Word: righteous
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...culture was an especially irresistible target, after a year of hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up that "glamorized" unwed motherhood. Some blogs hosted a righteous orgy of "slutshaming," denouncing Gloucester's "marauding narcissistic sluts" for following the toxic example of movie stars and the Spears sisters, and longing for the return of the scarlet letter. But I wonder if the critics would be so quick to condemn if they flipped the story and viewed it another...
Politicians deploy righteous indignation like college students use credit cards - to excess and with abandon. For such seasoned performers, the emotion is easy to muster, and there are few upfront costs. Rail against powerful interests or the mendacity of your opponent on the stump, and the crowd goes nuts...
...invited King to speak at their Class Day exercises. His widow, Coretta Scott King, now had to come to Cambridge to speak in his place. On June 12, exactly one week after the Kennedy killing, Mrs. King admonished the Class of 1968 to “speak out with righteous indignation” against what she called “the forces which are seeking to destroy...
...have taken to the streets. Harvard’s Class of 2008 enjoyed a tame final semester, without any takeovers of University Hall. This irritates some from my generation who would like to see today’s college students responding with a bit more “righteous indignation” to the war in Iraq. We denigrate today’s youth as too coddled and self-absorbed to care. Not fearing military service, thanks to an all-volunteer army, today’s students can afford focus their energies on resume building, graduation parties, and summer travel...
...There's that much evil in the world? And Clint, thinking more about storytelling craft than Cannes crockery, would say, Sure. But there are heroes too. And this time, the righteous gunslinger is a mom with no weapon but her inexhaustible love...