Word: moralist
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...classical Christian moralist, the teachings of the church are moral imperatives that apply always and everywhere to men faced with an ethical decision. To the modern-day existentialist, all guidelines are irrelevant; he argues that any authentic decision must arise spontaneously from man's inner sense of what the moment demands. To day, a number of Christian theologians expound a third way-halfway between the two previous paths-which they call "situation" or "contextual" ethics...
...remedy this would have been to have Miss Akers play Lucille a lot less insufferably. A truly ingenuous moralist might have balanced the play. But Miss Akers' performance stressed Lucille's most annoying traits. Her facial expressions ranged from arrogance to headache...
After the Conference. Another right-wing entry is Senator Pierre Marcilhacy, 55, a distinguished attorney who writes novels, plays jazz piano, and paints watercolors. Pro-Common Market and something of a middle-class moralist, Marcilhacy at 6 ft. 7 in. towers over the 6-ft. 4-in. De Gaulle. But that is almost his only advantage, and, as he admits, he will be fortunate to get as many as 1,000,000 of the 20 million votes expected to be cast in December...
...What the Negro has done to himself was well expressed by French Moralist La Rochefoucauld: "The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves...
...Tuama stressed that the type of modern novelist--such as James Baldwin, Andre Gide, or Norman Mailer--who is considered immoral by the moralist element of society really "leading the struggle against conformity in sexual and social norms...