What is distressing is how often the moral pronouncements offer only the surface of a position without following that line of thought through to its logical conclusions or its rock-bottom principles.

But many people have been skeptical about moral pronouncements coming from a woman who arrived at her wedding reception 24 years ago in St.-Tropez several months pregnant and wearing a see-through blouse.

No moral pronouncements are made though in the end, a last ditch act of redemption by the count - or is he a marquis?

More generally, while there is no denying that leaders couch their statements in moral language, which seems to emphasize differences and minimize similarities, their actions often bear little resemblance to these moral pronouncements.

She is basically a smaller version of Maw, getting in her share of indignant moral pronouncements and pointing out the foolishness of the male Broons.

Here evolutionary science was fully integrated with moral pronouncements about society's future progress or decline.

"It's one thing to make high moral pronouncements when the money's rolling in," said John Huey, the managing editor of Fortune.

We must attend to this matter so that our national fellowship and comity will not be emaciated, so that our moral pronouncements on the world stage will not be made into a hollow mockery.

Nonetheless, Demarco stops short of expressing any moral pronouncement on the subject.