pseudo-morality

Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011

Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011

Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011

For I dont recognise that by pursuing such a pseudo-morality that I in some way reach a notional materialist "heavan", as Mill seemed to suggest.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

John Goes complains that hedonistic pro-choicers want to eliminate all of the negative consequences associated with the immoral, sinful behavior of those who engage in casual sex, but could it not be that pro-lifers are so fixated on puritan pseudo-morality that they are willing to endorse the slavery and suffering of young girls, and the murder of heroin users, in its pursuit?

Punishment 2008

The Republicans 'cynical use of pseudo-morality not only acted as a smokescreen and left more pressing issues un-addressed, but it also served as the initial seduction into this current nadir in American political life.

Alison Rose Levy: The Moral Authority of Larry Craig 2008

If they can redirect our rage (Don't pay any attention to that poverty behind the curtain!), make us focus on pseudo-morality wars, we'll direct all that rage against the candidate they tell us is the root of all evil.

Linda Hansen: Bittergate: It's Not About Mayhill Fowler 2008

And, it is indicative of the pseudo-morality that has been unrelenting in its attack of women's rights.

Condom-nation? Not if FOX has its way! 2007

Not content to meddle in their own national affairs, they cross borders to spread their bigoted, exclusionary, pseudo-morality.

canada is so sane 2005

Not content to meddle in their own national affairs, they cross borders to spread their bigoted, exclusionary, pseudo-morality.

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