Word: righteous
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Whether she does or not, she is the logical champion to raise a righteous racket against the heathen. King is not merely the seasoned pro who has won five Wimbledon singles titles and two at Forest Hills. She is not only the grit player who serves, rushes and smashes as if life hung on every point. She is also the arm and brain of women's ten nis, the rebel who broke some of the sport's prissy traditions and made the revolution work. Like it or not, King personifies the professional female athlete that Riggs loves...
...genre of underworld dramas like The Godfather and The French Connection, but it goes a step beyond them. In the other two films, the cops and robbers are clearly separated. One roots for the cops or the robbers according to which side is the most romantic, or daring, or righteous. And there is a certain amount of cheating involved when one is asked to care for false heroes. In The Friends of Eddie Coyle, there are no heroes, just as there is no clear separation between cops and robbers--they speak the same language, dress the same, and they...
Weicker did some self-righteous dissociation of himself and the Republican party from the bugging, burglary and other illicit campaign activities conducted by a segment of that party. Yet he is afraid to set out on his own. He is still a captive, rather than a leader, in the Republican party...
...believe it. What a bunch of self-righteous brats...
Milwaukee Sir / It is devoutly to be hoped that the self-righteous members of the cadet honor committee will, as officers, maintain the same rigid standards for themselves-an honor system that has some meaning in their military careers. That includes extreme honesty in the efficiency reports they dole out to others whom they command, and precludes deals with medical officers who will determine their "disabilities" at retirement in order to qualify them for tax-free pensions...