Example Sentences

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In New York, “God of Vengeance” was safe when it was downtown, away from the media spotlight that draws mainstream moralizers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2019

Here, he recollects the feeling of reading Greek myths after millennia “of moralizers, preceptors, dramatists, hypocrites and scolds” have had their way in mediating them for our consumption:

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

Scolds, grouches and moralizers have been trying to censor it since Plato, but media violence satisfies a universal appetite, is probably therapeutic and is absolutely awesome.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2014

Of the four candidates in the race for the Presidency, two were moralizers and two materialists, General Juarez T�vora and Right-Winger Plinio Salgado, both considered deeply religious, vowed to clean up corruption.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore, the more home-like grew the moralizers, the more Sprigg-like grew the subject.

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison