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1 And in its rule-making, the EU should simplify and streamline, rather than moralize and nitpick.

2 Both “Elephant” and this film steer away from trying to explain or moralize about what is depicted on screen, perhaps on the assumption that such work will be done, exhaustively, elsewhere.

3 In this case, the urges to terrify and moralize ultimately work against each other in this Great Depression-era tale of a coal-mining czar haunted by the death of his young son.

4 This strange insistence on moralizing teen pain, while also presenting completely amoral storylines, makes season three such a frustrating watch.

5 The show has a sequence of two dozen such moralizing scenes.

6 Toshio Shibata occupies a distinct place in landscape photography: His pictures don't idealize pristine wilderness nor do they moralize about the damaging imprint humans leave upon the natural world.

7 “Winter’s greatest accomplishment,” according to our reviewer, Mary Beth Keane, “is that she takes on enormous, highly charged topics — faith, the right to choose, female identity — and presents a story without one shred of moralizing.”

8 Rather than tie up their famous subjects in neatly moralized biographical packages they dwell on complexities and ambiguities.

9 She steers clear of easy moralizing but stays honest about the swirl of rage and fear that hovers over adolescence like a terrible weather system.

10 The chorus women, who have come to the camp to ogle the glamorous military men and to moralize the unfolding tale, are dressed like bridesmaids at a suburban wedding.

11 Already, food has been moralized by the fear of gaining weight: carrot sticks and low-fat yogurt are ‘good,’ cookies and chocolate are ‘bad.’

12 Prone to sentimentality and heavy-handed moralizing, and not a little naïve, she is aggressively recruited by Mae, the Farm’s director, who knows that Reagan — or, more precisely, her womb — could represent “a record-breaking year-end bonus.”

13 Both works seem to look back at 17th-century Dutch painting, with its moralizing view of the domestic arts.

14 Paralleling the books’ blend of pedagogy and moralizing, the show constantly plays off the double meaning of the word “instruction” — a schooling process but also a disciplinary tool.

15 In discussions about food and eating behavior, it is important to avoid moralizing certain kinds of food by labeling them as "good" or "bad," as girls may extend these labels to their personal worth.

16 It’s tempting to say the show came about before the culture war politicized everything, but “Beavis and Butt-Head” was actually a magnet for criticism and moralizing.

17 It’s easy to moralize, as Johnson’s Medium piece suggests, about greed and shortsightedness and hubris — the same judgments always leveled at California from the east.

18 “Critical and satirical yet always humanist, Almodóvar’s work is free of judgment or moralizing,” he explains.

19 For all the male introspection, though, our movies still love heroic and villainous men, spirited and supportive ladies — the majority white — along with simple moralizing and tidy, exultant endings.

20 Braving one hideous setback after the next, Candide comes to see the falsehood of Pangloss' doctrine, the way such moralizing prattle callously ignores tremendous human suffering.

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2 教化

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3 训话

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8 训导

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