Nothing. The sanctimony of the left is no different then the sanctimony of those who supported South Carolina in the Nullification fight or those who supported segregation in the Arkansas and Alabama confrontations.
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Enough with sanctimony and moralism from the failing news media!
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Editorial So much for all that sanctimony about fiscal responsibility.
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In the diaries, Brown chafes against the sanctimony of American newsprint.
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It's a handmaiden to smugness and sanctimony, undermining its own goals.
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At the same time, it's a relationship free of sanctimony about itself.
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During that time, his frequent statements reeked of sanctimony and righteous indignation.
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There are glimmers of social commentary about gender, race and liberal sanctimony.
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Sanctimony is so easy when you have no skin in the game.
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It had every element of a developing crusade: outrage, pity, and sanctimony.
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In 2000, a comparatively halcyon era, it punctured conservative sanctimony with cartoonish glee.
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Over time, even the soft lighting appears to wallow with her in sanctimony.
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And so I think that Director Comey, I just find the sanctimony of his book, now, I have read the book in preparation for some interviews, and I went back to it tonight to look through the levels of sanctimony.
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I believe millennials will be even more put off by hypocrisy, sanctimony and smear.
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While U.S. hypocrisy does not justify other nations' crimes today, sanctimony undercuts Washington's credibility.
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People who share his values and priorities let's stop the sanctimony and religious gymnastics.
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And then, on Tuesday, did it again, with even less subtlety and more sanctimony.
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The Yankees do oblivious baseball sanctimony better than any franchise east of St. Louis.
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As Delbanco admires the abolitionists, and slights slavery's terrors not at all, his occasional revisionist musings seem to stem from his horror at the military slaughterhouse, his wonder at whether it could have been avoided and his wariness of sanctimony, including Yankee sanctimony.
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But it is particularly shocking in cricket, which has always professed a certain moral sanctimony.
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Only many of those righteous notions also reeked of upper-caste sanctimony and class privilege.
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The era of sanctimony has, in the past few years, given way to a dawning skepticism.
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But Morgan's never been one to let dialectical coherence get in the way of his sanctimony.
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"He's the Jewish version of Santa," I explained, a touch of sanctimony creeping into my voice.
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And too often resentment conquers reason, anger blinds us to answers and sanctimony passes for authenticity.
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There's sort of a spasm of sanctimony that has overtaken the mainstream media in recent years.
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It's a wonderful city, made so by its unique culture of tolerance, inclusiveness and punishing sanctimony.
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Working class voters recognize the difference between the sincerity of Sanders and the sanctimony of Warren.
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Therefore, I can say, with all due sanctimony, that I never ever did such a thing.
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The sanctimony and censoriousness of the social justice internet is like a machine for producing red pills.
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Even in private, donors said, he can be prone to sanctimony, disinclined to adjust his television-ready populism.
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But Gem's tasting-menu format, with its sombre, methodical coursing, can feel refined to the point of sanctimony.
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"And too often resentment conquers reason, anger blinds us to answers and sanctimony passes for authenticity," he wrote.
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Some senators have embraced a combination of oversight sanctimony and implausible ignorance about U.S. military presence in Niger.
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The Sparrow is loathsome, wrapping in sanctimony the same crass power craving that animates many of the show's characters.
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With tiki, this serious approach must be coupled with joy: If it smacks of sanctimony, you're doing it wrong.
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On DVD American insouciance melts Russian sanctimony in Arthur Freed's 1957 production "Silk Stockings," the jauntiest of Cold War movies.
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There is such a quick assumption of ill will and an increasing sanctimony and humorlessness that can often seem inhumane.
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They receive most of the attention, however, because they carry the aura of sanctity (or else sanctimony, one or the other).
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When it comes to the phenomenon of Donald Trump, you have to give him this: sanctimony is not foremost among his sins.
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But even the path to that punishment was lined with sanctimony and arrogance from Coach K. Allen was not benched during the game.
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SpontaneousWe listen to our readers, we don't condescend to them, and we reject the artifice and sanctimony of news delivered from on high.
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I believe that we should resist the human temptations of external blame and sanctimony, and focus, at least today, on introspection and grace.
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Such is the reality The Boys reveals behind the idolatry: greed and grift and outright homicide, all the while preaching exceptionalism and sanctimony.
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Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports pointed out that many players from Morgan's era took amphetamines and saw "sanctimony and hypocrisy" in his views.
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Without sanctimony or condescension, she gives us a woman who was prodigiously gifted, weirdly literal and totally in charge of her strange self.
