Sentences with phrase «of sanctimony»
Calling them «so - called good government groups,» he said they needed government oversight themselves so they couldn't «hide their donors behind walls of sanctimony.»
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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.
Even at the seminary one had to guard against the constant threat of sanctimony, whereas the ADA people were exuberant, skeptical, and energetically committed, after all, to democratic action.»
It's this kind of sanctimony which is why diving is such a fundamental problem in this country.
And please know there isn't a note of sanctimony in that either.
«I think that so often kids can feel paralyzed by writing because it feels like they have to know something, that there has to be some level of sanctimony, and that they have to have solutions or ideas to offer the world or their teacher or their peers.
When cornered at parties by artists who describe their work as «political» I usually find myself eyeing the nearest escape route before my face is melted off by the glare of sanctimony emanating from their eyes and the crypto - messianic implication that — as Donald Trump also claimed during his 2016 US presidential campaign — only they can fix the world's problems.
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.
The targets of good - government groups have leveled such criticisms: During his 2010 State of the State address, former Gov. David Paterson memorably proposed creating an independent ethics commission with oversight of «so - called good government groups, who hide their donors behind walls of sanctimony.»
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.