moralist's

Describing the way many townspeople placidly fall into line, willing to scapegoat the local Jews and tolerate atrocity, Hegi occasionally slips from a storyteller's voice to a more formal, moralist's voice.

Good Hearts, Grim Horrors 2008

Morris details his clashes with the "trusts," which built his reputation for "trust busting," and in the process establishes that his political philosophy before 1912 was little more than a moralist's conviction that bad men should not be allowed to do bad things.

The Performer Baker, Russell 2002

Derek Walcott has both a seafarer's resourcefulness, appropriate to a West Indian, and a moralist's eye for character and commitment.

Embracing Adversity Mazzocco, Robert 1979

And benevolence, though the moralist's eye is on justifying it to the individual, is itself a concern for other people's happiness or their rescue from misery.

HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE ABRAHAM EDEL 1968

That it is, of course; but he will maintain that nothing "taken by itself" is either good or bad, from the moralist's point of view.

A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton

But the cynic may maintain with some plausibility that the moralist's chapter on International Ethics must be as void of content as the traditional chapter on "Snakes in Ireland."

A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton

Possibly your taste inclines you to those moralist's studies of "Woman," in which the author warns his readers on the first page that "he does not speak for chaste ears."

French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard

This is not merely a moralist's theory, or an empirical observation; it is a scientific fact.

Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

Those therefore who wrestle manfully with the effects of regretted lapses or weaknesses, who fight down, sometimes perhaps unsuccessfully, the strong tendencies of a too exuberant animal nature, who strive to neutralize an influence that unduly oppresses them, -- against these, guilty though they may have been, is not directed the moralist's unmeasured censure.

Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

Here is the little practical moralist's advice to the ladies!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various