Word: righteously
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Last weekend, on the other hand, my heart soared to see Hugh Grant’s Prime Minister deal some body blows to the obnoxiously ignorant and gratingly self-righteous American president, and immediately I began to wish that Tony Blair would do something similar in real life. As the movie said, Britain might be small but it shouldn’t cower before America’s myopic bullying. And as soon as Hugh Grant is elected prime minister, it just might...
...partly produced by the political system itself. For instance, both parties have carved congressional districts that have solid majorities of Republicans or Democrats, which means fewer lawmakers have to compromise to keep folks happy at the coffee shop back home. Special-interest money supports only the most righteous candidates, overpowering the old party structure in which being a purist on issues like gun control or fiscal spending mattered less than putting a D or an R after your name in the Congressional Directory...
...indirect manner of striking Arab or Islamic governments that militants condemn as corrupt," says the adviser to Morocco's King. France's Jacquard calls the tactic a new "strategy of rupture." The purpose, he says, is to force Muslims "to finally, fatally decide whether they are for or against righteous jihad." Jacquard says Saudi intelligence officials told him the Riyadh bombers who struck on Nov. 8 picked their target, knowing the apartment complex housed many Arabs, to send the message that all who resist jihad are fair game. To kill fellow Muslims during Ramadan, as terrorists did in Istanbul...
...many of the good friends I have made here, I found the student body as a whole to be something of a mixed-bag. Many of the people you encounter here are outrageously self-involved and, if you’ll pardon the melodramatic hypocrisy, unbearably humorless and self-righteous...
...really angry about the status quo and how Mephistopheles used cultural norms to screw over Gretchen, so I channeled my embarrassment into righteous indignation,” van Cleef said...