Word: righteousness
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offended dignity or righteous indignation as though to the manner born...
This ban unfortunately coincided with the Cornell Fall Weekend, and the student body raised its voice in righteous indignation...
...maintain its chosen order. Britain's Henry VIII, for example, quarreled with Papists as well as Protestants when he deemed them a menace to his royal law and order, was apt to burn both on the same day. Luther condemned radical sectarians-Zwinglians, Anabaptists, peasant-reformers-with righteous enthusiasm. Too-temperate Catholics fell victims to their own Inquisition...
...Roots, for seriousness and intensity of feeling, is possibly the strongest motion picture that has been made in Mexico since Luis Buñuel turned out Los Olvidados, and The Cows is clearly the strongest of the film's four episodes. It has the strength of righteous anger, but it has anger's weakness, too. It overstates its case. The Mexican Indian is often poor, but in the villages he is seldom desperate. The land holds him rooted, God shines down upon him like the sun, and the ancient mold of village life supports...
...requiring jury trials in contempt cases. The New York Times, which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock), who is forever lampooning Eisenhower for indecisiveness, did an astonishing turnabout to sketch an impulsive Ike pointing a revolver at a fair Miss Civil Rights...