Only the naive and sanctimonious among us don't know that.
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Sanctimonious politicians lecture us every day Americans about responsible legislating.
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Now, fellow-descendants, we endure aMoment of charismatic indecencyAnd sanctimonious greed.
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During Barack Obama's presidency, such news triggered sanctimonious outrage among Republicans.
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What's really shocking is the smarmy sanctimonious hypocrisy of it all.
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The furniture seemed innocent, sanctimonious, a coven of children wrongly accused.
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In the Labour corner is the querulous, wooden, sanctimonious Jeremy Corbyn.
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You can be sanctimonious all you want, but that's his real legacy.
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He was called sanctimonious, dangerous, hypocritical, and evil every time he appeared.
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Though rather sanctimonious, Mr Biden is rightly known for civility and patience.
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" One of the evaluators found him "sanctimonious" and another "stubborn and immovable.
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Either that or I'm sanctimonious and have a holier-than-thou attitude.
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She's certainly more likely to exercise wise judgment than Seattle's sanctimonious city officials.
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" As their members struggled with poverty, they mouthed "pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities.
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When stolid Tom Brokaw was the prevailing type, Olbermann was angry and sanctimonious.
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"The sanctimonious self-righteous retroactive nostalgia about process we can dismiss," he said.
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Yet instead of retreating from the remarks, she doubled down with increasingly sanctimonious defences.
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" I'm pretty sure they'd reply, "Yes, you stingy, sanctimonious weirdo, of course we can.
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We see much male bonding, pep talks, sanctimonious sermons on secularism and virtue signalling.
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I'm not going to mince words here: This is a sanctimonious and shortsighted attitude.
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But so did his demeanor — which, D.C. veterans say, was often sanctimonious and rude.
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Tom Lehrer considered it "the most sanctimonious song ever written," but I like it.
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For decades, its films were known for their often sanctimonious insistence on ethical conduct.
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The "shameful shenanigans" of "sanctimonious hypocrites" shall find no quarter in Pishevar's righteous world.
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In writing, Mr. de Blasio is by turns sensitive and sanctimonious, aggressive and insecure.
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The film is withering in its contempt for sanctimonious hypocrites who peddle feel-good nonsense.
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Messing, meanwhile, retweeted several messages that criticized Sarandon, including one that slammed her "sanctimonious principles."
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His challenge: to show that he was not the sanctimonious Bible-thumping Southerner many feared.
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"Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy," he added.
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" He continued, "Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy.
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The role is in need of some serious rebranding; fatherhood rarely receives such sanctimonious sympathy.
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The writers couched all the potentially saccharine or sanctimonious dialogue in their believably earnest characters.
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But the mainstream news media long ago forfeited any right to be sanctimonious about that.
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Instead, Wynn uses a different tool to humorously undermine her most sanctimonious right-wing targets: seduction.
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I told myself that was because it was invariably deployed by sanctimonious people when losing arguments.
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There are enough video clips of sanctimonious rantings by these folks to fill an archival battleship.
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There are no sanctimonious plotlines about how accepting Michael is, or how progressive Eleanor must be.
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That is not to suggest the novel is a catalog of horrors or a sanctimonious lecture.
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Kimmel, who once performed his late night duties with a wink, now leads the sanctimonious pack.
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A wayward GOAT returning against a champion one division up is hardly worth getting sanctimonious over.
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"He was probably the most puritanical and probably the most sanctimonious of Joe Kennedy's boys," Tye says.
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Mafee (Dan Soder) hopefully being a bit less sanctimonious now that he's with his Axe Cap buddies.
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That they are suddenly giving a sanctimonious lecture on ending stigma and listening to data is laughable.
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It encourages—even requires—us to be obsessed with our own health and sanctimonious about other people's.
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"The sanctimonious and humorless finger-wagging of nanny state progressivism in one tweet," wrote conservative Bill Kristol.
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I thought these were the folks that the sanctimonious progressives loudly profess to be looking out for!
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Broidy is not an outlier in the sanctimonious pool that is GOP men with skeletons in their closets.
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Facebook follows Apple in banning Infowars, giving up the game after weeks of sanctimonious lectures about free speech.
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You know, these are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of rock stars.
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For some on the left, that faith was always a joke, a sanctimonious alibi for imperialism and plunder.
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Then at the Google and Facebook side, they think Tim is sanctimonious, and that he's lecturing him. Yeah.
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The narration of personal struggle, whether it's Peter or Mary Magdalene or Judas, doesn't drift into sanctimonious piety.
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On camera, Goodell can come off as tight, smug and sanctimonious — a politician, and not a particularly compelling one.
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I gulped the last of my wine and half-drunkenly entered the sanctimonious space of Germany's newest white cube.
