Word: high-minded
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Ramsay MacDonald has been flayed before, but never so mercilessly as Mr. Muggeridge flays him as "Mr. High-Mind"; Buchmanism has been ridiculed before, but seldom so savagely: "Like moral courage, moral victory, moral anything, Moral Rearmament represents an attempt to reconcile the contrary demands of flesh and spirit by including them in one comprehensive formula. Moral Cannibalism would probably make a strong appeal to cannibals, and Moral Rape to the inmates of lunatic asylums." So it goes, with reference to almost everything: fuddlement, vulgarity and ineptitude...
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