Obama is revealing himself to be more like a Woodrow Wilson or Jimmy Carter, pinched and self-righteous.
By castigating the press, the campaign was able to broadcast the family melodrama in a self-righteous manner.
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.
That will exacerbate its self-righteous warring posture and have chilling consequences for the grass-roots civil rights movement inside Iran.
Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.
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.
Or they can cast third-party ballots and spend election night in self-righteous consolation about their roles in granting the government greater power.
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"I think that overall McCain comes across as very self-righteous, angry and disrespectful to Obama, " said Lumiere, who said he normally votes Republican.
When a number of Indonesian workers rioted during a drugs raid on a Malaysian factory last month, the locals reacted with self-righteous indignation.
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.
Some of the forces that the Republican establishment encouraged when its self-righteous hate was directed against Obama have found that venom can be directed at them.
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.
But marching for a cause, whether it be opposition to the Iraq war or the ban on hunting, is about protest, emotion and the pleasures of self-righteous solidarity.
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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Thus, as the affair dragged on, Starr was effectively portrayed as a self-righteous prig, who, lacking any sense of proportion, had gone on a monomaniacal crusade to "get" the President.
For this Colombia deserves much more than questioning by self-righteous individuals such as Gore and Pelosi who have conveniently chosen to judge Colombia as if it were the State of Massachusetts.
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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.
The Islamist organizations should accept that if they disagree with the views in the NYPD document they should do so in a polite, respectful manner, without issuing self-righteous demands or irresponsible charges.
In modern times, we deny the tension, often choosing the self-righteous high horse on one side or the other and color coding our decisions according to partisan loyalties that both belong to Hermes.
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Whatever their links to al-Qaeda, the jihadi groups draw their strength from a common pool of self-righteous anger at what they see as the humiliation of Muslims at the hands of the West.
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.
But what the Russians are absolutely not amenable to, what history has repeatedly shown they reject outright, is a bullying campaign of self-righteous moral condemnation in which they are expected to offer a number of unilateral concessions.
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