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Pepper another person with continuous questions and you risk coming off like an investigator or a sanctimonious, smug interpreter.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi's sanctimonious reference to Mr Trump's border-wall as an "immorality" sounded too much like Mrs Clinton.
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He's a new form of social media police, a sanctimonious stick figure, who thinks you should be like him.
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On Saturday, the president launched a new broadside against Comey, calling him "sanctimonious" even as he applauded McCabe's firing.
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She strongly defended the decision to destroy the videotapes while under the particularly sanctimonious questioning of California Democratic Sens.
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The advertisers who pulled commercials from Ingraham's show want to appear all sanctimonious for siding with an insulted teen.
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We all make mistakes and no journalist, in this era of reduced copy desks, should be sanctimonious about typos.
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" But he cautions against the "sanctimonious anger wielded by inequality's critics," because inequality "cannot be resolved by identifying villains.
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I hope we're going to do that in a way that's not too sanctimonious or too on the nose.
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" Jeffress called Pelosi "sanctimonious" after her comments and likened her to a "pyromaniac with a match in his hand.
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One can't help but notice that none of their sanctimonious chatter ever brings any real solutions to our challenges.
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But for them to all of a sudden be sanctimonious as if, they don't, never seen such a thing before.
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It's long past time to stop the angry sanctimonious rhetoric and do your jobs, or go home and stay there.
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In no area more than foreign policy has the special genius of the American character for sanctimonious homicide expressed itself.
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"Liberals love to be so sanctimonious, holier than thou, but they're really hypocrites," said Fox's Sean Hannity on Oct. 10.
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The article ridiculed her as naïve, sanctimonious and incoherent, but it also captured something real about her earnestness and motivations.
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The sad irony is that it is liberals who are running the sanctimonious and moralistic crusades to end bullying in America.
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Before we developed dating standards, we fumbled around with smelly Dungeons and Dragons nerds, awkward religious virgins, and sanctimonious vegan drummers.
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Conventional wisdom holds that de Blasio is a joke, a sanctimonious dork held in widespread contempt by the city he governs.
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But he is a hated figure among many western conservatives, who view him as sanctimonious and trying to impose public morality.
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Not only that, given an opportunity on Sean Hannity's radio show to deny he dated teenage girls, the sanctimonious Moore didn't.
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This may signal waning support for the Islamist agitators, notably the sanctimonious Mr Shihab, who is caught up in a sexting scandal.
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And policymakers from both parties think that, as the world's attention shifts to Asia, whining, sanctimonious Europeans deserve less of their time.
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" Mr. Young's lawyer, John N. Iannuzzi, said his client had left the club peacefully and had encountered a group of "sanctimonious louts.
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" That's not always true, and sanctimonious hypocrites inhabit the left as well as the right: Harvey Weinstein participated in a "women's march.
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Sanctimonious critics are blasting Donald Trump today for what they say was excessive fearmongering in his GOP convention acceptance speech on Thursday night.
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But Carter's sanctimonious moralizing and acknowledgement of national malaise wore thin, and he was booted in favor of a sunny nationalist, Ronald Reagan.
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Was it a group of young people agitating the sanctimonious, or was it hate speech that endorsed violence, raping women, and gay bashing?
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McCarthy's moral absolutism appealed to the sanctimonious Bobby, who was an unapologetic supporter of McCarthy even after the latter's ignominious fall from grace.
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And while it's easy to feel sanctimonious about watching sore winners curse out their vanquished foes, it's hard for those feelings to last.
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But don't think for a second that he and his powerful, often sanctimonious team are going to roll over and accept a ban.
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Despite the government's sanctimonious assurances, there was never a serious police inquiry into the perpetrators of these attacks, and the attackers were never apprehended.
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" Pelosi said she didn't want to hear Republicans "all of a sudden be sanctimonious" as if they had "never seen such a thing before.
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" He said, "It's run by a bunch of sanctimonious bloody Americans who wouldn't know rock and roll if it hit them in the face.
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Hitchcock roared with laughter going to bed at all these sanctimonious sods who were afraid to say, 'Why have you given me blue cauliflower?
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First, the president is being attacked by a sanctimonious crowd that has routinely denigrated the living conditions of the countries Trump was talking about.
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"He crosses the Missouri River, and in that sanctimonious tone, talks about what he doesn't like about Donald Trump," Kaufmann said at the time.
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He was fired on Saturday, and immediately cast as either a martyr for justice or a sanctimonious self-promoter, depending on one's partisan inclinations.
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Patrick Stewart's character gives some sanctimonious advice to all us knowledge seekers and peekers, but it's easy to sermonize when you're wearing the CEREBRO.
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"Indeed, their sanctimonious posturing is hypocritical, given their bluster is maliciously intended and fans anti-government sentiment in Hong Kong and incites lawlessness," it said.
