Their cosmopolitan outlook has influenced some thinking, but even the most traditional residents are exposed to a changing nationwide moral rigor, conveyed by television.

The statement said the signatories wanted to "express the emotion which they feel about the action taken against Pineau-Valencienne," and praised his "moral rigour, integrity and competence."

On the French political scene, Rocard presented himself as the political heir of Pierre Mendès-France, known for his moral rigour, and as the politician who "speaks the truth".

Anglo-Saxon farce has invariable been softer, more comfortable, and hence presumably less satisfying to those seeking either vicarious adventure or moral rigor.

By tending to camouflage Marie Antoinette's tragic flaws, Fraser somewhat diminishes the nobility of the queen's spiritual journey and the moral rigor of her frequently remarkable book.

The high modernist period of dance, like high modernism in all the arts in the middle of the last century, tended to reject corny theatrical clichés in favor of the moral rigor of "pure dance."

What distinguished Christians from everyone else, according to both pagan and Christian contemporaries, was their moral rigor, which impressed even pagans hostile to the movement.

Braga believes Baconsky's moral "rigor" to bear a "Transylvanian sign", and to have been ultimately inspired by the philosophy of Lucian Blaga.

Politically, he knew that the country needed the evangelicals' moral rigor to counteract the forces of selfishness and subjectivism, but he could never actually be an evangelical himself.

Early after its founding, because of its strong Methodist influence, and its attempt to impose moral rigor, Evanston was called "Heavenston".