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Sentence Examples When she plays at folk fest, the most righteous of babes will be playing solo once again. But if you're renting this, you're looking for righteous trash, and Tomcat Angels serves it up something fierce. Then they convince themselves they are the most righteous, lily-white citizens God ever created. However, we cannot continue to stoop to their level, because it removes our right to righteous indignation at their atrocities. I mean, as self-serious and righteous and vaguely uncool as they are, at least the boomers are obsessed with stuff like politics and the Beatles. The stage, however, plays host not to righteous roots reggae or foam-mouthed punk rock, but to a scattered group of girls in school uniform. Alcohol consumption becomes a sin when it corrupts righteous thought or behavior, harms health, or violates any civil law. This seems like a bold-faced lie designed to make his readers more righteous in their ignorance. Any righteous indignation on the part of the Americans at that stage was undermined by replays which suggested the offside decision was marginal. He invites us not because we are righteous but because we are sinners who need His salvation. The Pauranas are called Dharma Shastras, scriptures on Dharma, how to live a righteous life. The one baptized is in a state of grace and must assent to, and cooperate with, this infusion in order to become inherently righteous. Many of the girls who greeted Em warmly happened to date him at one time or another in their lives, and were spoiling for righteous retribution. I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on the earth. But as the Spirit is eternal, so also will be the peace of the righteous man and the tribulation of the unrighteous. So, as the righteous thunder continues to rumble from American leaders, the issue of weapons inspections is habitually skewed. Instead of the hymns of the Vedas to Brahma, embrace the righteous conduct of Dharma, and renounce sinful actions. They feel righteous indignation but are not aware that others see it as self-righteousness, double standards and hypocrisy. War will not be a holy war between the purely righteous and the totally unrighteous, between the godly and the ungodly, between good and evil. It just feeds the religious right's feeling of righteous besiegement while gaining almost nothing in practical terms. Show More Sentences Will you blink an eye for them if the banderlats tear them to pieces or will you drown your guilt in petty self righteous doubletalk? Feel your bile rise in righteous indignation as you realise they've put in not one but two Coldplay albums. You are only slowing down your own growth rate through symbolic, righteous and trendy protest. The law did not make one righteous but showed how unrighteous they really were. She won a few hearts from the male fans when she shredded out some righteous guitar solos. Everywhere, the righteous folk of Cambridge are strolling the polleny avenues, letting the breeze sift their hair. There is a troubling darkness in its soul, which the righteous rhetoric and cynical evocation of God seem only to enhance. What made Jesus special, the Adoptionists believed, was that Jesus was more righteous than everyone else. When man sinned, God as a righteous and Holy creator had to judge sin with death. This man has poisoned righteous, God-fearing citizens with his Papist whisperings! He saw the theological elaborations of his country as a justified, elected, and righteous empire to be a form of blasphemy. Tough and righteous babe like that doesn't get hurt easily, and I obviously did hurt her. I affix a leather saddle to his hairy back and ride him into many righteous battles. There is an element of righteous anger, especially when a purveyor of a wholesome family image is the guilty party. Before long he was in full cry, with a heart full of righteous indignation and a head full of steam, and he had help too. It's a cry from the heart for the West, united in righteous and understandable anger, to pause for thought before taking the next fateful step. One excellent way to forget it is to focus with righteous rectitude on the evils of others while focusing on the nobility of oneself. Veronica Guerin builds the lead character into a three-dimensional woman, not just a righteous crusader. We need to have righteous indignation on our side. We need to fight evil, yeah! Nothing inspires an artist more than the righteous anger of an observed injustice. Show More Sentences I know that she shoots from the hip and is liable to provoke righteous indignation. That is why the young are fiery and righteous, and the old crabbedly mutter that there is no new thing under the sun. He is a righteous man, but a man who understands righteousness individualistically, anthropocentrically, and deterministically. The goal of Enoch's prayer, and Mahalalel's command, is to preserve the posterity of the righteous. Today's text focuses on justification and our being made righteous before God. But an opposition leader capable of righteous anger is essential for any democratic legislature. Mr Moore fired up the young crowd with a potent combination of satire, humour, invective and righteous anger. They were filled with a kind of righteous indignation that characterized Old Testament prophets like Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah! I hope by now, you are inured to the fact that righteous indignation generates more email than gratitude. Your opponent comes out, quivering with righteous indignation, spoiling for a fight. Even though we're all flawed, we expect public figures to be morally righteous. Dualism is a tool of oppressors, fundamentalists and the morally righteous. They are the righteous ones whose garments have not been soiled by