Shane Warne

There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasn't even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.

Australian Athlete

Junot Diaz

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.

American Writer

Tom Shales

Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it's hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and patronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well-meaning.

David Hackworth

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

American Soldier

Kara Walker

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

American Artist

Kate Millett

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

American Activist

Kathy Acker

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Ross Douthat

There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot.

American Author

Iris Murdoch

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Irish Author

Ben Miller

I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.

English Comedian

Using 'moralistic' can imply disapproval of being overly judgmental.

Negative Implication

'Moralistic' sometimes means imposing beliefs without considering others' perspectives.

Not Always Righteous

Using 'moralistic' suggests a subtle critique of someone's self-righteous behavior.

Subtle Disapproval

'Moralistic' often refers to content aimed at teaching morals, used in educational contexts.

Educational Context

Content described as 'moralistic' usually contains clear lessons on right and wrong.

Lesson-Oriented

'Moralistic' stories are particularly suitable for young audiences learning societal norms.

For Young Audiences

 another and that was really important because social reputation matters the problem is that the larger the society becomes the more easy it is to take advantage of other people within the group so that's where this construct or this idea of a moralistic interventionist God that can read our

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 really like the art of Mantinea I really like looking at old churches I really like turning the pages of the Old Testament whatever it may be you know the kind of thing I'm talking about people who are attracted to the ritualistic side the moralistic communal

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 I think this is bigger than cartoons. This is about opinion and journalism. This, in the end, is about democracy. We now live in a world where moralistic mobs gather on social media and rise like a storm.

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