And it can be proved by innumerable examples that when we are quite young we do like the moralizing story.
The reason is perfectly simple: it is that children like moralizing more than anything else, and eat it up as if it were so much jam.
But he already begins to disintegrate the colossal work of AEschylus--notably in his separation of the trilogy and in his moralizing of the idea of Nemesis.
Such moralizing sounds commonplace to us who have been lessoned by the memento mori of the Middle Ages.
Tom Dashall, who had carefully watched the proceedings of Pat, could not help moralizing upon this last act of the Irishman, and the advice which accompanied it.
Moralizing at midnight," said Tom; "an excellent title for a volume sparkling contemplations.
Come," said Tom, "I see you are getting into one of your moralizing strains, such as you left us with.
During the period which is most fruitful for the maturing of the mind, that is, during the years from twelve to twenty, I lived by turns in six or seven cities, and as it was impossible to travel about with books, I never retained any.
I pour out my spirit continually into the eternal moulds without expecting that anything will result from it.
I received many kindly admonishing and gravely moralizing letters from my chiefs and from former compatriots.
He delights rather in the contemplation of nature, and in moralizing on the life and aspirations of man.
The first of these has been taken by some intelligent critics to be a moralizing allegory; the second, a moralizing fairy-tale.
But it seems that his moralizing had no great effect upon the people that were bent upon taking life easy and plunged into pleasure with greater zest than they pursued their work.
I hear my reader exclaim, "How now, madcap, moralizing Mr. Spy?
His conversation and appearance had, in an instant, recovered their wonted steadiness; and before we were half across the market, Crony was moralizing upon the dangers of the scene from which we had so recently and fortunately escaped.
There are times when the style of Massinger rises into solemn eloquence, especially when he indulges in the moralizing vein.
Yet when I ask myself: "Is Ibsen's moralizing worse than anyone else's?
The fact is all moralizing is tedious, and is recognized as such by everyone the moment it becomes a little stale.
Philip went back to his inn, moralizing on the pride and perverseness which made it impossible to make any impression on a Redclyffe Morville, whom not even the fear of detection could lead to submission.
Tamerlane, who, we are told, was patterned on William III, is an extremely pious pagan, who overtops conquest with mercy and adorns every occasion with a moralizing discourse.
The sentimentalizing andmoralizing of the middle classes, which from the time of Southerne had threatened to have their say on the stage, found their spokesman in the author of "Clarissa Harlowe.
The regularity of school work and its industry is a valuable moralizing agent, but entirely inadequate and insufficient by itself.
Will-culture is intensive, not extensive, and the writer knows a case in which even a vacation ramble with a moralizing fabulist has undermined the work of years.
Moralizing is nice when there is plenty of time and nothing else to be done.
For in one essential, as in no others, was Ruiz Rios a man after Jim Kendric's own heart: the Mexican was a man to play for any stake and do no moralizing over the result.
Herbert Spencer says: "The belief in the moralizingeffects of intellectual culture, flatly contradicted by facts, is absurd a priori.
From such a moralizing strain as this, she was suddenly roused by a touch on the shoulder, and turning round, perceived Mrs. Hughes directly behind her, attended by Miss Tilney and a gentleman.
That moralizing Puritan strain of censure which lost none of its harshness in crossing the Atlantic Ocean found full play in the colonial satire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The moralizing might be by La Bruyère or La Rochefoucauld.
Their polished and facile moralizing becomes almost exasperating if it be remembered that the poet wrote when a whole system of society was falling, and falling noisily, about him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moralizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: didactic; instructive; monitory; moral
