The tragedy in this play is the tragedy of pharisaical. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
What mouthings of pharisaical moralities — platitudes!. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
This brought forth all the pharisaical austerities in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
Dreyfus case, fast rooted in rigorously pharisaical ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
There was a smirk of pharisaical satisfaction on their faces. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
But we shall see the pharisaical nature of our attachment to Bengali. From Wordnik.com. [The Logos of Bangladesh] Reference
As the Cavalier of the Cromwellian era was a horror to the pharisaical. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Neither was there any pharisaical self-exaltation on the part of the rival. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
Sadly the modern mentality among Christians is much more legalistic, even pharisaical. From Wordnik.com. [The Courage To Be Christian] Reference
It is neither pharisaical to have opinions, nor presumptuous to guide our lives by them. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Those in the world who were unaware of these conflicts posed the engenious question: pharisaical, why?. From Wordnik.com. [UNIVERSITY SPEECH BLASTS CPR BETRAYAL] Reference
One might say that such a question betrays a quasi-pharisaical concern for getting the "rules" down pat. From Wordnik.com. [When the disputed question is which question is to be disputed] Reference
Thus an anathema, in itself a shade pharisaical, is converted into an expression of unpharisaical liberality. From Wordnik.com. [Advertisement for Himself] Reference
Those higher Pharisees who were above him in his own pharisaical establishment, had interfered with the austerity of his worship. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
'The vials of pharisaical wrath will be emptied on our heads, for our share in this business,' he said; 'but I defy every calumniator. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
The labour of Protestantism will not be accomplished by the pharisaical mode of priding ourselves on our faith, and damning that of every one else!. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
Of course every member (if she ever gets as far as this) of every ladies 'club will here draw her pharisaical skirts about her and edge nearer to her neighbour. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
She will not impart that peace, ‘which passeth understanding,’ when she is merely made the stilts of reputation; and respected, with pharisaical exactness, because. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
If, in any case whatsoever, affectation and ostentation are pardonable, it is in the case of morality; though even there, I would not advise you to a pharisaical pomp of virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
This withdrawing from government is pharisaical -- "Shall we, 'weak, sinful men,'" one says, "perhaps even more sinful than the slaveholder, cry out, No Union with Slaveholders?". From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Why should this pharisaical little bird make one feel a criminal?. From Wordnik.com. [The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
"Good-bye," I said, with a recurrence to my smirk of pharisaical pity. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature] Reference
"Obvious from your pharisaical expression, perhaps," he said good-naturedly. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature] Reference
Josephus's reason seems to be no better than a pharisaical notion or tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquities of the Jews] Reference
A little too religious and pharisaical, I always thought; but upright in his dealings. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Nights in a Bar Room] Reference
There is something to me infinitely pharisaical, hypocritical and farcical in this Sunday nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference
It is idle, and pharisaical as well, for us to shrug our shoulders and say this is not a question for the pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
You will be 'crotchety,' 'impracticable,' 'spoiling sport,' 'not to be dealt with,' 'a wet blanket, '' pharisaical, '. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
Then if we reply with the selfish assurance of some of these pharisaical political economists who are criticising me to-day. From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
It would appear that this pharisaical doctrine is a very delicious one, and the most grateful of all others to the worst characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner] Reference
But if we exalt that order into something sacred and solemn, then we become pharisaical and meticulous, and the savour of life is lost. From Wordnik.com. [Where No Fear Was] Reference
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