Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much as the ministers tried to help Solo move away from drugs and crime, so did Solo help the ministers see their moral responsibility to help the community with more than words...
Inevitably, the much publicized showdown prompted the larger question of whether Coretta Scott King, 67, and her son Dexter, 33 -- the third of her four children, who heads the King Center -- still have the political standing and moral authority to represent Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision. In a news conference about the Park Service dispute, Coretta King declared that "the same evil forces that destroyed Martin Luther King are now trying to destroy my family...
...believe in the Good Samaritan," Gingrich said, "and explain that as long as business is making money we can walk by a fellow American who's hurt and not do something." Newt even acknowledged that his pet project, a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, lacked "the moral urgency of coming to grips with what's happening to the poorest Americans...
...metaphysical catfight engaged moral extremes that put William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues on the best-seller list for the entire 52 weeks, while the world watched a regular Ring cycle of gaudy, televised, weirder- than-fiction unvirtue. The Nicole Brown Simpson murder was merely the most riveting segment...
...dialectic is disorienting. On the one hand, the present time seems dramatically immoral, one of the sleazier, stupider, more violent periods of American history. On the other hand -- or perhaps merely as a result -- Americans have become the world's most relentless moralizers, engaged in moral improvisation and soul-searching with a focused anguish not seen since the days of St. Anthony and the desert monks...