In the United Kingdom I was called everything from a "moralist" to an "anti-fat crusader" approvingly.
He had made his name as a reformer and a moralist, shutting down pornographic theatres and unlicensed gambling parlors.
But moral stands are risky and have a way of bouncing back against the chief moralist in nasty ways.
But how did the arch-moralist of the Kosovo war become the West's arch-pragmatist in the aftermath of the Chechen war?
Mr Ferman was a moralist but he was aware that the movie business sought a smooth passage for its expensive products.
Unsocialized but erudite, a moralist, a theorist, a swamp-bred crank, Laroche fascinates the melancholy Orlean, who feels her life lacks a consuming passion.
Perhaps the old leftwing coalition of moralist progressives and Democratic Christian groups was just a more explosive mixture than anything we have today.
Both as a writer and as a moralist, he regarded the exploration of abstract forms and ideas as dubious, valuing messy humanity instead.
Amid wide-eyed descriptions of punters at work, familiar from many previous such works by enthusiasts, the reporter-turned-moralist adopts an increasingly prim note of dissent.
He is also a moralist, story-teller and preacher with a fervent belief in the transformative, indeed redemptive, power of the inventions he writes about.
In his eyes, Greenberg was a moralist in art who laid down rules about how a proper modern painting should look: as abstract and flatly painted as possible.
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