Your self-righteousness and hysteria over a passing tweet is something.
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It was a telling moment, as was Acosta's self-righteousness afterward.
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But there's still some of that self-righteousness in its institutional DNA.
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The meal is just healthful enough to justify a little self-righteousness.
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The values, in this case, were Hoover's own law-and-order self-righteousness.
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For Axe and Chuck it's obsession, self-righteousness, jealousy, justice, and often vengeance.
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Rigor and self-righteousness often go in tandem, as do idealism and egotism.
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We would do well to stanch any North American impulse toward self-righteousness.
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Some liberals need to dial down the self-righteousness meter a few notches.
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Rand Paul in beating up on the stuck-up self-righteousness of Sen.
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"Self-righteousness isn't very proactive," Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson said on CNBC in April.
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There may be somewhat of a sense of self-righteousness to Drax, but no.
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Schlesinger's radical democracy has become Chait's chastened technocracy, with all Schlesinger's self-righteousness intact.
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But "Black-ish" is too nuanced to make Johan's bohemian self-righteousness one-note.
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But she does not lapse into self-righteousness because she does not spare herself.
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"I'm a Good Person" shows us her desire to wallow in congratulatory self-righteousness.
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There is nothing to fight against, and no armor of self-righteousness to protect you.
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They could have survived, but a husher can't help the self-righteousness of the hush.
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Often, she goes for extreme personal attacks and self-righteousness, which makes perfect internet fodder.
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A handful of months without alcohol under my belt, I reveled in my self-righteousness.
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It has also, however, brought out a streak of petulant self-righteousness among some supporters.
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What this creates is a politics of enormous self-justification, self-affirmation and self-righteousness.
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She writes, she has said, to root out her own smugness, self-righteousness and stupidity.
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If anything, he lacks any trace of self-righteousness, a chronic affliction of wine writers.
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Sometimes Western preaching of human rights, when it's wrapped up in self-righteousness, can backfire.
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It was a noxious feeling of jealousy mixed with an equally rotten instinct for self-righteousness.
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He insists on being transferred to another hospital after, in a hilarious moment of self-righteousness.
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If you suspect that Germany has quickly moved from relief to self-righteousness, you're not wrong.
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She did not express the pain or anger or self-righteousness of someone who felt betrayed.
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But there's a sense of self-righteousness that comes out of that campaign that bothered me.
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Annemie doesn't have the same self-righteousness as Prairie/The OA, but she is just as unreliable.
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But dedication to change a culture won't happen with opinion and self-righteousness as the only weapon.
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Clark's self-righteousness is accompanied by a creepy lack of boundaries in dealing with the opposite sex.
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Another person who knows Comey well says, 'There is stubbornness, ego, and some self-righteousness at work.
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Narcissistic behavior includes self-righteousness, a pattern of cheating in relationships, and taking advantage of other people.
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Sensationalism, self-righteousness, sentimentality — there are plenty of traps lying in wait for playwrights examining gun violence.
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The choice of Niebuhr was a curious choice, given the theologian's disdain for hypocrisy and self-righteousness.
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A problematic self-righteousness surrounds these reports: Through quantification, of course we see the world we already inhabit.
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" In the same piece, Arianna Huffington remarks on Clinton's "self-righteousness," Peggy Noonan on her "apple-cheeked certitude.
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One is the conviction that such a discovery was an obligation — based on tremendous confidence and self-righteousness.
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We should be outraged at what ISIS does, but we should not indulge in self-righteousness or superiority.
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Skill alone wasn't enough — she needed the energy supplied by her natural intensity and her manic self-righteousness.
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You have no idea of the amount of anger, self-righteousness, bigotry and willful ignorance you're dealing with.
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Just turn the anger and self-righteousness up to 11 and scream the opposing argument out of existence.
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Given Saitama's mild appearance and lack of self-righteousness, he's routinely underestimated, his heroic deeds usually underplayed or misinterpreted.
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She gets to be outlandish, horrible, and gorgeous, then flounce off into the fields aglow with hippie self-righteousness.
