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She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light.

To us his view may appear moralistic rather than moral.

His films are moral, but he's not a moralistic man.

As the show developed, the writing took on more of a moralistic tone.

That would be more moralistic than a campaign against smoking in the movies.

And I'm not really that moralistic about how you get there."

Still, the tone of the tale is not particularly moralistic.

"Perhaps it's because of my age, but I've become rather moralistic.

The rather moralistic brothers decide they cannot stay, and make plans to leave straight away.

They are approached in a moralistic way, and it doesn't work.

Yet the goals set by the French for their railway system were moralistic, political, and military rather than economic.

Her views on affairs of the heart were strictly moralistic.

Harry is not a vindictive or even particularly moralistic man.

"I hate to sound overly moralistic, but it's the only way to do this job."

Indeed, even a moralistic approach, as in Idealism, may have something to contribute.

Who are the moralistic females you have in mind?

From that point of view, in Spain, people are not moralistic."

The first subsection was made up of religious and moralistic songs.

Embedded in these historical events were religious and moralistic elements.

It produced another effect, too, in destroying the moralistic nature of work for work's sake.

Some legal scholars say criminal justice has always been moralistic at its core.

Iowa politics has a moralistic tone, but here, too, there is a balance.

We must avoid any kind of moralistic attitude that sets these in opposition.

As a first lady of Arkansas, she was a moralistic reformer.

Hillary had always been partisan, and lately a little moralistic as well.