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Henry leaned over the table, his posture reminiscent of their father's, though more fearsome in its bequeathed sanctimony, like some kind of gargoyle.
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Further, the play is all too successful in replicating the sententiousness and sanctimony of recovery jargon, at least as overheard by an outsider.
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" The Tory grass roots, Mr. Moore said, are enraged by left-wing sanctimony, and "long for something that is more subversive and different.
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There is definitely an almost hysterical sanctimony now about the way individuals will be condemned for being not enough this, or too much that.
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"Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year," Haberman tweeted to her more than 650,000 followers on Tuesday.
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Yet Strange Fruit tries to have its cake and eat it too, and ultimately falls under the weight of both artistic sanctimony and execution.
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The city was then nurturing a so-called antifolk scene, which sought to dismantle some of the piousness and sanctimony of the folk revival.
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This absolutely cursed take was overshadowed by people pointing out that Sorkin's movies are wildly fictionalized, making his sanctimony more than a little rich.
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Even the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, while criticizing his own country's moral sanctimony, blasted Mr. Trump's unilateralism as deeply damaging to the alliance.
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Still, praise for oats has tended to have a whiff of sanctimony: Eating them is, as Quaker Oats taught us, the right thing to do.
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I won't mimic the consensus and call Arcade Fire a great band undone by sanctimony when they've been bombastic and heavy-handed since day one.
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Okay, let's cut through the sanctimony and the phoniness for a second and talk about how most people, especially most male people, talk about beauty queens.
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He brought to his long work none of the nastiness that marks the jurisprudence of Thomas or Alito or the sanctimony that Gorsuch's nascent portfolio suggests.
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They see the parallel ascents of Xi and Trump as cause for celebration, and accuse "white lotuses," their term for Chinese liberals, of sanctimony and intolerance.
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Annette de la Renta, a board member at the Met and the New York Public Library, doesn't get why all this inspires such fuss, such sanctimony.
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But Mr. Freeman's approach has drawn fans, particularly among customers who are either unfamiliar with, or disdainful of, the sanctimony of other high-end coffee purveyors.
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"We are currently in a lawsuit with the governor's office to fight for the voice of the unborn child," he said, his speech ringing with sanctimony.
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Neither of those dishes comes with a hint of sanctimony, or even of prescription; in fact, the menu suggests adding crispy (real) chicken to the salad.
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He's a man more given to scholarship than sanctimony, a doctor who has memorised the entire Koran and quotes the poetry of Muhammad Iqbal at great length.
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Think of all that, then imagine the sanctimony that will ensue when it becomes commonplace for people to just be Alone Together in a room wearing headsets.
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Particularly given my experience with my own acquaintances who have approached their own salvation with sanctimony, I was skeptical it could work, and I asked as much.
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In "Our Lady of Alice Bhatti" (2012), Hanif excoriated violence against women — "a sport older than cricket but just as popular" — but with slapstick instead of sanctimony.
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If we're going to re-evaluate our history, we need to re-evaluate all of it, not just those parts that gratify America-hating progressives' sense of sanctimony.
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Other readers have pegged Abbey as an unrepentant chauvinist and possessing more than a smidgen of sanctimony, wishing to impose on others his own rigid strictures for living.
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And I think all of them put their own self-interest or self-conception, their own sanctimony ahead of what were normal procedures that should have been followed throughout.
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It's an almost impossible part: Marya is a nonpareil of Christian patience, radiating moral and practical virtue, yet Buckley somehow gave life to the role without drooping into sanctimony.
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The next time someone suggests that bottled water is better than tap, however, save them the sustainability sanctimony and just warn them about the risk of smelly poop water.
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Sessions's sanctimony about the rule of law also demands a second level of criticism, because it came a mere 11 days after the president's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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The rapid team collapse was head-spinning news not only in Australia but also among worldwide fans of cricket, a sport that arrogates to itself a particular moral sanctimony.
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RON WOLK Warwick, R.I. To the Editor: Nicholas Kristof suggests that the left drop the sanctimony and the right drop the obstructionism in moving toward intelligent approaches to gun violence.
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So are the bellowing, boisterous attacks against it, led by British comedian Ricky Gervais whose Golden Globes opening monologue going after Hollywood sanctimony is still the talk of the town.
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These forms of resistance take aim at liberalism's own forms of social-justice sanctimony, which have smothered academic life and permeated notionally apolitical arenas from late-night comedy to sportswriting.
