Sentences with word «sanctimony»

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

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

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.

After decades of moral sanctimony from the Liberal Democrats, we can now be absolutely clear that when push comes to shove they're happy to drop child poverty and the job guarantee.

The hypocrisy of such sanctimony is that I, Tonya is every bit as hooked on sensationalism as the tabloid vultures who set up shop around Harding's house.

Boyle added, jokingly, «I have discovered there is little that can not be overcome by enough Sufi patience, Irish irreverence, and Canadian sanctimony.»

The preacher was often robed, and he usually preached at high volume and with maximum sanctimony.

If you don't think there are any jokes in the Bible, you're probably reading it with too much sanctimony.

With the number of English players who have a heavy record of diving; just see Rooney, Gerrard, Ashley Young, Welbeck, you'd believe some would be sympathetic to this mind - set but none would ever approach the issue so openly or even comment on it save for claiming it the practice of the devil as they would no doubt be crucified by sanctimony personified; the «British Press».

It's this kind of sanctimony which is why diving is such a fundamental problem in this country.

So in the proverbial Mommy Wars, I'm meeting angry comments or self - satisfied sanctimony with kind laughter.

Ginia Bellafante: «(A) t a moment of national turmoil, when mayors are regarded as the great hope of progressive politics, Mr. de Blasio seems to have little understanding of how his self - contradictions and sanctimony erode his authority.»

A privileged sanctimony clings to this movie that is not fully recognized by its filmmakers: After all, not every distraught new mother can afford a self - help guru.

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.

Perhaps, but the overriding effect is one of Bruce Almighty adhering to the romantic comedy formula with a sickening dose of abhorrent sanctimony despite the picture's proclamations of the sanctity of free will.

You've got to hand it to director John Wells, though: despite a maddening lack of imagination, August never once approaches the dull sanctimony of Ordinary People or the smug self - satisfaction of American Beauty, two of the Oscar - feted family sagas the film could have easily chosen to emulate.

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.

Odd that I've achieved both snark and sanctimony at the same time somehow.

Such symbolic eco-gestures by wealthy, first - world, urban eco-elites represent eco-narcissism and virtuous sanctimony on a truly deplorable, selfish and naive scale.

Climate sanctimony yields to economics as Germany's political leaders struggle to form a government.

Jason Smathers, Husch Blackwell: «I've dealt with several writing coaches ho present information w / a put - upon attitude or fake sanctimony — not this.

De Blasio may be smart to tap into the general disgust with state government, but his outburst also displayed the mayor's penchant for sanctimony.

This show is positively bathed in 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.»

«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.»

But we all have magical thinking — many Christians just try to make a virtue out of it and cover it in sanctimony.

We as Christians need to stop being bullies, ramming our sanctimony down the throats of every unbeliever.

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.»

Solution: Stop using any scripture to support your ethics, politics, sanctimony or sense of meaning.

So, all the sanctimony had been driving me crazy this week.

If you parse through all the sanctimony of the other three majors and just want to see a really quality championship, here's often the best place to look.

Stone Hawthorne did her part by channeling her dry and sarcastic nature into formulating a retort to all the sanctimony.

I suspect women considering a homebirth won't read what you have written due to the snark and sanctimony.

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.»

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.

Suspense and intrigue are replaced with sanctimony and cliché in this unsatisfying portrait of a reporter