Would you rather have him face down Saddam Hussein or surrender to soap-box
moralisers who pretend to believe that no other politician ever lied?
Throughout, therefore, he combines inferences from the `norms and ideals' of moralists and
moralisers with the harder evidence of legal texts as he enquires into sexual relations inside and outside marriage in the Later Roman Empire.
For these ambitious
moralisers, a comprehensive study of natural beings was needed not only to discern the universal divine order, but also to improve the nation's welfare and prosperity by discovering new sources of food, medicines and mineral materials.
It is a comparison that is drawn because it gives
moralisers who despise working-class footballers getting rich hope that Rooney (above, left) will end up in the gutter, thus proving them right.
As are those
moralisers who sit up on the high ground bleating about how all life is sacred.
While acknowledging the spectacle was a "stomach-turning National, one to watch from behind the sofa", Alan Lee concluded in The Times: "Po-faced
moralisers may disapprove, but sporting legend is enriched by days such as these."
In 1515 Erasmus, like many of his contemporaries (including the Reformers Calvin and Zwingli) considered the composite author `Seneca' as the greatest of the pagan
moralisers, closely compatible with Christian morality.
I hate to hear football described as The Beautiful Game mainly because it's used by lazy
moralisers to slag off players in moments of ugliness.
WORST SOUND: Dishonourable mentions to Owen Hargreaves' droning on BT Sport, the false outrage from
moralisers over Jack Wilshere having the odd cigarette, those bleeding clackers at Leicester's King Power Stadium, the likes of Sergio Ramos and Cristiano Ronaldo making "come and get me" pleas to Man United to ensure new deals at Real Madrid and the continued silence from the Premier League clubs when fans ask them to lower ticket prices.
Wait until someone captures them on their phone enjoying themselves and sells it to a media outlet and you'll find plenty of
moralisers doing just that.
Even those harshest of
moralisers, our right-wing tabloids, passed it off with a smile.
Just like the Victorians themselves, we now see that the stiff-backed, buttoned-up
moralisers were upholders of an establishment in which children were abused, lies were repeated and the truth covered up.
If middle-class
moralisers genuinely see football as an oikish distraction for knuckle-scraping neanderthals, why don't they look away?
These self-righteous
moralisers could admit that a sport, which for all of the knee-jerk accusations about it showcasing the worst of modern Britain, is not in the same league when it comes to cheating or gratuitous violence as the public school sports of rugby and cricket.
(1) THE BBC submitting to Middle England
moralisers and letting Jonathan Ross go.