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From the early days of Silicon Valley's Internet-era revolution, as engineers, designers, and financiers began to recognize the potential of their inventions, sanctimony was a distinct feature of the revolutionists.
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It is not, like many of these shows, biographical; it does not apply an invented story to an existing song catalog; it does not pour sanctimony and Brylcreem over the top.
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"Trump is president today because the left got drunk on its sanctimony, on its moral superiority, and actually put down these people, and in many cases quite unfairly," Mr. Steele said.
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Various private Facebook groups, which alumni on all sides of the issue had used to spread news and rumors for months, were devolving into self-reinforcing pools of sanctimony and even rage.
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Insults are hurled and characters are assassinated within a cascade of name-calling, personal threats, intimidation, bullying, outright lying and sneering false sanctimony — and that was just during the latest presidential debate.
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He was at Davos last January shortly after Giridharadas tweeted a crack about the surfeit of hollow corporate sanctimony there—phrases like win-win, do well by doing good, and conscious capitalism.
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I grew up in a conservative rust belt suburb and hated it, and I loathe populist sanctimony that treats my stultifying hometown as more authentically American than the vibrant city I escaped to.
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From the ad:We've had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the arrogance, the hatred, the pettiness, the fake news… we are done with your agenda to undermine voters' will and individual liberty in America.
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For a period immediately following the revelation, a certain amount of wild rage and sanctimony is permissible, but after that the rigorous work of exploring the meaning and motives of an affair must begin.
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Elevation to the highest form of the game is viewed as a privilege that must be earned, as if the format would be belittled, and the sanctimony of statistics damaged, by adopting an inclusive approach.
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"These are countries where the legal system, the bankruptcy code, the sanctimony of the rule of law are still under development, in a very positive way, especially in China," Wintrob said at a news conference.
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If the left can drop the sanctimony, and the right can drop the obstructionism, if instead of wrestling with each other we can grapple with the evidence, we can save thousands of lives a year.
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But as the Democratic Party has moved in one direction and the Republican Party shifted in the other, our political debate has been overwhelmed by sanctimony and callous disregard from both sides for the other.
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Neither embracing nor completely skirting the sinkholes of the recovery narrative — among them sanctimony, sentiment and backslapping triumphalism — Mr. Van Sant (adapting Callahan's 1990 memoir of the same name) marshals a number of countervailing strategies.
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But no one has ever truly outdone Vanessa Redgrave who pulled off what might be a once-in-history feat of sanctimony, at once praising herself, and at the same time praising others for praising her.
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Yet at a moment of national turmoil, when mayors are regarded as the great hope of progressive politics, Mr. de Blasio seems to have little understanding of how his self-contradictions and sanctimony erode his authority.
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But many of them bristle when the movement is invoked to justify liberal positions on gay rights, economic equality, health care and gun control, which they often view as cynical efforts to wrap bad ideas in sanctimony.
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"Don't assume that everyone knows what a hotep is," he told a student who had written about an encounter at a barbershop with an exemplar of the type, a man whose Afrocentrism was mixed with regressive sanctimony.
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But while the Starks are all finally learning that their father was a doofus who thought that honor would save them, they're also honing a hard-edged morality that's much more appealing than Ned's sanctimony or Frey's nihilism.
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Doctors at the time could scarcely leave sanctimony at the door to perform pelvic exams — "it was too indelicate, in its assumption that a doctor would perform a physical examination," writes Flanders — though plenty did recommend maternity corsets.
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With a handful of states using the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to deprive women of their right to terminate a pregnancy, "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" arrives as a fervent reminder of the consequences of such cynical sanctimony.
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Instead, he has spent much of his post-"Soldiers" career arguing against the very tenets of historical memory: what started out as a legitimate campaign for reparative justice, Cercas feels, soon degenerated into a pageant of sanctimony and opportunism.
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But the difference is that both women (neither of whom achieves character status) are part of the movie's wider sanctimony in recreating Edward R. Murrow's battle in the 1950s with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his televised anti-Communist witch hunt.
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A place of sanctimony and twitching curtains, where the Garden Club and the Missionary Ladies Society occupy idle minds and hands, Salty Creek is a haven for matrons like Ruth (Diane Ladd), who can't help getting up in everyone's business.
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One of the film's most memorable tag lines — "When everyone's super, no one is" — is considered by some as welcome pushback to the kind of liberal sanctimony long buried in Hollywood films; others see a barely concealed case for elitism.