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In the meantime, there's nothing as fun as the self-righteousness of telling our friends how it should have ended.
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They certainly can match the Indian media's self-righteousness blow-by-blow, even as they bask in bouts of gloating.
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This is a group of people who have entirely reconstructed their universe out of self-righteousness and spite for authority.
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But Father John Misty doesn't offer even the cold comforts of self-righteousness or cynical punch lines, much less solutions.
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That's hardly news, and Oscar's take probably wouldn't be either had he not turned the self-righteousness up to 11.
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It also makes thematic sense with George R. R. Martin's perspective on religion, colonialism, and the human cost of self-righteousness.
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I can't help but think that any self-righteousness on my part in sharing news this way would likely be shortsighted.
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In his self-righteousness and outsized ego, Steyer resembles a resistance grifter, but the only one he's really grifting is himself.
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"And lots of reporting -- particularly in television commentary -- there's a self righteousness and smugness in people kind of ridiculing the President."
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The entire rest of the game is about fixing that mistake, about stopping the people empowered by bumbling American self-righteousness.
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He hit back by lamenting the hypocrisy of self-righteousness and intolerance, calling instead for Christians to embrace compassion toward outsiders.
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With the self-righteousness of a hero in a Shakespearean tragedy, he wailed that he was more sinned against than sinning.
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Yes. ... But people just aren't buying the 'we do no evil' and the self-righteousness of all the social media platforms.
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On a personal gut level, there's a self-righteousness that emanates out of that campaign that I think doesn't belong in office.
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That would have felt true to her character while simultaneously signaling that her self-righteousness had hardened into something much more dangerous.
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Like Casey Stengel's 1963 Mets, they don't know how to play the game and have chosen chest-beating and self-righteousness instead.
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After a summer love affair, he rejects Brenda and the nouveau-riche Patimkins with the smug self-righteousness of Joyce's Stephen Dedalus.
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Now I'm getting lectures from right-wing people, which is, by the way ... And I keep going ... I don't need your self-righteousness.
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There's a huge amount ... There's almost a — pious isn't the right word — but there's almost a self-righteousness to it because they're nerds.
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The two are more negative images of each other than opposites, with Jenna's self-aware fakeness cutting through Liz's tone-deaf self-righteousness.
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But when extremists meet in the dark corners of the web, they inspire each other to greater heights of paranoia and self-righteousness.
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Just as Leigh takes down Steven, this guy from the bar reveals the hypocrisy of Shirley's self-righteousness in a stunning, deadpan speech.
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But one could already see in embryo some of the problems arising from the combination of America's unchallenged military dominance and self-righteousness.
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The blur wiped away both the sentiment of the family portrait and the self-righteousness some young Germans brought to the Nazi past.
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But the idea that he acted out of moral self-righteousness is not much more reassuring, given the immense powers of his office.
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Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of "Nickel and Dimed," unpacks the self-righteousness and distraction that can accompany these conversations among the tech elite.
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Comey's self-righteousness was his ultimate undoing, but not before he led the agency into a double death grip of corruption and rank partisanship.
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The smugness and self-righteousness of the GOP elites who are turning their backs on Trump just three weeks before the election is shameful.
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What they need is for you to take off that false cloak of self-righteousness, adjust to reality and (occasionally) tell them the truth.
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" Kavanaugh was even inexplicably dishonest when, flush with self-righteousness, he claimed that he got into Yale without connections, purely by "busting my tail.
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Maybe it's time to consider whether there's something about shrill self-righteousness, shouted from a position of high social status, that turns people away.
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"There's a self-righteousness born of the idea of, 'I know what's best, so I'm going to tell you what it is,'" Dr. Zeising says.
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The self-righteousness would remain intact in Barlow through the decades, a quality that manifests itself throughout Mother American Night with varying degrees of charm.
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Trish, officially powered by catlike abilities, has become a coldblooded killer with the kind of self righteousness that would make Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) proud.
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But this essay by Alice Wong, who relies on a wheelchair and a ventilator (as well as plastic straws), made me check my self-righteousness.
