Sentences with phrase «in sanctimony»

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.

This show is positively bathed in sanctimony.

While effectively expressing some obvious cynicism about hypocrisy in contemporary television, the film can't grasp the tonal dexterity necessary with such hot - button material, and instead drowns in sanctimony.

Not exact matches

«We've had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the arrogance, the hatred, the pettiness, the fake news,» Loesch said in the minute - long video, calling out «every lying member of the media,» «every Hollywood phony,» «the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents,» and «politicians who would rather let America burn than lose one ounce of their personal power.»

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

People of amassed and sometimes massive socialistic gatherings within and around harborages upon religiously endorsed sanctimonies are creating and establishing fruitions of ethnicities around redundantly articulated socialisms toward morally persuasive narcissisms keeping in line those who tend to believe unquestionably their fatherly figures; the Pastors of doom and gloom fortuities berating those of lesser mindives in moral weaknesses around socially divided consecrations bemoaning the common secularist's motifs.

And please know there isn't a note of sanctimony in that either.

Meanwhile, most of us in the real world are just getting on with it, minus pitchforks, sanctimony, lectures about «cisgendered supremacism» or references to «buggery».

The «fight on the beaches» speech isn't distanced as in Christopher Nolan's post-patriotic Dunkirk, yet Oldman's intensity contains unexpected reserve; it is nobility minus sanctimony.

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?)

When it's among men, however, as in an early scene where Vail visits a mobster and a city alderman to secure testimony, or another where he rejects the sanctimony of former boss DA Shaughnessy (John Mahoney) over Chinese food, Primal Fear lives up to its title's promise to be about the wet places in the male's lizard brain.

Here, bringing the character's pride, ambition, and sanctimony to the surface, he gives the movie its true monster — in contrast to the creature, who is mimed by the indispensable Doug Jones under maybe 20 pounds of makeup and prostheses that he wears as easily as his own flesh.

It's a shame someone of your obvious intelligence has to resort to such a puerile use of sanctimony but I'll try not to lower myself to responding in kind — if you don't mind.

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.

First off, «It is not simply a statement of sanctimony to suggest that members of the legal profession should endeavor to elevate the practice of law above the transient vulgarities of contemporary society,» is one of the more pompous aggrandizements of lawyering I've read in awhile.