"Imperialism has been subject to moral censure by its critics, and thus the term is frequently used in international propaganda as a pejorative for expansionist and aggressive foreign policy."

However, the danger of smoking to health rested on little more than anecdotal evidence coupled with moral censure until 1950, when studies appeared in the United States and England that strongly incriminated cigarettes as a cause of lung cancer.

And it ends when the same music became associated with AIDS, and was subject to moral censure rooted in racism and homophobia.

The Offenstadt brothers were often the target of the moral censure of the period, particularly from French senator, René Bérenger, popularly known as père pudeur ("papa prudity").

Pierre Louÿs uses irony readily to evoke the cheap loves of the perverse young girls, and this relative distance enables him to despise any moral censure (incest, paedophilia...).

"I have never known a man so rigorous in the satisfaction of his appetites, so comfortable in the brazenness of his behavior and so contemptuous of the moral censure of others," the narrator says of Coolidge.

Gourevitch's examples demonstrate that the fanatical embrace of such identities continues to immunize the killers against the moral censure of the world, just as it once did against dissenting citizens.

Heinrich Dumoulin, commenting on Shenhui's accusations, wrote that Shenhui was "unscrupulous", while Ui Hakuju wrote that he had ""traits deserving of moral censure and criticism for intolerance".

The work encourages reflection on the politics of moral censure even as it explores unused spaces that are present within our larger urban experience.

And to the susceptible amongst the latter, the hostile criticism of learning has been more stinging than the severest moral censures of the vulgar.