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The image isn't blasphemous, for only Jesus is depicted with an alcoholic drink, but with a single stroke it thrashes the self-righteousness of religious extremists.
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Little do they realize, of course, that this conspiracy-obsessed propaganda, the self-righteousness it reflects and the hatred it fuels are part of the problem.
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In some people's eyes, he was the victim of political correctness, #MeToo's overreach, a check-your-white-male-privilege culture drunk on its own self-righteousness.
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While Aslan claims to walk alongside the seeker, his orientation is actually the opposite, forgoing humility and spiritual hunger in favor of simplicity and self-righteousness.
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Consume less and donate more, and you'll make a real difference and get the warm feeling of self-righteousness that comes from changing your personal habits.
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Monse Finnie (Sierra Capri) completely misses her friends' capture since her back is turned to the entire messy event due to a classic fit of self-righteousness.
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White heroes are not required to question their role in a violent event but simply ponder it with a healthy degree of detachment, cynicism, and self-righteousness.
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The sting would be felt all the more acutely as the GOP establishment and the center-left intelligentsia tried to outbid each other in sanctimonious self-righteousness.
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" Asked if he thought Cruz was actually questioning the bravery of New Yorkers after 85033/11, King didn't let up, attributing the senator's comments to "self-righteousness.
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The players have politicized their game by turning their deep dislike of President Trump into a showcase of moral self-righteousness portrayed as concern for the oppressed.
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But I have found it is better to live in the pain of not-knowing than to live in a certainty held together by zealous self-righteousness.
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It called attention to the mayor's occasional displays of self-righteousness mixed with political naïveté, especially when he saw himself as the protagonist of a lofty mission.
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This stomping self-righteousness and dreamy ambition are comic and somehow enchanting — not just to Harlan (Dan Tracy), who's a little smitten with her, but to us, too.
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Does Ms. Weiner comprehend how her misguided anger, supreme self-righteousness and intense prejudice against "the men" contribute to the further empowerment of those she purports to despise?
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Too much of today's left is too busy pointing out the ugliness of the Trumpian right to notice its own ugliness: its censoriousness, nastiness and complacent self-righteousness.
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In it, she explores the tension between her early-twenties idealism and self-righteousness and hints at her later desire to be seen as a more holistic, complex individual.
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Third, it subtly calls out the fact that the other person not only failed to pay attention, but also rushed to judgment/criticism/self-righteousness, instead of being thorough.
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"It's an attitude of self-righteousness that says we are so pure, we're so morally superior, we cannot bear to hear an idea with which we disagree," he said.
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We do not undertake this work from a perspective of self-righteousness, understanding instead that corruption has been and remains an endemic challenge for democratic governments, including our own.
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Several times over the course of the first two episodes, Rachel says she's "making history" with such obnoxious self-righteousness it's hard not to hope for her to fail.
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I had also assumed — wrongly, in retrospect — that Christie's self-righteousness would eventually lead to his taking umbrage against the candidate whose disrespect for everyone was so gleefully evident.
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Or was it liberals, cozy in their elite enclaves on the coasts, who burrowed down into self-righteousness, lecturing working-class Republicans about how they misunderstand their own interests?
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It was a very bad idea from the outset, and one forced into life — or the life of the undead — with barely imaginable self-righteousness, pedantry, dynamism, and horror.
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But Mr. Schiff has also become a lightning rod among Republicans who seethed at what they saw as his self-righteousness and accused him repeatedly of mischaracterizing the evidence.
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The FOMB monarchic and self-righteousness belief have reached the point of putting the children with disabilities in Puerto Rico at risk of losing the federal protections and services.
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But the democratic process is hardly infallible, and a great deal of damage can be done by presidents rich in political charisma — and with it zeal, self-righteousness and certainty.
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Do you think he can manage to muster up the self-righteousness so many men are feeling in the face of comments like Trump's that it's just "locker room talk"?
