How to Use morality in a Sentence

morality

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  • The group is calling for a return to traditional morality.
  • The decision may be legally justified, but I question its morality.
  • These works are not morality plays, don’t have a moral at the end.
    — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022
  • On the balance scale of Cold War morality, the sand didn’t count for much.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • But the ending of his morality tale has yet to be written.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
  • This is how a Breillat film works: The images are stark, the morality murky.
    — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • For Costner, that morality seems to boil down to a kind of broad populism.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 29 June 2024
  • It was framed as an issue of morality, right, which is the most troubling thing.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • My guiding mantra was that this is a fairytale; this is not a morality tale.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Jones made his own rules, based on his own sense of morality, Hudgens said.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The weight of morality shouldn’t be on the shoulders of comedians.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Gorsich is not the morality police in any of this, anyway.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • What happens next is a question of both morality and math.
    — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Josiah didn’t think too much about the morality of his creation.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Maybe some of them see a chance to rise through a hierarchy, despite the murky morality of the drug business.
    — Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • So the larger conversation around who gets to write, the morality of writing, all of that?
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • That makes a difference, even on the scale of morality where both things may be horrible.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • This places focus on the things of morality more so than the things of basic humanity.
    — Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024
  • At the same time, Cloudflare finds itself firmly on the right side of the morality argument.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The tragic death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's morality police.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Is the law equipped to handle morality, especially in the face of power?
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • At its core, this view of morality assumes a kind of moral integrity.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Everyone makes their own choices and morality is black and white — there is no gray.
    — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • These reflect the aftermath of the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • During the Trump era, the Watergate saga has once again been held up as a national morality tale.
    — Time, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The film adaptation saw Meriwether have the first go at the Bruce Wayne morality vs. romance conflict.
    — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 19 July 2024
  • The terror televised, the host and his fiendish following shed light on the limits of human morality.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • There was no empathy, morality, or grace in the response.
    — Vogue, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But, as our laws and as our morality and as our minds are trying get used to this changing world, this show seems to be a really good format to ask those questions and dramatize some of that human struggle.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The group formally codified a long set of rules governing morality last month that were based on a decree by the Taliban’s supreme spiritual leader in 2022 and will be enforced by the morality ministry.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024

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