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Even if everything we think we know about health is accurate (and it's not), do we really want to be a culture of sanctimonious smartasses?
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But Venus in Cancer is also very playful and enjoys engaging in role-play and fantasies—some that could make Venus in sanctimonious Sag blush!
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"He crosses the Missouri River, and in that sanctimonious tone talks about what he doesn't like about Donald Trump," state GOP chairman Jeff Kaufman said.
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To get sanctimonious over that is ridiculous, especially when you have a player on your team who has repeatedly done things that are actually unsportsmanlike.
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For those less favorably disposed toward him — on the left as well as the right — it's easy to see how Comey's earnestness can seem sanctimonious.
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Maybe that sounds like a load of sanctimonious hooey, but it seems to me that the applause greeting Ms. Haddish's choices should be a sign.
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Lawyers issued open letters pointing to flaws in the prosecution's argument, and state media outlets published sanctimonious editorials calling for the court to show humanity.
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And I think what most people look at all this and need self-pitying winging from the media and think what a bunch of sanctimonious idiots.
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Except it wasn't a sideshow after all, and the original decision — high-minded or sanctimonious, depending on one's point of view — came to look plain wrong.
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He has frequently been labeled "sanctimonious" as he preaches the importance of strong ethical leadership and about his concern for the direction the country is headed.
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BOSSIE: You know I think Congressman Gohmert asked the question because of the sanctimonious, arrogant way that Peter Strzok was conducting himself before the members of Congress.
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" Eventually the argument escalates to the point that Ravenel calls Eubanks a "sanctimonious bitch" and demands Conover's (or perhaps playboy Shep Rose's?) "head on a godd— stick.
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It all plays into the very widespread perception that Duke basketball is a sanctimonious and pompous enterprise that loves to project a decidedly holier-than-thou vibe.
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Mr Bentley omitted to mention that detail in the sanctimonious statement he made in the old state house chamber, beneath a plaque commemorating Alabama's secession in 1861.
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The sting would be felt all the more acutely as the GOP establishment and the center-left intelligentsia tried to outbid each other in sanctimonious self-righteousness.
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Acosta, the liberal-activist-posing-as-objective-journalist wrapped in sanctimonious hypocrisy, demanded that Sarah Sanders say the press is the not the enemy of the people.
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Also on Thursday, John McCain — who has delivered sanctimonious lectures on the importance of "regular order" in the Senate — declared his support for the G.O.P. tax bill.
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While interviewing Judy Nichols, a Republican living outside Houston, Texas, Pelosi invokes the sanctimonious way politicians have responded to natural disasters in various parts of the country.
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I think many journalists go into this profession with a similar sense of idealism, though of course we have to keep our guard up about being sanctimonious.
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Reading what he did which did hurt Hillary Clinton politically, even if that wasn&apost his intention, reading his sanctimonious decision making processes is very hard for me.
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In the wake of my death I know you will make all the usual sanctimonious noises and call upon the police to hold a swift and thorough inquiry.
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"Rather than molding a generation of mature, well-informed adults, some schools are doing everything they can to create a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes," Sessions continued.
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"Rather than molding a generation of mature, well-informed adults, some schools are doing everything they can to create a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes," Sessions said.
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Some staffers think their White House correspondent was fighting the good fight, while others have rolled their eyes and grumbled that he is coming off as too sanctimonious.
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But must every incident become a drama pitting sanctimonious outsiders against one another in an ugly debauch of hate, name-calling and vituperation against the already wounded survivors?
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But the benevolent smile lurking under the pre-World War I mustache is deceiving: The man is a sanctimonious prig who siphons all the fun out of life.
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But I will avoid this sanctimonious instinct and declare coldly: Israel had a clear objective when it was shooting, sometimes to kill, well-organized "demonstrators" near the border.
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But plenty of liberals are nostalgic for a less sanctimonious era, where, at least in certain cosmopolitan precincts, being amusing and interesting were more important than being upright.
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"It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power," he wrote.
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It's music to go to war to—you must be man enough to survive the physical assault of the mosh pit; you must be angry and sanctimonious enough, too.
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" To another journalist, who wrote that "blaming the messenger is the hot new thing everyone's doing," Musk replied , "Oh hey another sanctimonious media person who thinks he's above criticism.
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While he stopped short of calling for Clinton's impeachment, Lieberman branded the President's behavior "immoral" and "disgraceful" in a speech that many of his colleagues viewed as unnecessarily sanctimonious.
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He'd made no attempt to conceal his politics, and knowing he considered Donald Trump synonymous with "egomaniacal sanctimonious evil," I was anxious to hear from him in the aftermath.
