Sentences with phrase «for sanctimony»

There is, I should add, no room for sanctimony in such observations.

There is no room for sanctimony by any of us.

Not exact matches

The only things keeping Dawn of the Dead from soaring are a quartet of characters (the doomed dad, the slut, the slack - jawed yokel, the cross-dressing émigré) who function as distracting padding — and the sort of squeamishness in regards to hardcore gore that our culture of creeping sanctimony has made par for the course since the grand guignol of the original.

(And in the wake of Columbine, Craven toned down the violence significantly for Scream 3 — why the sanctimony, when Scream and Scream 2 are still readily available on videostore shelves?)

Suffice to say that «The Book of Henry» has no compunction about milking child abuse, terminal illness and family grief for cheap emotional uplift and the kind of spiritual sanctimony that brings the unwelcome specter of «Pay It Forward» to mind.

Though name - checked Roman Polanski's violation of Samantha Geimer is indefensible, I'm loathe to the wellspring of adolescent sanctimony surrounding the episode; and for a while, Hayley is so insufferably self - righteous that the picture looks as though it will concentrate the brunt of its commentary on the hysteria attendant to allegations of child molestation, credibly channelling the worst tendencies of organizations such as Perverted Justice through that most moralistic of creatures: the pubescent female.

Is this really the forum for religious sanctimony?

As for my blatant snarking, I do it in part for the purpose of avoiding sanctimony — the practice of appearing on the surface respectful or pleasant while harboring disguised foulness.

True, because they couldn't afford Indulgences they had to live less sinful lives to ensure going to heaven, but I am sure the Pardoner would argue, with sanctimony, that was good for them.

And then there's the The Rude News which calls Avatar: «The Passion of the Christ for liberals... They are out in their sanctimony - Sunday best extolling the virtues of the aliens over their white, imperialist and capitalist oppressors.

Save the sanctimony for church.

Though he avoided widespread excoriation for that, this latest revelation has the publishing world choking on its own special blend of schadenfreude and sanctimony, blaming Lehrer's fall on the arrogance of stardom or the scrutiny afforded by the Internet.