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Our big "blow torch" conservative radio station out of Des Moines blasts conservative indignation and self-righteousness for hours a day and serves up Sean Hannity for hours every night.
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All are marching with variously arch and brash self-righteousness to the bank, where their accounts are secure, if not swelling by the day with newfound culture and partisan warfare profits.
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To be against violence, frightened of fanaticism, acutely conscious of the customary nature of our most devout attachments—without this foundation in realism, political action always pivots toward puritanical self-righteousness.
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Picard always did the right thing, but his moral certainty, bordering on self-righteousness, was balanced by doubt and guilt that could become temporarily crippling when it served the writers' purposes.
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Other times it leads to self-righteousness or glibness, as with the wonky musical instruments made by Guillermo Galindo, a Mexican composer, incorporating tubes salvaged from a refugee camp near Kassel.
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Candidates who best use virtue signaling are the ones who wait for the right moment, using indignation to buoy policy points, switching out self-righteousness for purposeful discourse at the last second.
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Live Review Self-pity, self-mockery, self-righteousness, self-loathing, self-defense — long before the era of the selfie, Morrissey was writing songs that turned constant self-absorption into a blood sport.
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And as my finger hovers over that Slender Tunic, which Lands' End is now selling in blackberry — a color that suits me very much — it is harder to find my self-righteousness again.
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The goal would have been to keep piety and discipline embedded in the culture of a place like Harvard, rather than the mix of performative self-righteousness and raw ambition that replaced them.
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Mr. White could easily have loaded the satiric dice, emphasizing Brad's Gen-X self-absorption or Ananya's millennial self-righteousness, but he suspends judgment, leaving the viewer hanging in an exquisitely uncomfortable limbo.
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But so does a judicial activism that cuts down normal legal precedent in order to go after him, and tries to pre-emptively strip away his powers without any warrant save self-righteousness.
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But maybe we should temper some of our self-righteousness and remember this the next time we want to tweet when a victim is cued up for saying or doing something cruel or insensitive.
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I, too, indulged — and sometimes still do — in those reflexes to critique, mock or dismiss everything that rubbed me the wrong way, but it never felt good, even when my self-righteousness was justified.
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This scandal has had the salutary effect too of exploding what remains of upper middle class and wealthy self-righteousness about the grubby ways of the college sports in the basketball and football divisions.
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One is about a pugnacious but well-intentioned politician who does something unwise, then finds that a blood-hungry media and shallow public can't hear his message over the sound of their own self-righteousness.
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The spectacle of "Ivanka Vacuuming" and the media hubbub it spawned — Ms. Trump weighed in with both self-righteousness and mild indignation — got me thinking about other art I've seen starring the Trumps, usually Donald.
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In May, Calipari seemingly took an indirect shot at Duke's perceived self-righteousness; just this week, on Mike Lupica's radio show, he seemingly found a way to condemn the recent scandals at North Carolina and Louisville.
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As news anchors aped comics, and comics fact-checked anchors, the categories of who was the serious one, the moral one, the self-righteous one—and who should be tweaked for self-righteousness—blurred for good.
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It was in itself an invasion by "PC culture" of the wargaming space, with all its scolding, its guilt, its self-righteousness, and its assertion of ambiguity and implicit meaning into a delineated space of abstract simulation.
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At this point, Eleanor's been having an incredibly hard time interacting with the Good Place's residents —especially gorgeous charity ball enthusiast Tahani (Jameela Jamil) — while swallowing her disgust at what she finds to be their self-righteousness.
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Philip Roth, his friend and neighbor in upstate New York, was equally disgusted by Nixon and what he represented about the US, a place replete with hatred posing as self-righteousness and bile disguised as religious faith.
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What really distinguishes them from their predecessors, say their critics, is not solipsism, impatience or a certainty that can slide from admirable passion into self-righteousness, but the expectation that all their problems should be magicked away.
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Mr. Rosenthal posits two possibilities: Either the F.B.I. director was deliberately interfering with an election — "which would be terrifying" — or he was acting out of "some kind of moral self-righteousness," which would not be much better.