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But this time, Mr. Crowe loves his subject too well and too blindly, producing a lecture in Rockology 101 that is dramatically flaccid, burdened by respect — and, yes, sanctimonious.
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" Writing in the National Board of Review Magazine, the critic Harry Alan Potamkin called "Joan" religious but not sanctimonious, ending his review by stating: "It is a transcendent film.
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Grace Hemingway is often seen as domineering and emasculating; Ernest claimed to hate her for her sanctimonious condemnation of his early fiction, and blamed her for his father's suicide.
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This is the guy they voted for, the damn-the-torpedoes dude who tells it like it is, never apologizes and stuffs it in the face of sanctimonious liberals.
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"Body and Soul," from 1925, stars Paul Robeson in a dual role as a struggling inventor and his twin brother, a faux minister who hides crimes beneath sanctimonious airs.
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The Big Oil lawyers also note that: The sanctimonious climate change alarmism only gets worse when you throw in the rhetoric some of the political leaders have used recently.
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This Game Of Thrones news is wild, even for the sanctimonious "book readers," myself included, who believe they already know everything there is to know about the world of Thrones.
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It sums up the good and the bad about old-1968ers and their like: progressive and well-meaning, but sanctimonious, a bit too comfortable and too reflexively defensive of 1968.
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As Rebecca sees it, her mother is a whirling dervish of sanctimonious griping fueled by furious disappointment, and the song tells that story beautifully while wringing punchlines out of hurt.
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Once their interrogations have been repeatedly blunted, most will content themselves with a few minutes of raised voices and sanctimonious talking points, hoping to make the highlight reel at MSNBC.
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These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of rock stars, and they will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it.
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Meanwhile, right-wing lawmakers are scrambling, sanctimonious and pathetic, to distance themselves from their own hideous progeny, clearly hoping to salvage some personal credibility and perhaps even save their party.
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We reduced our carbon emissions far more than the sanctimonious Europeans, who have not come anywhere close to meeting their greenhouse gas emission promises under their precious Paris Climate Accord.
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He went on to warn his audience not to be too "sanctimonious" about the tough job that "those folks"—the CIA interrogators, now—were doing in Iraq after September 11.
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Back then, I remember feeling like sanctimonious internet activism was the dumbest thing in the world, so I got a real rush from watching the video's creator fall apart so publicly.
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Lila, who has prostituted herself—not in itself a bad thing, in Gary's reckoning—has her head shaved by a sanctimonious local barber as punishment for sleeping with a German officer.
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The press may be flawed, it may offer bias, it may be self-righteous and sanctimonious and highly critical, but it is serving the exact purpose that the country's Founders wanted.
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Some of these women will be humiliated by the failures of their flesh, but the real shame belongs to sanctimonious zealots in Washington who don't have a clue what they're doing.
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Some of that money gave her a multi-million-dollar head start in the presidential race, and some of her critics privately bristle at what they call her newly-sanctimonious approach.
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As she lampoons a modern master, not to mention the long-standing cliché that painting is a drinking-man's club, Donegan also mocks the early-nineties obsession with sanctimonious identity politics.
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In a sanctimonious 1994 essay in The New York Times, a critic wrote that the language and attitude of "Def Comedy Jam" was "reprehensible," barely mentioning the quality of the performers.
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As Sarai Walker says, when someone is comfortable with her (or his) fat body, it is like giving permission to every sanctimonious person to come out of the woodwork with abject criticism.
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Mr Allen seems to want to make a broader point about the readiness of well-meaning people to subscribe to second-hand political rhetoric and the hollowness of the sanctimonious middle-class.
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It's a memoir in that these are things that I remember, but I would feel like this sanctimonious, self-righteous asshole if at 34 I was like, 'And here's what I've done.
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Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona has become famous for sanctimonious speeches denouncing the latest outrage, but he votes with machine-like consistency in favor of the president's destructive agenda and unqualified nominees.
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The expression "to bear witness" has become something of a sanctimonious trope, a cheap excuse to observe (and in the worst cases, exploit) other people's tragedy with a voyeuristic and complacent eye.
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" To Coates, Trump's "ideology is white supremacy in all of its truculent and sanctimonious power"; to pretend otherwise is to treat "white labor as noble archetype, and black labor as something else.
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If you write or say something controversial or more likely dumb, you should not be surprised, aggrieved or sanctimonious if a lot of people on social media tell you you're an idiot.
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On his Twitter feed, he called the writer Pankaj Mishra, who'd written an essay in The New York Review of Books attacking him, a "sanctimonious prick" and said he'd happily slap him.
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It's understandable that President Obama didn't want to take that chance even as it's excruciatingly annoying that he has continued to make sanctimonious and self-serving statements about the Syrian tragedy all year.
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So Trump was right to put America first and reject the idea that climate change will be solved by government bureaucrats at the United Nations or by sanctimonious but shallow promises by politicians.
