The controversy over Wal-Mart is a perfect illustration of the intellectual confusion and moral obtuseness of the record companies.

I wonder how many of those who shouted obscenities at President Clinton at the wall raised their voices then against the moral obtuseness of Ronald Reagan at Bitburg?

"It shows a moral obtuseness that is stunning."

Charles Krauthammer's column in The Washington Post the week after the attacks was headlined "We Need Moral Clarity" because, he wrote, "we are already beginning to hear the voices of moral obtuseness."

Just as Krauthammer used moral obtuseness as the direct opposite of today's phrase under study, Bennett used moral equivalence scornfully, dismissing the term as an obfuscator of clarity.

But it does establish, for the umpteenth time, Bell's moral obtuseness.

This revealed a greater moral obtuseness than firing missiles into civilian areas in the middle of a war.

Therein lies the moral obtuseness of much cost-benefit analysis.

At length the utter worthlessness of the boys, their moral obtuseness, and the apparent impossibility of improving them determined the chief of the Mission to purge his establishment from such imps, and they were accordingly turned out.