MORALITY in a Sentence

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For MORALITY, below is one of 279 sentences:
It was a text which might seem to the casual observer at variance with the lofty morality elsewhere preached by Jesus Christ.

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 Meanings and Examples of MORALITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
morality
 n.  set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At his desire, she went hunting, which was his symbol of happiness, and she ordered porridge for breakfast, which was his symbol of morality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  He hopes to see all the evangelical denominations joined in one strong body, opposing Catholicism and Christian Science, and properly guiding all movements that make for morality and prohibition.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  There's Reverend Zitterel; Sister Bogart about half runs his church, so of course he'll take her say-so; and Ezra Stowbody, as a banker he has to be all hell for morality and purity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  Against this stern and unyielding morality, supported as it was by such visible policy, there was no appeal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
5  However implicit the faith of David was in the performance of ancient miracles, he eschewed the belief of any direct supernatural agency in the management of modern morality.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
6  The whole frame-work of society, both in Europe and America, is made up of various things which will not stand the scrutiny of any very ideal standard of morality.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  It's a pity, wife, that you have burdened them with a morality above their condition and prospects.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  It is a question of public morality.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  It was a text which might seem to the casual observer at variance with the lofty morality elsewhere preached by Jesus Christ.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
10  Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
11  It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  Tied me up and delivered me into the hands of middle class morality.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
13  I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
14  Middle class morality claims its victim.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
15  They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough-bass and human nature; and had some extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
16  The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
17  Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admira-tion, respect, moral support, and help.
18  He brandished the moral force of government as his weapon.
19  The moral offen - sive remarks in the book had to be expurgated before it could be printed.
20  British newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.
21  It was so clearly a moral fable.
22  I have an ethical and a moral obligation to my client.
23  Ethics deals with moral conduct.
24  His moral conduct is amply certificated.
25  The moral of this story is that crime does not pay.
26  He turns every subject into a moral discussion.
27  It would be wrong to say that the Church doesn't enter the great moral debates of our time.
28  We have a moral obligation to protect the environment.
29  The moral characters of men are formed not by heredity but by environment.
30  No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.