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A sanctimonious tale about the evils of big power corporations, erratic electricity supplies and corrupt officials, "Batti Gul Meter Chalu" is one of those films that does its cause more harm than good.
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Then he gave a sanctimonious speech denouncing partisanship and divisiveness, and declared that while he voted to allow debate to begin, he would never vote for the existing Senate bill without major changes.
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If this were any other year, the opposing party's response to sharp-tongued attacks at the convention rostrum would be staged reactions of shock and sadness amid sanctimonious calls for more civility in politics.
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I mean, he said, you know what, I don&apost think I have to meet with these sanctimonious Euro yahoos who are going to tell me about how important the carbon offset credits are.
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The most sanctimonious on the right believe that cultural appropriation is a meaningless phrase that willfully ignores intent; that people should have the right to celebrate what they find beautiful without criticism or abuse.
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And it builds on itself, and it becomes more sanctimonious and convicted of its own righteousness, and it kind of leads to places that I think are unhealthy, even if the cause is justified.
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As for the old-school Jedi Order fans had longed to see, this movie was just the beginning of Lucas' long campaign to change their minds on that sanctimonious old order of Force wielders.
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There's been a steady drip of articles stating that teenagers are over alcohol—that being a teen today is the same as joining a sanctimonious monk-cult, obsessed with organic food and extreme yoga.
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His unsparing, bracing attacks on Mr. Bush are now closer to common wisdom, and in our fragmented culture, where righteous voices and preaching to choirs are common, Mr. Cross doesn't sound so sanctimonious anymore.
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In a series that stood out for seeing complications in even its least sympathetic characters, she is a straightforward nightmare: sanctimonious, moralizing, devious and rude to the point that it suggests a social disorder.
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Negga throws herself into a sprawl across Claudius's throne, climbs into Ophelia's lap, twists her limbs like she's fending off demonic possession as she crab-walks her way in front of a sanctimonious Polonius.
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The sometimes-sanctimonious but always well-meaning guy who nudges everyone to just do a little more – like doing the dirty work of telling a room full of celebrities to stop taking private jets.
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He attracted the same voters that George Wallace won in neighboring Alabama — white Southerners embittered by social and political changes that they felt were being forced upon them by sanctimonious, out-of-touch elites.
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But there is more fun to be had at Acne than "just right" jeans and leather jackets (the label's stalwarts) to place in a room with white walls and a single, sanctimonious fig tree.
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I remembered the effect plays about gay life — good, bad, teasing, campy, hysterical or sanctimonious — had on me as a Junior Gay back when gay rights weren't much further along than trans rights are now.
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When newspaper reporters I know saw it and raved about how it reminded them why they do their job, I assumed it would come with a heavy, sanctimonious undercurrent of nostalgia for the Good Old Days.
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So it's not surprising that Marine Le Pen's nationalist — and by nearly all typical metrics, politically incorrect — bid for the French presidency is receiving the same sort of sanctimonious yet breathless media coverage around the world.
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S. PAUL POSNER New York To the Editor: To equate both sides in the gun debate — claiming that one side, the liberals, is sanctimonious while the other, the gun advocates, is obstructionist — misses the political reality.
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Reportedly bullied by his young director into a serious performance, Vincent Price is truly frightening as the sanctimonious sadist Matthew Hopkins, a historical figure who used torture and blackmail to "discover" Catholic witches among the peasantry.
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During this week's White House press briefings, sanctimonious reporters lined up to ask press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders question after question about the rift and about whether or not Trump is "mentally fit" to run the nation.
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Batty and Supey themselves, meanwhile, perpetually mistake their narcissism for high-minded public service, and are encouraged to do so by the cynical and sanctimonious institutions that are nominally in charge of things in Gotham and Metropolis.
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" Ms. DeMoro, of the nurses' union, expressed outrage over an email sent to Mr. Podesta by Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, who vowed to combat the nurses' "high and mighty sanctimonious conduct.
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Pip (a musk-trailing Lena Hall, of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch") and her partners, David (Austin Smith) and Freddie (David McElwee), show up bearing hash brownies, sanctimonious life philosophies and a load of multidirectional sex appeal.
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But right on cue, an army of sanctimonious Trump critics took to social media and even newspaper web sites to attack the President-elect's tweet and use it as proof that he is a reckless and scary fascist.
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The bad news is the second senator would be former senator Evan Bayh, whose reflexive and often sanctimonious Blue Dog-styled centrism frustrated grassroots Democrats for two undistinguished terms before he chose not to face voters in 2010.
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The fatal flaw of classical Aristotelian tragedy later came to be interpreted as a moral flaw, and Losing Earth takes up this idea in a sanctimonious afterword pleading for more focus on the "moral dimension" of climate change.
