Word: moralistic
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...much of thier sexual authority and at times in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls there are moments of restraint. But this surprising equilibrium only reflects the common-sensical questions that have begun to creep into Meyer's films. Meyer as social philosopher, as promulgator of popular tastes, as moralist, sees in his sexual fireworks not only profit, but the bitter lessons of modern liberalism...
...self-deceptions which languish life away in the gloom of anxiety. Chekhov writes of the misery of overwrought people struggling to maintain self-control against unhappiness they do not understand. Both writers see themselves subject to the same errors and anxieties. Johsnon, despite his reputation as a prodigious moralist, majestically ordering life with indefatigable lucidity through the irresistible ebb and flow of his periodic prose, as profoundly melancholy man with a resilient and charitable sense of humor much like Chekhov's. Johnson believed that the miseries of disappointment would always exceed the joys of happiness; that human self-confidence...
...younger sister and Simon with himself. As the plot unravels, the book shifts from comedy to melodrama, to tragedy-a course few writers could control or sustain. Miss Murdoch nearly manages it, because her presence is so forcefully stamped on every event and every line of dialogue. She is moralist, realist and magician, an unsentimental Titania gazing coolly at the "enchanted donkeys"-lovers whom she awakens from Midsummer Night's madness...
...plume of the early 18th century Whigs Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard, who wrote Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious. Also for Cato the Censor, the Roman statesman. Publius, whose name was taken by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, was a Roman moralist of the 1st century...
...Besides Moralist Matthiessen, there is Labor Historian Matthiessen, sketching in the miserable background of the migrant farm worker. Ethnic Historian Matthiessen scrambles to provide a brief study of Chicanos (Mexican Americans) practically back to the time of the conquistadors. On the scene in the summer of 1968, Reporter Matthiessen gets down the local color, checks out some picket lines, balances his story by interviewing some of the biggest growers, and even manages to quiz a few bystanders. What does the waitress at the local dairy freeze think of it all? No comment...