Obama is revealing himself to be more like a Woodrow Wilson or Jimmy Carter, pinched and self-righteous.
Thus far, Mr Neumann's tale seems unexceptional: pragmatic party elders must suffer self-righteous backbenchers in any parliament.
In addition to their scouring and peeling chores, they were treated to bouts of prayer and self-righteous hectoring.
But to get self-righteous about the thing as Europeans tend to do about the American death penalty is really quite ridiculous.
But fear abounds that they will become the next target of self-righteous politicians, especially if they are seen to be reaping windfalls.
L. Mencken had a field day portraying the self-righteous sobersides of the prairies (who often drank homemade corn liquor behind the barn at night).
My petulant badgering of Audin had been nothing more than second-rate theatrics, which no doubt all of the Afghans expected from an earnest and self-righteous American.
It may well be that Ms Olds's is the sound of a particular voice in contemporary America, one that is at once plaintive, self-righteous and high-toned.
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This is a cold, self-righteous woman who shows little attachment to her husband, feels estranged from her children and treats her mystified liberal parents with contempt.
However self-righteous, her campaigns added badly-needed credibility to Colombia's democracy.
In the alternative view, an elite coterie of self-righteous academics seek not to level the playing field but to dominate it, imposing their particular world view on everyone else.
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Sadly, the enlightened aspects of hip hop are overlooked by critics who are out to satisfy a grudge against black youth culture and are too angry or self-righteous to listen and learn.
Words that were thrown out when groups were asked to describe attributes of a male leader were: strong, arrogant, intelligent, ego-driven, bravado, powerful, dominant, assertive, single tasking, focused, competitive, stubborn, physical, self-righteous and direct.
There is nothing worse than a formerly promiscuous aunt now on a crusade for moral rectitude playing the harpy and scold in the sick room, elbowing the doctor aside to upbraid the patient with inappropriately timed, self-righteous sermons.
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Industry critics will pounce on this contradiction as offering evidence of the unhealthy impact of pharma marketing, while proponents might highlight the benefit realized by patients and argue that most medical guidelines, including those articulated in UpToDate, are scripted by self-righteous academic elitists who reflexively shun both novelty and industry.
He is impressed by everything there that is overarching, awe-inspiring, intimidating, overpowering, crushingly colossal, or incomprehensibly strange, and his crabby, self-righteous misanthropy, which comes through in every frame, rises to apocalyptic dimensions: learning of the perils to polar ice caps posed by global warming, he foresees with barely repressed glee the extinction of humanity through climate change.
It had the trendy wind of righteous self-improvement at its back.
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Through the decades, however, the masses have responded most intensely not to calculated appeals to their self-interest (though that didn't hurt) but to selfless, if not self-sacrificing, crusades for what is seen to be just and righteous.
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