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Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, borrowed a page out of President Donald Trump's playbook this week when he took to Twitter to criticize "sanctimonious journalists," and proposed building a website for the public to rate media credibility.
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But for "Chewing Gum," Ms. Coel invented some vivid secondary characters, and she gets crucial support from Shola Adewusi as Joy, Tracey's sanctimonious mother, and particularly Susan Wokoma as Cynthia, her catastrophically jealous and equally sex-starved sister.
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As their sanctimonious In Memoriam slide show plays, the dates of the fallen cheer captain's birth and death flash onscreen, bringing a sickly realization more frightening than any kill: These teenagers were all born in the year 2000.
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But at the same time, I observe no shortage of ideological combatants over "PC culture"—capable and privileged people—who prefer self-righteous outrage or sanctimonious snark to the arduous task of sharing and contesting knowledge in good faith.
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She bears an uncanny resemblance to Pierre's widowed mother, the sanctimonious and domineering Mary, whose unnatural attachment to her son—she calls him "brother" and he calls her "sister"—suggests incest, twice over (both mother-son and brother-sister!).
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Ms. LeCrone, recycling her well-worn patterns and phrases, presented one lethargic ballet after the other, while Ms. Schreier, whose bland choreography is overly embellished with Balanchine touches — a raised hip, a flexed foot — had an oppressive, sanctimonious air.
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For a guy who claims to be a savvy businessman, President Trump is just another penny-wise, pound-foolish scold who gets a sanctimonious high from shortsighted policies that will prove costlier in the end than funding Planned Parenthood.
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My gut told me that Christine Blasey Ford was telling the truth when she said Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teens (he denies this) But before a congressional committee, Kavanaugh grew bombastic and sanctimonious in his denials.
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It's maddening to watch men who've flirted with outright fascism — like former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka, who wore the medal of a Nazi-aligned Hungarian group to one of Trump's inaugural balls — act like sanctimonious defenders of the Jews.
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It's just like, at some juncture, you have to reconcile with the fact that you're an imperfect person and that your efforts to fix another imperfect person read as you projecting, you avoiding, and worse, you just being sanctimonious.
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" On why Trump doesn't call out China for human rights atrocities: "He doesn't want to be sanctimonious or pedantic to President Xi ... He knows that Xi is a great leader and so he doesn't want to meddle in the internal affairs.
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From the Free-Range parents to the Tiger Moms, the Hot Mess Moms, and the Perfect Parents with their sanctimonious status updates on Instagram, all of them feed the idea that kids these days are growing up woefully underprepared for adulthood.
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Perhaps the left soured on him because he is a singularly ham-handed politician, who possesses all the native charm of a Howard Schultz, the billionaire Starbucks founder who is trying to win the presidency one sanctimonious tweet at a time.
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There is definitely such a thing as reacting badly to a bad joke, or even a racist joke, and becoming this caricature of a sanctimonious, pearl-clutching, oversensitive, liberal killjoy who can't fathom why anyone would find a racist joke funny.
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And to me, if Harvey's behavior is the most reprehensible thing one can imagine, a not-so-distant second is the current flood of sanctimonious denial and condemnation that now crashes upon these shores of rectitude in gloppy tides of bullshit righteousness.
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" (This review garnered more than 50 comments, nearly all of them agreeing.) Another popular review called the book "sanctimonious twaddle" and asked what Hollis could possibly offer women who have been through real hardships: "What about women that have lost a child?
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" Bertke has hardly been shy about controversy or promoting his belief that "free speech is under threat" because "the pendulum of society has swung left too far, and it's largely thanks to sanctimonious social justice warriors and narrative-over-fact third wave feminists.
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I've long believed that the great gulf in religion is not so much from one faith to another, but rather between sanctimonious cranks of any creed who point fingers and those of any religion who humbly seek inspiration to live better lives.
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It demands a nearly sanctimonious dedication to avoiding that—even if it means you will text your friends less, take a while to reply to emails (whether social or work-related), and miss out on the things your family posts on social media.
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They accused him of delivering "sanctimonious lectures" that dripped with sarcasm and of excoriating Mr. Clinton on trivial matters involving sex because the committee lacked evidence that he had committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" of the sort that had driven Nixon from office.
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"How ironic—no, how perverse—that the USA, which has been so sanctimonious in its condemnation of Swiss banks, has become the banking secrecy jurisdiction du jour," wrote Peter A. Cotorceanu, a lawyer at Anaford AG, a Zurich law firm, in a recent legal journal.
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And yet, the burlesque of an entire exhibition premised on producing over a hundred large canvases in less than four months may hold anti-establishment charm for younger painters frustrated by the sanctimonious atmosphere of MFA programs that propel them into an unresponsive art market.