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He was painted as much dirtier, though, and he and Hillary responded by adopting an assumption that the press would target them no matter what, and so a self-destructive secrecy, self-righteousness, and fatalism took hold.
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The last thing I want my students to do is engage in escapism especially in politics and public policy by only engaging in the same kind of narrow, ideological homogeneity that reinforces a sense of self-righteousness.
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Long passages in Comey's thesis are also devoted to explicating the various sorts of pride that Niebuhr argued could afflict human beings — most notably, moral pride and spiritual pride, which can lead to the sin of self-righteousness.
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Greg Kinnear bolsters his natural smugness with a touch of self-righteousness in the role of Coach Turner; it doesn't help, but again it seems as if no one involved appreciated what made the part work in the original.
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Or the irritation among journalists who stayed on at The Times-Picayune, and who see a streak of self-righteousness in the attitude from their rivals that journalism is somehow more pure if it's delivered on paper every day.
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But he also quarreled with the wrong people in the Warriors' front office, fueled by what insiders considered a self-righteousness that prompted his firing and the coming of Steve Kerr with the team on the threshold of a championship.
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People who want the Model 212, Tesla's first mass-market electric vehicle, would presumably also want to trick out their homes with solar panels to charge the car's battery, thus creating a totally green, totally sustainable feedback loop of self-righteousness.
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That is not a popular sentiment for many, but those who judge must know that selfish self-righteousness takes a back seat to ensuring that Nancy Pelosi remains speaker and our values prevail, even if not in the purest form.
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A term relatively interchangeable with "SJW," Tumblrina is an insult aimed at young, alt-looking lefty women, as Tumblr is a social media platform containing multitudes of liberal-minded youngsters who can occasionally lay on the self-righteousness a little thick.
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But to the extent that he has created a genre unto itself over the past 40-plus years, his most recent album, "Look Now," represents it fully: that heady Costello mix of Broadway balladry, Detroit soul and postpunk self-righteousness.
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The blatant bias on broadcast, the smugness, the self-righteousness that was on full display recently when CNN's Jim Acosta got into a needless spat with the White House aide Stephen Miller, looking more like a Democratic operative than a journalist.
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Only one would-be delegate — Andrew Kingman, a former supporter of Marco Rubio running for the slot pledged to the Florida senator on the first ballot — had the self-confidence (or, if you prefer, self-righteousness) to condemn the Trumpists to their faces.
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If President Obama's top deputies are, in fact, the architects of the targeting of, spying on and attempted ruination of the duly elected president, they might want to spend less time signaling faux self-righteousness and more time speed-dialing their lawyers.
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I have lived in repentance for the past several years—repenting of my self-righteousness, my fear-based approach to life, the teaching of my books, my views of women in the church, and my approach to parenting to name a few.
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She's not the first-born son, so not plagued by the self-righteousness that usually comes along with being the chosen one, and she's not the third one, like Louis, who will likely always have to fight to prove that he's not the baby of the family.
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" Mr. Comey's intensely personal attacks — a reflection of his self-righteousness, his detractors say — are all the more combustible because they are aimed directly at a president who has said with pride on Twitter that "when someone attacks me, I always attack back...except 100x more.
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Ultimately, the episode is actually asking us to see how both sides are both right and wrong — and how the self-righteousness of pretending to be anything other than a flawed human being is a disease that plagues us all right now, regardless of which "side" you're on.
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Initially, a couple of them seemed obscure — hardly a misdemeanor in my book — but give them a chance, and I am sure that any reservations you might have will fall away, unless, of course, you are just a cold-hearted person brimming with jealousy, meanness, and self-righteousness.
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"It's more interesting to be trying to push on these things and not keep settling back into the same old binaries and defenses and self-righteousness," said Margo Jefferson, the author of "On Michael Jackson" and a former Times critic who won the Pulitzer Prize for her book reviews.
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And not only conservatives: From the first, but more so as he aged, liberals recognized Antonin Scalia as their side's Great Antagonist, the kind of larger-than-life personality that you despise and admire in equal measure, a foe who inspires not just self-righteousness but also, occasionally, self-doubt.