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While "Last Stop," adapted by Cheryl L. West from Matt de la Peña's Newbery Medal-winning picture book, occasionally veers toward sanctimony, there's no arguing with the power of its score, which includes rap, R&B, gospel and Latin influences.
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Someday, when Russian hackers have exposed all our email accounts and posted the contents of our hard drives online, and everyone's private proclivities and foibles can be easily cross-indexed with her or his public pronouncements, maybe easy sanctimony will come less easily.
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The response from the 53-year-old Mr. Moore, who had just lost his own effort to win a judgeship, was infused with the kind of crusading righteousness — his critics would call it sanctimony — that would later fuel his rise to national fame.
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Steve Smith, the national team's captain and one of its greatest players ever, admitted that he concocted a plan to illegally tamper with the ball during a series in South Africa, outraging fans of a sport that has always professed some moral sanctimony.
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It was a matter of establishing rapport, being a reliable partner and exhibiting a special understanding of the burden of world leadership the United States carries and avoiding any hint of sanctimony or disrespect — qualities that too often infect Canadian thinking about America.
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Trump will likely be president for at least four years; but starting now, and through the eventual end of GOP rule, we never have to take Republican sanctimony at face value again, and their phoniness ought to be a commanding narrative of the Trump era.
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However, it's also very illuminating, because when you finally live in a bit more of a world you wanted to see—where people are arguing about really serious things, and shit is happening—it turns out that you have to live with an incredible quantity of sanctimony.
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A hearing starring Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who presided over the start of the Russia probe, degenerated Thursday into a theatrical display of sanctimony, mock outrage, all-out partisan bickering and character assassination as grandstanding members on both sides of the aisle played to the TV cameras.
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Delbanco now dispels sanctimony differently, by reviving forgotten figures such as the St. Louis minister and educator William Greenleaf Eliot — not coincidentally, T. S. Eliot's grandfather — who hated slavery but tolerated the fugitive slave law and, until the bitter end, held out hopes for a conciliatory gradual emancipation.
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While the Never Trumpers may sleep well at night under a blanket of sanctimony, their efforts to poison the well for progressive candidates in the days leading up to the nation's first caucuses and primaries run counter to honoring the democratic process they claim to so deeply revere.
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The conservative journalist Brian C. Anderson ran with this idea, publishing an influential article in 2003 (and later a book) on the subject arguing that a young cohort of "South Park" Republicans would emerge from a culture war that the left, through its overreaching sanctimony, was already busily losing for itself.
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It was something of a shock to learn that the supposedly dignified independent counsel — who was once on a shortlist for the Supreme Court — had delivered a 445-page bodice ripper, a trite story of an office affair in all its seamy particulars, told with such sanctimony that it was redolent of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Because of its spongy militarism and unearned sanctimony and general blank and overwhelming dumbassery, the NFL far outpaces any other sports league for reflecting the failures of the culture in which it's situated; the NBA, which is an altogether lighter and more pleasant place, is not remotely in the same universe of dysfunction, in terms of its product or overall ambient vibe.
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Over the days following his ultra-viral tweet, he continued to tweet sanctimony about how the White House is out to "debunk" him, provide what he apparently considers further evidence of his bonkers theory, retweet just about every publication that picked up his conspiracy theory, from the BBC to the Daily Mail, and, of course, post about how great his weed products are.
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We see Elaine and Bill de Kooning's wedding at City Hall, a celebration marked by its complete lack of sanctimony; we witness the powerhouse moment of Helen Frankenthaler encountering Jackson Pollock's painting for the first time (an experience Frankenthaler recalled as "a beautiful trauma"); we learn of the heartbreaking but very on-brand memorial ritual Joan Mitchell requested at her own funeral (she asked everyone in attendance to conjure up a deep way she'd wronged them and forgive her).
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But it also can't be denied that Ritchie, who hasn't been deemed a director of creative interest since his early Lock, Stock ... and Snatch days, and certainly least of all for his hugely lucrative Sherlock Holmes entries, does pull off some quick-witted and clever sequences here; he doesn't want to bore or approach narrative conventionally, so he's found ways of conveying a good deal of information very quickly, taking an aggressive approach to supplying backstory and never ever slipping into solemnity or sanctimony.
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Something to do with the marriage of high seriousness and low comedy is at the core of his work; something to do with the wars against false piety, against the fantasy of purity and other forms of sanctimony; something to do with how the novel is playful and capacious enough to contain the life of the mind and the body and the spirit; something to do with human indignation and with human dignity; something to do with an epic disregard for the rigid tedium of conventions and the dishonesties of human life, relationships and consciousness.
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