Sentences with phrase «by sanctimonious»

The sheer outrageousness of its attitude is enough to make Heathers a very welcome relief in a field dominated by sanctimonious and second - hand virtue.

Not exact matches

When a clerical and theological style becomes stiff or sanctimonious, it can not be taken seriously by people engaged in life - and - death struggles.

I refer rather to the slow, sanctimonious extermination of the Indians, the system of occupying the land (Faustrecht), the competitive methods of the leading capitalist groups, the annexation of California along with the retrieval of Texas — all this and much besides show that the United States has always been ridden by violence, though the truth was covered over by a legalistic ideology and a moralistic Christianity.

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

By the way, I do not believe that all evolutionists are sanctimonious jerks — why don't you try not being so bigoted?

I am so, so sorry to see all these people taking for granted by self - impressed, sanctimonious fools who instead thank imaginary beings.

However by committing very human muddled thinking by way of logical fallacies, they demonstrate that their religion is no more than an indulged fantasy and that they are no more than a bunch of sanctimonious buffoons!

There is no way that this terminology is in any way meant to be taken seriously, even by the most sanctimonious and sensitive of lactivists.

I'm disgusted by Schneiderman supporters using 9/11 to get all sanctimonious and score (or attempt to score) a cheap political point.

However, somehow I can imagine the smug and sanctimonious faces of Milliband, Harman etc saying no to an early election because «it's not required by law» or «Labour need time to fix the country».

I can not believe that all those attorneys who are Senators (especially sanctimonious jerks like DeFran) sit idly by and let staff people submit public documents to the Comptroller that are blatantly fraudulent.

By the way, the mayor reached a new low in sanctimonious, pandering bullshit this weekend in Harlem.

«It is ironic that much of the state's brief passionately spews sanctimonious verbiage on the separation of powers in the governmental branches, and clear arm - twisting by the Executive on the Legislative permeates this entire process,» Judge Robert Wiggins wrote.

«It is ironic that much of the state's brief passionately spews sanctimonious verbiage on the separation of powers in the governmental branches,» Justice Wiggins wrote, «and clear arm - twisting by the Executive on the Legislative permeates this entire process.»

If they're not full of untrue rumours started by Downing Street about your sex life, they'll be full of sanctimonious Tories pretending to feel sorry for you.

The bucketloads of sanctimonious message mongering ladled on by director Peter Hyams still can't disguise the sheerly mercenary basis of this 1986 project, a wholly uncalled - for sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001.

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.

Mattie's wry, sanctimonious narration doesn't make the leap to the screen barring some voiceover (from older Mattie, played by Elizabeth Marvel) in the prologue and epilogue.

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.

The biennial — curated by Thelma Golden, John G. Hanhardt, Lisa Phillips and Elisabeth Sussman — was deemed sanctimonious, ruled by critical theory and words like «identity» and «transgressive» (Microsoft Office's spell - check still doesn't acknowledge the latter).

- 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.

When they pulled the U.S. out of Kyoto, they went out of their way to assert — in sanctimonious tones that were believed by none — that the U.S. would refrain from obstructionist behavior.

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».

Even more pathetic is the sanctimonious open letter by Michael Mann and six colleagues who suggest that Heartland merely got its comeuppance for cheering and publicizing the release of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) emails that sparked the Climategate scandal.

«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.