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- noun Plural form of
moralizing .
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Instead, a year-zero sensibility has, consciously and unconsciously and effectively supplanted all such "moralizings" and other trifles.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Instead, a year-zero sensibility has, consciously and unconsciously and effectively supplanted all such "moralizings" and other trifles.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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In stark contrast to Bromion (who represents the overtly sensual, gluttonously appetitive, and perversely self-gratifying aspect of European colonialism), Theotormon is grimly ascetic,11 his moralizings aligning him in Visions 'colonial allegory with a self-righteous and hypocritical imperialist evangelism.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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His very defects are higher than many men's virtues, and his most fantastic moralizings will bear reading without doing harm, especially during a
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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The second part of 'Robinson Crusoe' is no more satisfactory than any other similar continuation, and the third part, a collection of moralizings, is today entirely and properly forgotten.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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The profligate must be lured from his emotional excesses and debaucheries, not by moralizings, but by showing him just how these things fritter his energies and retard his progress.
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It may be possible that an occasional twinge or pang may have concentrated the terse narrative, or pointed the sharp and shrewd moralizings of these pages; for there is an amazing conciseness and a keen epigrammatic sagacity in them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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Wherever, as in his moralizings upon King Philip's War, and in his incidental comments upon the peculiarities and temper of his prominent men, he allows us to meet his own mind, he is uniformly wise and interesting.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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In view of this, his sage discoursings upon grave questions of political and social economy have about as comical an effect as the moralizings of a harlequin.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Their faith in republican government was fearfully shaken, while the causes of the great disaster were of course sought out, and made the text of hasty but copious moralizings.
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian
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