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In such surroundings, Signora Agnelli (who, in fact, created a ''minimalist'' décor years before it was the fashion) would have as readily longed for something humdrum or seemingly inappropriate like wicker, something witty or even fake, to take the curse off such sanctimonious sterility.
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The idea that both games mimic character studies adds a dose of realism to the message they're sending; but at the same time they engage players with intuitive platforming so as not to get bogged down with premise—in turn steering clear of sanctimonious lecturing.
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Amnesty International's revelations that arrested Turkish "opponents" of the regime had been hogtied, pressed together like sardines and raped drew special outrage from American academics, ever eager to tout their sanctimonious bona fides by standing in the forefront against human rights abuses wherever they materialize.
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But Palin's brawling brood runs so wild around the state she once governed, in a way that is so contrary to her evangelistic, sanctimonious homilies on family values, that it seems only Christian to advise her to study the Obamas to see what exceptional parenting looks like.
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The point is that while liberals treating some minority groups in America as "the other" tends to come from a place of sanctimonious condescension, that kind of "otherizing" from conservatives seems rooted in a fundamental desire to cut certain groups of people out of the American project.
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Sanctimonious James ComeyJames Brien Comey85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy.
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Mirroring Playboy's descriptions of topless blondes, they described him as a sanctimonious good boy: "Sensitive and sweet, Adam recently told reporters at the In The Land of Women junket that his mom taught him never to break up on bad terms," the caption read, according to ONTD.
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Sanctimonious James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy.
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We asked Buttigieg about all sorts of stuff ... what his "Veep" would look like, whether we can be sanctimonious about Russian interference in the 2016 election when we invaded countries and installed brutal dictators around the world, whether celebs help or hurt candidates and ... his most cherished object.
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Its the over-the-top depiction of bloodthirsty blondes decked out in Brooks Brothers and Lilly Pulitzer, sharpening their machetes while spouting sanctimonious pseudo-religious nonsense about their rights is absurd and beside the point — the evils of privilege are the banal kind, after all — but also darkly cathartic.
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The chief story line follows Jimmy, a longtime hustler who sought to live the straight life as a lawyer, just like his successful, sanctimonious brother, Chuck (Michael McKean), who died at the end of Season 3 but was omnipresent (and in a final, karaoke flashback, physically present) this season.
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So no matter the sanctimonious recriminations in the aftermath of the program's public disclosure and the one-sided, partisan report from Feinstein's Senate Intelligence Committee released in December of 2014, it doesn't change the fact that there was bipartisan support for coercive techniques at the onset of the GWOT.
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I feel a little self conscious about something, where just like ... When you ask these questions, we try to answer them, but I hope it doesn't sound holier than thou or sanctimonious, because it's like, we're from Hollywood, which God knows is as vacuous as any place on earth, right?
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When the ad was released before the game, the automaker came under a heap of criticism from social-media users who accused the company of being sanctimonious and not practicing what it preached — particularly because it has an all-male board and its senior management team has only two women.
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These individuals must be experienced, battle-tested adults given that one of the long-running knocks against the current administration has been its habit of assigning grossly unqualified, often sanctimonious 20-something year olds, plucked from the ranks of the political campaign, and tasking them with the formulation of international policy.
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People find him because of viral YouTube clips, where he dismembers sanctimonious ideologues with a mike-dropping command of fact and logic; they stay for two hour lectures on psychology, mythology, and religious texts — there are more than 400 hours online — on their new-found quest for understanding and meaning.
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And a juiced ball is better, surely, than the sanctimonious and hypocritical drug policy of two decades past that vilified players for making choices—choices deleterious to their health, no less—that they had every incentive in the world to make, while the league profited handsomely off those choices and punished players for them simultaneously.
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During the same speech on Tuesday, the 71-year-old Sessions criticized universities for "coddling" young people and said schools were silencing conservative voices to create a "generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes," adopting lines of critique many Republicans use to argue that college campuses are too accommodating, specifically, to liberal-leaning students and ideas.
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Mike BraunMichael BraunRomney shocks GOP with vote to convict GOP senators reject punishing Romney for impeachment vote Senate GOP drives stake through talk of Trump censure MORE (R-Ind.) told reporters that Schiff's remarks were "sanctimonious," adding that while his address would be received well in his Los Angeles-based district, it would not be in fly-over country.
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Tony meets a succession of people who deserve to be told off, and then he tells them: slovenly and batty co-workers; sanctimonious charity solicitors; unhelpful servers; a schoolyard bully; a parade of overweight characters (a favorite target of Gervais' standup); his oafish therapist; the dim townspeople he profiles for the paper; a lazy postman; and lazy store clerks.
