Smith was long on wisdom, short on self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit Of Adam Smith] Reference
Their stock in trade is rancid, canting self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Wear no more the old rusty coat of nature and self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Fletcher of Madeley] Reference
It contained a mixture of unbelief, ridicule, and self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory] Reference
DAYS 24 – 26: I'm whipsawing wildly from self-righteousness to despair. From Wordnik.com. [Freegan Ride] Reference
Even the Buddhist monks are so many units of introverted self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
And the immovable self-righteousness of the Stoics has its counterpart in the. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
It is difficult to digest such hypocritical self-righteousness on their part. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
He would have obtained it if he had asked it: his self-righteousness was his ruin. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
It's the self-righteousness to me that's the real crime, and they commit it a lot. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's So Funny About Election 2000? - September 29, 2000] Reference
Among God's real-estate agents, it seems, there is no monopoly on self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archeology vs. Ideology] Reference
His self-righteousness fed fears and uncertainty about what he might do as president. From Wordnik.com. [The Message From 1896?] Reference
His voice grows louder as he rails against the bane of self-righteousness in the land. From Wordnik.com. [Ventura's Shutdown Smackdown] Reference
I had lost another comfort zone of self-righteousness, another "death and taxes" truth. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Broke One of My 'Cardinal' Rules] Reference
In part, the Libyans seem to be irked by Zawahiri's unchecked ego and self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Al Qaeda Family Feud] Reference
They were simply exemplars; their self-righteousness was supposed to be attainable by all. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
They shrink from self-righteousness which would stoop to them, and they hate patronage and pity. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
The worst enemy, in his sight, is self-righteousness; he confesses having had to combat it himself. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
I see the beauty of nakedness to be far superior than to be clothed with rags of self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
It fuels my bitterness, my over-inflated sense of self-righteousness and it makes me a more relevant artist. From Wordnik.com. ['Sons of Anarchy' cast has a few bleepin' words for Emmy voters] Reference
Put them in the mortar of self-righteousness and pound them with the pestle of malice and sift them through the skin of a. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
You indulge spiritual and refined self-righteousness; you are not yet dead to the law, and quite slain by the commandment. From Wordnik.com. [Fletcher of Madeley] Reference
And this is what happens when fame and fortune, when it ` s bestowed upon you, her sense of self-righteousness is very big. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009] Reference
Redemption is compared with the futile systems of self-righteousness which man has devised, the more wonderful it will appear. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Of what value can heathen asceticism and merit-making be while the heart is still barred and buttressed with self-righteousness?. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Over subsequent decades, Winthrop's sermon became the American mission, fired by self-righteousness and fueled by self-confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bacevich's "Washington Rules" and John Dower's "Cultures of War"] Reference
Many more passed by who carried little balloons of self-righteousness with which they expected to rise above the murky River of Death. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory] Reference
Like this is something that we can't tolerate and it does have an element of self-righteousness, right, but it's a standard sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2007] Reference
Like the Parliamentarians of 1900, they laughed at the most extreme sentiments of self-righteousness which at once came over the English. From Wordnik.com. [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference
With complacent self-righteousness they would stand on the outside of the crowd, and, from motives of curiosity, listen to the prophet of. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
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