Word: righteous
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...does succeed in offering, in Farooqi's words, "a bridge between [Adventures] and the modern world." Non-Urdu-speaking readers can at last appreciate an epic "on par with anything in the Western canon." And, with luck, the classical pantheon populated by indomitable Achilles, cunning Odysseus and righteous King Arthur will now be joined by a new beloved hero: mercurial, mighty Amir Hamza, astride his winged-demon steed, soaring to the heavens...
Zornow also possesses a sometimes-alienating, almost self-righteous old-school sensibility. He’s deeply nostalgic for the golden era of DJing in the late 1990s, and laments the rise of “custom records,” which DJs commission specially for their battle routines...
...certainly will. Apparently, by arranging what some hope to be China’s largest ever stock offering, “the bank plays an important role in underwriting the supporters of Sudan’s genocidal government.” And with that note, the chanticleers of self-righteous indignation sound their call—nearly 900 hundred tiresome words long—to action. “Divest from Sudan!” or, more recently, “from Burma too!” the choruses one after another, in perpetual refrain, raise, striking so high...
Freshman City Councillor Craig A. Kelley is either an earnest, progressive reformer or an unbearable, self-righteous gadfly...
...didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat a salad.” I had developed a life-long aversion to vegetarianism, growing up in a place where most vegetarians and vegans were aged hippies or their equally self-righteous spawn, convinced that in denying themselves protein and pleasure they had earned a karmic bonus to lord over the rest of us. I refused to go over to the dark side. So I turned to books and became a vicarious carnivore. The genre of food writing is similar to any other specialized...