moralisings

A far cry from the haunted moralisings of any serious rendition, this is not so much a story retold as a lesson untold.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

A far cry from the haunted moralisings of any serious rendition, this is not so much a story retold as a lesson untold.

What the Dickens? 2009

A far cry from the haunted moralisings of any serious rendition, this is not so much a story retold as a lesson untold.

What the Dickens? 2009

A far cry from the haunted moralisings of any serious rendition, this is not so much a story retold as a lesson untold.

Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

‘Parents who never showed their love, complain of want of natural affection in their children; children who never showed their duty, complain of want of natural feeling in their parents; law – makers who find both so miserable that their affections have never had enough of life’s sun to develop them, are loud in their moralisings over parents and children too, and cry that the very ties of nature are disregarded.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

And had Edward attended in the least to his moralisings, he might have felt somewhat depressed.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

He indulges in no lugubrious moralisings -- he is far too agreeable a person for that -- but exhibits just the required touch of romance by letting you know that in his past there is a sadness which a career of excitement and danger is necessary to enable him to forget.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Euripides, in which he takes a view of the dramatist exactly the reverse of that maintained by Walter Savage Landor -- asserting that he was a bungler in the tragic art, and far too much addicted to foisting his stupid moralisings into his plays.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Rosamond's Pond, Vane walked back to his Grub Street lodgings plunged in fits of melancholy, alternated with moralisings on the faithlessness of women.

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

He burned for the beautiful things just beyond his grasp, suffered for them amid his morning moralisings, dreamt of them at night.

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather