as he breaks down and signs his confession...
...symposium on Friday morning featured remarks from Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel—teacher of the popular course, Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—who defended human embryonic stem cell research on moral grounds but warned of its close relationship to human cloning. Sandel, a member of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics, has opposed human cloning...
...this side of Africa," McCall Smith says by way of explaining the books' success. "They just see war, famine and oppression." In his Botswana, people go about their business with good humor and goodwill, earnestly meeting the quotidian challenges common to every country. The books also "make a moral point about the importance of courtesy, of trying to keep traditional ways," says the author. Thus Ramotswe's fiance is always referred to as Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and his place of work by its full name, the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. AIDS, on the other hand, rife in that part...
...first one, or the first half, inspired moral arbiters to tabulate the body count. Sober souls went all tremulous at the prospect of the sequel. Now Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1, which earned $70 million at the domestic box office and $100 million abroad, is joined by Vol. 2--not so much a sequel to the story as the completion of a chapter...