noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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conventional
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Individual response to the altered conditions was, as might be expected, conditioned by conventional morality .
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Freed from the trappings of conventional morality , Van Ness is at liberty to invent his own.
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This feeling has nothing to do with conventional views about conduct, or conventional morality , or ethics.
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These urban comedies portrayed a new moral code in opposition to conventional morality .
new
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With this new concept of morality comes a new notion of the hero.
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He represents the { new morality } founded on the natural goodness of man; he is tolerant and humane.
personal
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I choose that name to show its connection to a parallel ideal of personal morality .
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This suggests that the privatization of personal morality is well on its way.
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Prior to the 1830s, personal morality had not been seen as necessary for political eminence.
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She found herself agreeing with the historian's distaste for Mills' personal morality .
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Religion, politics, personal and social morality and fantasy are all media in which he regularly operates.
political
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The limits of that practice of obedience must therefore be constituted by the boundaries of that political morality .
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This is because a commitment to representative government and loyalty to democratic institutions are themselves fundamental constituents of our collective political morality .
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How would the judges discover this political morality ?
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Of course they will, but in hard cases judges must make controversial judgments of political morality whichever conception of law they hold.
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The accepted standards of political morality differed from our own; evidence is hard to come by and difficult to interpret.
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There can be no political morality without prudence; that is, without consideration of the political consequences of seemingly moral action.
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The political morality which underlies the legal order is not exhausted by our attachment to democratic government.
private
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Civic institutions were therefore the public expression of private morality .
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In direct criticism of Wolfenden, he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality .
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This is where the recent history of law's withdrawal from the regulation of private morality provides a useful perspective.
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They then experienced little difficulty in deciding of what private morality consisted.
public
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In direct criticism of Wolfenden, he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality .
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The Town Council was then, as now, very strict in the matter of public morality .
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I say this for Depardieu's own good-and in the interests of public morality .
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In the areas it controls, any deviation from the public morality it tolerates is ruthlessly punished.
social
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The principles of good faith reflect professional ethics and general social morality .
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Indeed, social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution.
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They evolved their own codes of conduct and social morality , inpart modelled on those of the warrior class.
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Religion, politics, personal and social morality and fantasy are all media in which he regularly operates.
traditional
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They deny personal responsibility, disparage traditional morality , denigrate religion, and promote hostility toward the family's way of life.
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tale
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The problem is that, as with any morality tale , this is a very partial truth.
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No wonder we prefer the simplicity of morality tales with comforting villains.
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Arthurian legends or the morality tales of life under capitalism were not enough.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anyone who carried out such an attack obviously has no morality whatsoever.
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Christian morality
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I think we should question the morality of turning away refugees.
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Monogamy and sexual morality are extremely important to conservatives in the age of AIDS.
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Some leaders have blamed television for the decline in standards of morality .
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Victorian commentators were very concerned about public morality generally.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But a small, growing school of Catholic intellectuals argue that natural theology actually supports the morality of homosexual unions.
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Gilligan sees this as a morality of responsibility that stands apart from the morality of rights underlying Kohlberg's conception.
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He would learn morality by observing people's reactions when he performed unsocial actions; but he would never be punished.
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Men had all the power in the state and therefore made both its laws and its morality .
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Prosperity, tranquility, honesty, morality , decency, normality and on-time airline arrivals do not make news.
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The double standard of morality relied upon this separation between the public and the private.
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This implies that there is a principle apart from morality on which morality itself can be founded.
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Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.