I am not fit to moralise about his relations with women; I only know that he was a sinner, and I think of his temptations.
Moralising is waste of time, but one might almost moralise to the extent of boredom concerning the life of Billy Devine, boozer, actor, betting-man.
My reader needs not be afraid; I am not going to "moralise this spectacle with a thousand similes.
There is no need for me to moralise it to you, for you have done so for yourself already.
Says Disraeli, "Men moralise amongst ruins"; here is a rare spot to moralise in for those so minded.
But to feel and to moraliseare different conditions, and he resented that careless twitter of Anne's name in the road.
They gave the impression of offering much to one who could interpret what they said, and in face of them it was useless to moralise upon the untrustworthiness of woman's beauty.
Might it not be possible tomoralise the pagan system without discrediting its authors, to reconcile the claims of reason and conservative religious feeling?
The fate of the departed friend unfortunately leads him to moralise on the weakness of mortal men, mere insects, or bubbles on the stream.
To moralise to the dipsomanic is but lost effort, one may as well abuse a driver for not stopping his bolting horses.
It was Mrs. Hogarth herself who, after her husband's death, "engaged a Gentleman to explain each Print and moralise on it in such a Manner as to make them as well instructive as entertaining.
The blocks are worn, travesties of the original prints; the letterpress is no doubt just what Mrs. Hogarth desired when she "engaged a Gentleman to explain each Print and moralise upon it.
None were inclined to pay any heed to the French maxim that les represailles sont toujours inutiles, nor inclined to ponder and moraliseon the lesson and warning given by the horrible catastrophe which had overtaken our people at Cawnpore.
But I am no padre, and must not commence to moraliseor preach.
This poem has great elegance and freshness of style, and though the author is inclined to moralise (as a near forerunner of the Roman de la Rose was bound to do), his moralisings are gracefully and naively put.
Well do I remember your musing eye and thoughtful brow bent kindly on me from the stage-box yonder: and do you recollect how prettily you used to moralise on the deserted scenes when the play was over?
Men moralise among ruins, or, in the throng and tumult of successful cities, recall past visions of urban desolation for prophetic warning.
We moralise among ruins: it is always when the game is played that we discover the cause of the result.
To moralise a theme is duty: My muse shallmoralise of beauty.
But though I missed the chance to moralise because I could not keep from laughing at the plight of the hen in possession, I may be permitted to score a point with poultry raisers.
Then you were doing an extremely useless and not very magnanimous thing,' said the Duke of St. James; 'for to moralise in a desert is no great exertion of philosophy.
You should moralise in a drawing-room; and so let me propose our return to that world which must long have missed us.
Socrates, therefore, sought to direct and moralise a force already existing.
It looked so sad, compared with what it used to be, so desolate and brambled up and ruinous, that I scarcely should have known it, except for the gray pedestal of the prostrate dial we used to moralise about.
I leave the question to the schoolmen, because I am convinced that to moralise with the inexperienced availeth nothing.
How the Count Mirabel did laugh at those poor devils who wake only to moralise over their own folly with broken spirits and aching heads!
Yet such I suppose is life,' murmured Ferdinand; 'we moralise when it is too late; nor is there anything more silly than to regret.
Nay, if we are to moralise on worldly felicity, I fear that instead of inspiriting you, which is my wish, I shall prove but a too congenial companion.
Declamation is easier than demonstration, and to moralise less difficult than to be sincere.
Fortunately in this need of introducing romance into phenomena lies the leaven that is to leaven the lump, the subtle influence that is to moralise religion.
Some aspect of nature or some law of life, expressed in an attribute of deity, is what we really regard, and to regard such things, however sinister they may be, cannot but chasten and moralise us.
Conscious interests first justify and moralisethe mechanisms they express.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moralise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
