How to Use moralist in a Sentence

moralist

noun

• Swift was a moralist in matters of the heart, and once someone broke her trust all bets were off.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
• As is inevitable with truly great satire, the satirist had become a moralist.
  — M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 11 Oct. 2020
• The trade of Drake is hardly some line in the sand for football purists or anti-tanking moralists.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• Reactionary moralists, either way, scare me — and that speaks to the other side.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• No, the toughest Stoppard is the moralist, who, from first to last, is vexed by the spectacle of freedom under threat.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• That’s why that great moralist Bill O’Reilly — remember him?
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
• Austen was a moralist, certainly, but of a different strain.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017
• Preserve only, in a thousand or so verses, the bare details and pure utterance of a dead-on moralist.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2020
• If so, the moralist’s alignment was, if nothing else, flexible.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
• And an effective moralist would do this in an engaging and compelling way.
  — Yuval Levin, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
• As a war president, Wilson was both moralist and martinet.
  — Richard Norton Smith, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Professor Pipes, a moralist shaped by his experiences as a Jew who had fled the Nazi occupation of Poland, would have none of it.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2018
• But his argument sounded so sober, so tongue-in-cheek, that many of his contemporaries took it as the great moralist's true stance, and denounced him as a savage.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2021
• An even fiercer moralist, her work continues to drive home the message that wars are far less often fought on grounds of idealism than of cynicism and greed.
  — Judith MacKrell, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• Great satirists can’t entirely be moralists, even now, being as the latter contradicts the former.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• Miller was fascinated by Henrik Ibsen—a moralist with a flair for the dramatic.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2017
• The result is a bit like reading a steamy romance as retold by a Victorian moralist: The basic story is the same, but most of the enthralling details are suppressed.
  — Adam Rowe, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• The ablest moralist is thus almost inevitably a kind of intellectual.
  — Yuval Levin, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
• The moralist in us wants to judge good or bad, and Shakespeare had this ability to withhold that judgment for as long as possible, to understand the complexity.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• The kid from Riverhead is also a kind of moralist, a highly analytical truth-teller on the financial markets.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
• For all his hatred of parochial moralizing—a constant theme in his work, whether the preaching came from Jews or gentiles, liberals or conservatives—Roth was himself a kind of moralist.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 23 May 2018
• Food writers are divided into two major branches, the sensualists and the moralists.
  — Max Watman, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Meanwhile, even liberal Berkeley has been able to withstand the heat from homeless advocates and hyper-moralists, adopting ordinances to prevent the obstruction of public streets for the safety of all two years ago.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 11 Jan. 2018
• In order to shame churchmen and laypeople alike into being less focused on wealth and luxury, moralists mobilized all the rhetorical weapons at their disposal.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Challenging the notion that Wilson was no more than a utopian moralist, Tony Smith argues that Wilson’s prescriptions for easing international conflict have stood the test of time.
  — Joseph S. Nye Jr., WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• He’s always been a moralist, concerned with our obligations to one another; now, an ongoing and intense debate over democracy and its threats has further exposed that.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
• Catholic moralists oppose the administration of methotrexate as an abortifacient even in the case of ectopic pregnancy, and Catholic hospitals do not provide it as a treatment.
  — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
• Three years ago, Alaskans voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana and ever since a minority of moralists has been striving to undo the will of the majority.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Oct. 2017
• Of course, the moralists of old who were trying to save the family unit from the destruction caused by pornography and homosexuality were completely different.
  — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 27 Dec. 2019
• King became safe and ethereal, registering as a noble moralist.
  — Time Staff, Time, 4 Apr. 2018

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