Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, Harvard students rarely turn their noses up at any opportunity to be gently sanctimonious and condescending to their peers. Therefore, the fact that 99 percent of the Harvard student body could have been in the same position as the virus victims does not lighten the load of the moral bandwagon...
...remains chock full of people who, upon hearing you gripe about the loss of your eightpage final paper for a moral reasoning class, question ingenuously "Did you back it up on a disk?" when really, had you done so, your entire motivation for complaining would have been destroyed...
...even more ashamed of than greed or even lust. They tried to appeal to something entirely different: our arrogance. And in a place where they had to compete with thousands of other fluorescent fliers, they were aware that this was enough. For any Harvard student with a moral resume under his or her belt, and that's actually most of us, the fact that this might work is a little hard to stomach...
...described the figure of Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement, saying that her moral witness shamed people-she stood behind something that was morally right without expecting a tangible reward...
...People wanted it to be 1963 all over again. Racism intact gives a moral clarity," he said...