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Elected officials and other architects of the recession are more likely to dismiss people struggling to find their way in a time of depleted opportunity as "sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes," to borrow a phrase from United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions, speaking at an event for conservative high school students in July, than to recognize their own culpability.
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"Let our just cause give pause to those who would ever dream of ever emulating the shameful shenanigans of these sanctimonious hypocrites who fling filings and letters de haut en bas: when it is we who have the higher moral ground and our letters and filings will hail down upon their platforms, exposing them as bitterly barren barons of moral turpitude," Pishevar wrote.
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Let our just cause give pause to those who would ever dream of ever emulating the shameful shenanigans of these sanctimonious hypocrites who fling filings and letters de haut en bas; when it is we who have the higher moral ground and our letters and filing will hail down upon their platforms, exposing them as bitterly barren barons of moral turpitude.
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Just as I am tired of NFL owners shooting off their big mouths, particularly shooting them off in Texas, like the Houston Texans' sanctimonious owner Bob McNair comparing players' behavior to "inmates running the prison," or the Dallas Cowboys' ornery owner Jerry Jones kneeling with players one week, then threatening to bench them if they do it again the next week.
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In the hands of Miller, who possesses both a strikingly inventive palate and a gift for storytelling, this mission seems not remotely sanctimonious, only thrilling; after eating a tender rhombus of lionfish from Florida, I found myself poring excitedly over a pamphlet he'd handed me about the urgent need to consume the monstrous-looking species, which has invaded waters around that state.
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Let our just cause give pause to those who would ever dream of ever emulating the shameful shenanigans of these sanctimonious hypocrites who fling filings and letters de haut en bas; when it is we who have the higher moral ground and our letters and filing will hail down upon their platforms, exposing them as bitterly barren barons of moral turpitude.
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They confirmed that when oligarchs own media companies there are massive conflicts of interest and it showed just how hollow so much of the sanctimonious preaching from the Brian Stelter types over at CNN are when they tell us that the people at Bloomberg News, the Washington Post and the New York Times are the fairest people on this earth.
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Zach Woods: I think it's a tricky thing, like, you guys make fun of the "Let's make the world a better place all the time" people, and then if you get a show that's too shrill or sanctimonious, then you sort of become the person you're parodying a little bit, like if it becomes an implement of moral instruction, as opposed to a satirical show.
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Senators Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeMcConnell, allies lean into Twitter, media 'war' Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE and his ilk (who, let's not forget, have long been #NeverTrumpers), climbing high on their sanctimonious horse to say Trump's comments were just about the worst thing that's ever been said about women?
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Or is it worse the Democratic party bought and paid for the Russian lies that were never verified, and yet, were regurgitated by the self-righteous, sanctimonious, delusional media in this country that absolves itself as something they are not, as they claim to be unbiased and fair when they are nothing but the cheerleaders and crusaders for all things that only matter to the Democratic Party and liberal causes?
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But he has also wandered into more exotic territory, offering up a mix of bad policy ideas (elite colleges should admit as many legacy students and children of rich donors as they want) and sanctimonious tone policing (liberals should feel ashamed of themselves for not allowing the president to revel in the murder of ISIS's chief lieutenant) with the unyielding, over-the-spectacles glare of an imaginary Concerned of Brooklyn Heights.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (R-Ariz.), who couldn't win reelection to the seat he currently holds, offered an intellectually starved but sickly sanctimonious lecture comparing Trump to Joseph Stalin.
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To reward yourself for enduring weeks of sappy commercials, kid-friendly re-runs, sanctimonious specials and the general rose-colored glasses mentality of the season, curl up with a bottle of wine (or several) and revel in these films that aren't afraid to take on the holiday spirit from an adult point of view: Bad Santa, 2003 The Billy Bob Thornton-led dark comedy about a scammer posing as a mall Santa is the perfect refresher when your cynical side is fed up with artificial holiday cheer.
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Yet he gives each of them a distinct character; under Mr. Nézet-Séguin (and the revival stage director, David Kneuss), these impressive singers found their individual dramatic voices, especially the beguiling, pure-toned soprano Erin Morley as the chatterbox Constance; the mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as the benevolent Mother Marie, who longs for martyrdom with her "daughters" but is denied it; and the soprano Adrianne Pieczonka as Madame Lidoine, the new prioress, who arrives with a slightly sanctimonious air, only to find inner strength and heroism.
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"When you have a president who says, 'I could shoot somebody on 85033th Avenue and nobody would care'; when you have people saying 'Beat them up and I'll pay your legal fees'; when you have all the assaults that are made on Hillary Clinton; for [Republicans] to be so sanctimonious is something that I really am almost sad for myself that I have gone down this path with you because I don't think it's appropriate for us to have the fullest discussion of it," she said at a Capitol press conference on Thursday.
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