Sentence examples for mores from high-quality English sources.

• One reason is that sexual mores have slipped.

• He was never just a chronicler of suburban mores.

• It wasn't just an act of rebellion against conservative mores - it was a fight for equality.

• …Joyce—of contemporary lower-middle-class existence, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a report of northern working-class mores.

• The caustic mores of the internet don’t help.

• Wharton’s book features a similarly spirited heroine and deals with class, scandal and social mores.

• In his latest cover, Adrian Tomine, an astute observer of social mores, finds the humor in our increasingly digital search for love.

• Sumner saw folkways and mores as essentially conservative and doubted the ability of members of the society to change them consciously.

Use mores in a sentence.

• Atwood continued talking about changing mores—the supplanting of the panty girdle by nylon tights, and the consequent innovation of the miniskirt.

• People accused the photographer, a young man with dirty, bleached hair wearing a sweatshirt that said “Violent Femme,” of following the mores of Instagram.

• …ferito nell’onore (1972; variously entitled The Seduction of Mimi or Mimi the Metalworker, Wounded in Honour), a satire on sexual hypocrisy and changing social mores.

• Of course, comportment mores have changed since 1650, and today, to be shaped like a pear is not a symbol of aristocracy but a life sentence, one to be avoided at all costs.

• He introduces a university graduate who remains wedded to the mores of the Camorra because of her family’s involvement: “you can’t exactly claw the blood out of your veins, can you?”

• Mores are more coercive than folkways: relatively mild disapproval follows an infringement of a folkway; severe disapproval or punishment follows the breaking of mores.

• As Richard finds out, the colonial authorities set about imposing western moral mores around the world - systematically destroying indigenous traditions which had existed for centuries.

• …adaptation of Richard Yates’s novel Revolutionary Road again paired Winslet and DiCaprio, this time as an unconventional couple attempting to buck the restrictive mores of 1950s suburbia.

mores sentence examples

• Primitivism similarly rejected social and conventionally moral dàos (mores), but has its own conception of a natural, pre-social, typically intuitive, way of life that supports rustic, agricultural, village life.

• And Nature, that sprung-lidded, still commodious steamer-trunk of tempora and mores gets stuffed with it all: the mildewed orange-flowers, the female pills, the terrible breasts of Boadicea beneath flat foxes’ heads and orchids.

• They add: "Well-established law makes clear that even a 'devout Christian' would not be subjected to hatred or contempt by ordinary readers, applying today's societal mores, because of a report that he dated a popular actress and gave her gifts that included alcohol."

• The measures enacted by Chege’s department have earned rare applause from human rights groups in Kenya, which have fought alongside sexual and tribal minorities in a country that is both largely conservative in its social mores and politically divided along tribal lines.