Knowing ourselves as a shining force for good and as blameless victims of a mass atrocity, maybe we let it all go to our heads a little bit.

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Naturally there is plenty of high style but few hints of low cunning: Wainewright presents himself as a blameless victim.

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She said this could be explained through the "just-world hypothesis, " the belief that people think the world should be good -- and when it is not, especially when a blameless and vulnerable person suffers as a result, someone needs to be punished.

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Plagiarism rates in some countries are horrific (when I was in China I had plagiarism rates of 80% plus as a minimum) but the idea that British students are somehow blameless is ridiculous.

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Simon Pegg (who co-wrote the script) stars as Nicholas Angel, an ambitious policeman consigned, for his own good, to a blameless country town, where he pairs up with an overweight local officer, Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), to chase shoplifters and swans.

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Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara looked pleased to have won the toss as he elected to allow his batsmen to take first use of what transpired to be a blameless wicket at the Beausejour Stadium.

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