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I learned the hard way that any man who wants a woman, especially a teenage girl, to keep their relationship secret fears consequences more than he values privacy — that he is overall a bad dude with a small dose of shame in an endless well of rationalization and self-righteousness.
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But as more and more stars declined to outwardly abide by Hollywood's morality code, the real shift wasn't toward "immorality" so much as self-righteousness: You could try to stifle Hollywood, this new narrative suggested, but it would always resist, and never again allow its true self to be censored.
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I think it's better described as self-righteousness — a dangerous current in modern right-wing politics that has its roots in the rise of the Moral Majority, which aimed to make politics a choice between good values (the right's) and bad values (the left's) rather than a competition of ideas.
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Only this delusion can explain the remarkable confidence, the blasé self-righteousness, of 30 liberal economists claiming that the ACA simply "requires people to buy health insurance when they can afford to do so"—because the law's determination of who could afford to do so was undoubtedly right—too correct to double check.
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Grant's world is, in certain respects, painfully familiar, peopled by such figures as the military man whose managerial skill is assumed to indicate integrity; the tycoon who is assumed to have none; and a press that is engaged in bouts of unfocussed self-righteousness, damaging the well-meaning and the malevolent alike.
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But I can also believe that the obvious pleasure to be found in demonizing the Republican most likely to do outreach could deliver liberalism more of what it has already been earning for itself these last few years: the satisfaction of self-righteousness as a compensation for the absence of political or policy success.
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Prepare for a cataract of derision and self-righteousness should you dare pen anything perceived as too left or too right, as too pious or too profane, as possibly ageist or racist, sexist or classist, each "ist" word shot like a silver bullet intended first to take you down and then to wake you from your own beastliness.
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Poitras' new documentary, "Risk" — following up on her Oscar-winning "CitizenFour," on Edward Snowden — provides perhaps the most unvarnished, intimate look into the persistence, smarts, self-righteousness, and misogyny of the man who, despite being holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for nearly five years, has earned the ire of the most powerful governments on Earth.
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But some of Search Party's sharpest, most pointed material certainly takes aim at some specific millennial tropes, like sacrificing personal integrity in the name of #brand building (see: Elliott and Chantal's pathological lying), and unearned self-righteousness (see: Drew's hypocritical high horse, Dory insisting that her constant quests for meaning come from just being a good person, dammit).
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If you are in need of a respite from the usual displays of smart-alecky irony, material excess, and the latest round of self-righteousness, you might want to make your way to the exhibition, Yun Hyong-keun at David Zwirner (January 17– March 7, 2020), which takes up three gallery spaces of the second floor of his 20th Street outpost.
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And then there were the responses to the responses, like this one from Medium blogger Emey, who warned against self-righteousness in his own "self-righteous open letter to people who write self-righteous open letters to people who write self-righteous open letters": If your experiences took place more than a few years ago, they are not useful to recount.
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In this election cycle, no faction on the Democratic side more richly deserves rebuking than the one Biden singled out — which is not, of course, anywhere close to the entire millennial generation (roughly 80 million strong), or their younger siblings in Gen Z. But it is that part of these younger generations that specializes in histrionic self-pity and moral self-righteousness, usually communicated via social media with maximum snark.
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In her two concurrent exhibitions, Nina Chanel Abney: Seized the Imagination at Jack Shainman Gallery (November 9 – December 20, 2017) and Nina Chanel Abney: Safe House at Mary Boone, curated by Piper Marshall (November 20 – December 22, 2017), the artist employs stenciled shapes and symbols (dollar signs, X's, teardrops, birds, and cats), while channeling safety posters, cartoons, graffiti, Stuart Davis's jammed together planes of color, Sister Corita's serigraphs, Emory Douglas's artwork for the newspaper Black Panther, and Henri Matisse's cutouts, to address the prevailing state of incivility, rumor, misperception, and self-righteousness that has descended over America like a radioactive mist, infecting us all.
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