moral rigidity

The focus is on love lost, not the hypocrisy or moral rigidity of the times that forced men and women to live secret lives.

Increasingly, too, there is defiance of the social and moral rigidities imposed by the clerical leadership.

Listening to Andrus now, Owen felt again his immense moral rigidity.

An audience weaned on prime-time fare has little appetite for More's brand of moral rigidity.

In any event, among adults the moral rigidities of hell and damnation were rapidly disappearing, except in the families of the Dissenting sects.

"Even if this Lal Mindrat is the worst human monster since the Shadowmasters themselves, you have to consider what your moral rigidity can cost the rest of us," I told Sleepy.

It emphasizes the piety, and perhaps moral rigidity, of the country's religious founders-evident in the sculpted Chapin's proud pose, certain stride, flowing cape and hefty Bible, as well as his assertive use of a walking cane.

He was a physician, a man of science who healed the bodies of those who came to him seeking help, and yet he was also a man of great moral rigidity, just as dedicated to saving the souls of those around him.