Word: moralizes
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...worst fears about our new president have not been realized. Bush should, as I am sure all would agree, be judged as harshly as any other president. In the wake of the apparent amorality of the Clinton years, Bush’s campaign stressed his piety and moral rectitude in the wake of a misspent youth...
...Atlantic magazine. The students were thoroughbred products of the American educational system--gifted, disciplined, driven to succeed, with a calm but consuming focus. And, Brooks found, they were curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence of much moral passion. More troublingly, there was no sign at all of the sweet and fleeting belief that they could try things and fail at them and try other things and discard them until they found something that truly touched and transformed them--and that they could do for the rest of their lives...
...often monstrous job. Raised in the belief that their nation fought always and only for freedom and sent to Vietnam ostensibly to protect its people from an invading force of communists from the north, Kerrey and his men - like hundreds of thousands of others - found themselves in a moral vortex. While the politicians in far-off Washington never had their illusions challenged by daily reality, those sent to do the fighting were quickly apprised of the fact that for many South Vietnamese, the invaders were not the North Vietnamese, but the Americans. And often they found themselves in situations where...
...Actions like those described by Kerrey were not, for the most part, the product of poor judgment or malice on the part of field commanders. The principle of individual accountability notwithstanding, the ultimate moral responsibility for what happened that night in Thanh Phong - and in countless other Thanh Phong's, both documented and undocumented - lies less with those who did the actual killing, but with those who sent a half million young Americans on a moral, political and military mission impossible...
...begin with, one of the PSLM’s tactics seems to be a strategy of shaming people into believing the way they do: some ask “how can you not believe in a living wage?” This is nothing but moral arrogance, and it reeks of leftist censorship...