moralities

It appears that all human groups have moralities, that is, imperative norms of behavior backed by reasons and values.

Human Rights Nickel, James 2006

Indeed, for some time dramatic pieces were called moralities and interludes indifferently.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

French writers, his ryme wrested, and in his inuentions small subtillitie: the applications of his moralities are the best in him, and yet those many times very grossely bestowed, neither doth the substance of his workes sufficiently aunswere the subtilitie of his titles.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

_The songs of this group, in lieu of a more accurate name, may be called moralities, since they contain a moral incident or reflection.

A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs Josiah Henry Combs 1923

Similar to that of the festival plays was the development of the so-called moralities in the Netherlands schools of rhetoric.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Gower sauing for his good and graue moralities, had nothing in him highly to be commended, for his verse was homely and without good measure, his wordes strained much deale out of the French writers, his ryme wrested, and in his inuentions small subtilitie: the applications of his moralities are the best in him, and yet those many times very grossely bestowed, neither doth the substance of his workes sufficiently aunswere the subtiltie of his titles.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

We are home alone, left to attend the appetites of our primal 'moralities' and, like narcissistic voyeurs, relish our myopic, brutally lurid, binary view.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View 2010

We are home alone, left to attend the appetites of our primal 'moralities' and, like narcissistic voyeurs, relish our myopic, brutally lurid, binary view.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View MD Qanta Ahmed 2010

We are home alone, left to attend the appetites of our primal 'moralities' and, like narcissistic voyeurs, relish our myopic, brutally lurid, binary view.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View 2010

The same group is behind the teaching of "sex education" to primary school children, behind the slaughter of the teaching of christianity in state schools, behind the drastic dumbing down of education levels, principally in the US and UK, but spreading in the G7, behind the teaching about alcohol and drugs, about various, ermm, "moralities" in partnerships - now deemed normal.

[freedom] twilight's last blogging 2009