Word: moralistes
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...variety might be better. "Eventually the ladies will take to them, not because they like them better, but simply because no woman wants to run unnecessary risks. Getting into trouble with the police may have very unpleasant consequences, since most men just love to play the part of the moralist where their own wives are concerned...
...Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts scrappily with the question of good & evil, is as far from the intent and purpose of Moralist Hawthorne as it is from literature-a considerable distance...
...this movie. Spencer Tracy too often gazes stonily at God's sea of grass to show that he is both rugged individualist and nature mystic, but he plays with considerable force and style. As the decades roll by, Melvyn Douglas looks as wretched as the most vindictive moralist could decently expect. Miss Hepburn looks tense too, but arouses interest chiefly through her beautiful turn-of-the-century costumes...
...many moral tales, Good is less sharply drawn than Evil; some readers may think good Dr. Ransom's mysterious sources of power more druidical than Christian. But for Christian Moralist Lewis, the allegory's the thing...
...Hypocritic Reader. In the Sussex farmhouse where he lived for some ten years as a secluded bachelor, Smith dedicated himself to discovering a literary form in which to distill his urbane reflections. One day, leafing through the pages of Charles Baudelaire's Poems in Prose, Moralist Smith found the form. It was these lapidary fragments which he called trivia, and in which he condensed the discernments, bafflements, exultations, wry exposures to society and to eternity, and shy self-revelations of the Smithian soul, which in Baudelaire's words is "vous, hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable...