Word: moralizers
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...numbers than their boomer parents did before marriage. As families navigate this sensitive and often embarrassing terrain--neither child nor parent relishes the thought of the other having sex--David Treadway, a family therapist in Weston, Mass., notes approvingly that "people are trying to make judgments not based on moral systems but out of care and concern for their...
...said of mercantile Britain that it had no permanent friends, only permanent interests. The U.S. is a power pursuing a mission it considers moral. Nonetheless, even the most principled fight must take advantage of unpredictable changes in the balance of national interests. My enemy's friend one day is my enemy's enemy the next?and that opens the door to an opportunistic friendship or alliance. The problem is that such overnight love affairs can lead to big sorrow in the future...
...despite these hints of a prickly personality, the overriding impression is one of a reserved and gentle man driven by a fierce moral code. "(Their) parents brought (Mohammed and his sisters) up on very correct principles, good old-fashioned principles," says Iman Ismail. "Someone like him, even if he tried to be bad, he couldn't. He was decent to the last degree...
...ideological daisy-fields are relics of the slovenly anarchism that was born of our parents’ generation, reached its apogee at the height of the Vietnam War, and survives to this day in tenured faculty positions everywhere. And it is the fantasies of that generation—its moral relativism, its cult of cynicism, its delusion that all of humanity’s ills result from either Western capitalism or U.S. foreign policy—that, in their death throes, kick and scream against the better angels of our nature who yearn to believe in an America that...
...think we’ve always had a threat but the perception has changed,” she says. “People realized that there are not moral limits to what people will...