moralizing , also: moralising BrE

Working with this power of light is not empty moralizing, however.

This is what gets me about the moralizing of college presidents.

This is a game that no one knew better than Franklin himself, the moralizing of a man's character.

The moralizing of these images can become a little tedious.

She made me feel very small with my moralizing; so I dropt it.

He was bitterly disappointed to be met in this anxious hour with general moralizing.

Today, this masterpiece of Victorian moralizing would go well into six figures.

As for Spielberg, I don't want any moralizing from him.

In her best stories, no moralizing is needed.

Such verdicts are premature moralizing and wrong in key respects.

Conservative moralizing, in other words, requires a certain temperance to be truly effective.

"Hypocritical moralizing from the greatest war criminal that the universe has ever known."

He won't even give in to public moralizing.

Alger agreed, but let it be known that his moralizing would remain at its usual high level.

And because, in this case, there is such tiresome moralizing and so very much talk.

So goes the present defense of the indefensible: Enough of this moralizing!

"I suppose there's a point where people will reject kind of excessive moralizing on this.

"The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time."

Amid sympathy, there is judgment; beneath public compassion, a private moralizing.

Her moralizing in a chapter on the first anniversary of Sept. 11 is particularly galling.

That would be a better contribution to moral and religious reflection than premature moralizing."

And though it has its share of earnest moments, the movie doesn't sink to gaudy moralizing.

The composer even draws a veil of music, poetry and Christian moralizing over the title event.

It is history painting, but, unlike "Guernica," without the rhetoric and clear moralizing.

Many times, the answer is provided in a moralizing, chorus-augmented song that seems tacked on to the surface of the show.