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1 Our morality comes from the elephant, is instinctive and tribal, binds and blinds, and easily turns into the moralising that ever makes us "righter" than them.

2 “You know, I spent no time moralising it. I am pretty comfortable with it,” Gyllenhaal says when we meet in a slick boutique hotel on the Brooklyn waterfront.

3 Her interlocutors can barely grasp what she is saying, because she is an old wife herself, and old wives neither explain nor moralise.

4 “They opposed the morale regeneration we’re promoting. I respect their views but don’t share them. I believe we have to moralise the country, purify public life and strengthen cultural, moral and spiritual values,” he said.

5 There’s a good reason why superhero films don’t win Oscars: for all their fire and fury, their furrowed-brow moralising can’t disguise their emotional and spiritual vacuousness.

6 It’s depressing anyway that the movie shaped real, tragic events into a moralising narrative designed to deter women from aspiring to freedoms that are commonplace for men.

7 Perhaps it seemed glib to end a play about Greek debt on a moralising note.

8 For Gopal, though, these issues are simply handy levers for empty western moralising.

9 Indeed, in all four of the Step Up's narratives, heartland moralising morphs into political agenda; financial acumen means heartless capitalism and bread-line living requires soul.

10 It offers no explanations of events and makes no attempt to moralise.

11 That at least would be better than having the PM pick off selected individuals, moralising about them in the process.

12 A Shavian twist gives one of the most coruscating and convincing speeches – against conventional moralising – to the scoundrel Dubedat, who knocks out his opponents cold.

13 I'm not always persuaded by this moralising x-ray: why should a painting be ashamed of its sensual surface?

14 "We must not make the error of mixing up value-oriented foreign policy with moralising foreign policy," Bijan Djir-Sarai, the general secretary of junior coalition partner the Free Democrats, told broadcaster Welt.

15 The fact that moralising religious beliefs are more prevalent in more complex societies does not prove that one caused the other.

16 Some critics have found Bouchareb's moralising unconvincing, and the leads too stereotypical.

17 He avoids moralising, "which is to morality what artiness is to art".

18 In the end he conveniently sidesteps his own moralising and lets it happen by accident, when one of the pepperpots runs over the wires, merely delaying their evolution by a thousand years.

19 His wife, meanwhile, sits "sighing and moralising over her broad hems".

20 In any case, the most frustrating thing about the constant flow of moralising about women and drink is how one-sided it is.

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