Example Sentences
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When behaviors such as eating meat, cigarette smoking, premarital sex or religious schooling become moralized, they elicit powerful moral emotions, institutional action against the behavior, and even censure or condemnation from others.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2021
So, when you have that kind of society, what happens is … issues that used to be things you could compromise on become moralized in their form and therefore uncompromisable.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020
I think that it should be a shades-of-gray thing about slower, faster, and not so moralized; granted that there are these difficult decisions around.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 30, 2019
Insofar as it frames the face, hair easily becomes the focus of a moralized understanding of physical attractiveness, telegraphing sinfulness or virtue, depending.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2015
He thinks about Gerhard, the way he locked up the radio for safekeeping, told Helmuth to leave it alone, the way he moralized to Helmuth.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
