Sentences with phrase «as sanctimonious»

In the weeks following the Guggenheim's opening, Ivan would see Dick again at the premiere of Pull My Daisy, the grainy black - and - white film by their friends Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank, who'd cast Dick as a sanctimonious bishop in this quintessentially Beat film starring Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky as themselves.

For most of human history, these images have been held up as sanctimonious objects of reverence.

The farcical elements are much too loaded to provide any real fun, and the Stones come off more as sanctimonious, politically correct left - wing prigs than enchanting.

People * love * to judge the actions of big companies, and get as sanctimonious as any discussion we've dissected here.

The category of «piety,» understood not as sanctimonious behavior but as living all of one's life before God, may be due for renewed attention, we found.

I am partly constituted by many past acts of becoming that involved extreme exploitation, as well as sanctimonious justification of that exploitation.

Skeptics might write off Obama's Bible talk as sanctimonious window dressing, aimed at no higher purpose than connecting with churchgoers in the purple and red states.

Your response, albeit in love, as you propose, still strikes me as sanctimonious.

Not exact matches

Page has criticized the US sanctions on Russia as «sanctimonious expressions of moral superiority,» and he praised Rosneft CEO Sechin in May 2014 for his «accomplishments» in advancing US - Russia relations.

The Baptists are acting sanctimonious, as usual.

A patient's bedside is NOT the place to preach or to wag a sanctimonious finger, and if you encounter one who does, ask him / her to leave, but don't throw them all out with the bath water (or holy water, as it were)...

I think this is the problem with the modern church today... we should not be in «circles» Also, saying that you will acknowledge someone as your brother or sister in Christ based on YOUR perception of whether they are actually saved or not IS sanctimonious.

As I have always said, the worse side of religion is its hold on the taboo switch — its ability to turn on guilt using sanctimonious triggers with threats of exclusion, death and hell.

It is sanctimonious ingratitude to fault Jesus for his cry of dereliction, just as it is naïve to seek to deny that he was indeed left derelict.

Ridding the world of the poison of religion is the only way we can move forward as a species and away from intolerance, ignorance, greed, wish thinking and this destructive sanctimonious, arrogant mindset.

Jefferson, as is well known, believed that every generation had the right «to begin the world over again, and that: «Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man,» and it was he that felt it would be a good thing to have a revolution every 20 years.45 He was contemptuous of those who «look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

The sanctimonious moral preening offered via social media from such figures as Apple's Tim Cook and the historically amnesiatic Hillary Clinton are both laughable and inexcusable for their dedication to spreading flavor - of - the - moment distortions.

Essentially, everything that Jesus taught in the Bible is just as He said it would be: the religious are sanctimonious and think more highly of themselves than they ought; lack of love & lack of forgiveness abound; we are all like the Pharisee who thought he was God's gift to God.

The amount of acrimony here with Christian's bashing atheists and being sanctimonious, as well as, the atheists trashing people of faith and demeaning what they hold sacred isn't very productive for anyone.

Santorum the Sanctimonious does not have the right to judge but he sets himself up as the Grand Inquisitor:

In their stead: banality on wheels, granny inversions (some phrases sound as if they were written in 1905), and a garrulous, sanctimonious address to landscape that makes Wordsworth in his youthful dotage sound exciting.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

He always came off as being falsely sanctimonious.

I'm sorry, but I disagree that this advice is going to do anything but make the other person angry and embarrassed and make things worse, as well as make * you * look sanctimonious, even if that wasn't the intent.

A list of «advice» like yours, with a recommended response to another mom doing something as simple as saying she's tired being to brag about how awesome your parenting skills are, is nothing more than a way to lose friends and alienate people, while playing into the sanctimonious, holier - than - thou stereotype of crunchy moms.

So many sanctimonious parents on here who seem to forget that there are different methods of raising your child and it is ok to not follow the same routine as the next parent.

But let's not pretend that he has somehow let us down as a country or any more of that sanctimonious guff.

These could include, but are not limited to: matching your belt to your handbag, LinkedIn, eating local, hot yoga, paleo diets, the Harry Potter books, Kombucha, «trending,» voting in the primaries, podcasts, ponchos - as - fashion, the Ballet, Bret Easton Ellis, hashtags, fair - trade coffee, the Cloud, other people's children, sanctimonious Christians, understanding China's economy, #catsofinstagram, The Voice, your father's new wife, and / or Burning Man.

Each cast member sends themselves up perfectly — Rogen as the noncommittal, avoidant slacker, Baruchel as the uppity hipster actor who pretends he's «above» LA, the sanctimonious and overly - nice Hill, the earnest but buffoonish Robinson, the misanthropic McBride, and so on.

Poe is portrayed as a mildly eccentric (he is given a pet raccoon) and sanctimonious outcast, whose creations have largely been forgotten and seem unlikely to be eclipsed by him.

To live distinctively as a disciple of Christ does not mean that we carry ourselves in sanctimonious, somber obedience, grimly waiting for eternal rest.

Few things are as sweet as the sound of the the sanctimonious loser / nonentity we're - an - org - not - a-com titheads at Adbusters drowning in their own...

- We observed that our CAGW scare - mongering, peer - reviewed, sanctimonious authority - figures never chose to LEAD BY PERSONAL EXAMPLE AND FROM THE FRONT in the fight against demon - carbon but always seemed to have a hot - babe, CO2 succubus or two or three on the side (and quite brazen about the whole deal) even as they demanded carbon - chastity for us peasants.

I could care less if Monckton believes devoutly in Jesus, but if he wraps an entire article in a religious frame and pops it out filled with sanctimonious crap an ironically accusing scientists of being «religious» as his main theme, I'm certainly going to comment on it, just as I would if I were refereeing a physics paper and the same thing occurred.

As usual a left - leaning, sanctimonious would - be world - improver who knows that his own economic models are inadequate but prefers to believe that the climate models, doing a far more difficult task, are somehow good enough to declare thermageddon and that to challenge that idea is unethical and hence not even worth time discussing.

In notes for the speech distributed beforehand, Mr Howard said he chose the title «in reaction to the sanctimonious tone employed by so many of those who advocate... costly responses to what they see as irrefutable evidence that the world's climate faces catastrophe».

Thinking about hypocritical «Alarmists» I see on this thread and around the web makes me think of Moliere's words, as he was sensitive to sanctimonious, bombastic hypocrisy.

As nasty as they are sanctimonious, the more active and vociferous members of the wind cult have no difficulty in justifying the destruction of pristine landscapes; the dismemberment of once cohesive, rural communities; the creation of toxic waste lands in -LSB-..As nasty as they are sanctimonious, the more active and vociferous members of the wind cult have no difficulty in justifying the destruction of pristine landscapes; the dismemberment of once cohesive, rural communities; the creation of toxic waste lands in -LSB-..as they are sanctimonious, the more active and vociferous members of the wind cult have no difficulty in justifying the destruction of pristine landscapes; the dismemberment of once cohesive, rural communities; the creation of toxic waste lands in -LSB-...]

«I chose the lecture's title [«One religion is enough»] largely in reaction to the sanctimonious tone employed by so many of those who advocate quite substantial, and costly, responses to what they see as irrefutable evidence that the world's climate faces catastrophe, against people who do share their view.

The only trouble is, they illustrate their point with a video that I can only describe as a teensy bit sanctimonious.

«What one person sees as having the strength of moral convictions is just sanctimonious intolerance to another.

Not only was that a total lie (I had two kids at home at the time and I do rather like them), but I came off so sanctimonious and unauthentic that I'm sure the interviewer trashed my resume as soon as I walked out the door.