infidelity to the patron of the universe. Did you know that righteous fury and blind hate are simply two sides of the same coin? Your hatred of the poor is just bigotry, sir, however you try to dress it as righteous indignation. They are described as women who rose in righteous anger and indignation when a man tried to tamper with them. He did not state that obedience to the law makes one fully righteous before God in an eschatological sense. As a society, I would love to think that we are humble, righteous, and that our hands are clean. Over the decades, his choice of roles has defined the perception we have of him as a decent, even righteous man of honour. The trio had eked out a meager living through acts of charity, upholding their righteous values, even in a foreign land. Show More Sentences Please take it as read that I am the last person to think that mere numbers make a cause righteous. The Idirans, on the other hand, conquer the species they considered inferior and subjugate them into their righteous religious empire. The self-proclaimed righteous babe is back with her 17th full-length album, and she certainly hasn't run out of ideas. But most of the historians who have studied the case have concluded that the Massachusetts court didn't end slavery with a righteous bang. I've even been fortunate enough to have a few relationships with some righteous babes. Taoism elevated coitus reservatus,, into an ethic of righteous living. I strove harder to stay awake in church and be more righteous. But Eleanor is still hands-down the most righteous babe on the astrological block. These Old Testament believers are pronouncing their longing for vindication and judgment in the name of Jehovah the righteous one, and in vivid poetic language. A land of opportunity, manifest destiny and righteous moral whatsis. If our glorious leaders want to be so righteous and take the stance they have then in my mind they should be above reproach themselves, whiter than white. And whosoever believes in Allah and performs righteous good deeds, He will admit him into Gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell therein forever. But as the righteous crump machine gained power, the street slowly began to change. Yet such indulgence is often the way, as people laugh off alcoholic excess while working themselves into a righteous moral lather over something smelly in a cigarette. Reacting to this injustice with the righteous indignation of the Lord's anointed, David is enraged that anything so egregious, so pitiless, should take place in his kingdom. Abraham and Sarah trusted the same God, and they were declared righteous. Where is there true reward and punishment in a world where so many innocent and righteous suffer while so many evil people seem to enjoy the good life? Now picture the reaction of those Pharisees who regarded themselves as holy, righteous, and pure but who looked down on any who didn't live up to their standards of holiness. Why are you all of a sudden so righteous about taking one little smoke? Both offer the spectacle of an aggrieved man reacting with righteous rage. Show More Sentences I've shared tears and anger, thoughtfulness and righteous indignation. Most of us, Dr. Godfrey said, don't even think of ourselves as righteous. Evolution may be the personal mission of Ani 2003, but in a broader sense it's more of the same from Buffalo's righteous babe, and that's no slight. Well, I will say that your muse sounds like a truly righteous babe. Terfel roars out his righteous rage and coos his ludicrous love songs with equal aplomb, making the formidable vocal feats seem almost ridiculously easy. These grisly images drew a huge audience, and allowed that audience to indulge in righteous indignation. The insufferably righteous Morgan had followed Harry for years, waiting for him to slip up and break the rules again. I understand that righteous anger fuels the funny, and that you have to work at keeping an ear to the ground and respond to what the audience wants to hear. Their righteous outbursts represent an ancient and unctuous form of kabuki theater. Hello all righteous servants of the Transport Department on every level! You had the mad-dog colonel in his crazy uniform up against a righteous uprising with NATO jets flying overhead. I'd enjoy seeing a trillion dollar coin minted purely for the deservedly righteous indignation such an overstep would create. He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney. Not only does he have a righteous motive, but he also has moral courage. Payne seems to suggest dissatisfaction can be righteous, unappeasable. As a follow up to my first post, and to defuse some of the righteous anger out there, I'd like to address the issue of those muttonheaded men in their driving machines. But the whole book smacks of self righteous mockery and I hardly think this is the way a responsible, caring parent would wish to raise their children. Unfortunately, I am not responsible for the failings of my predecessors, who set up the supply systems and who were as unrighteous as I am righteous. Did a group of righteous warriors throw off the yoke of imperial oppression? This is a problem that does not lend itself to neat political solutions, for all the righteous indignation inspired by rogue companies like Enron. Show More Sentences He was one of the great journalists of our generation, possessing spark and insight and righteous indignation. Traffic wardens are rarely a welcome sight to any motorist, but the latest suggested mission for the men and women with the yellow hatbands is surely a righteous one. As the news of the victory spread across the country, villagers left their mountain hideouts and joined his righteous army, which grew into a force of 2,000 people. There's nothing like righteous anger to put color in your cheeks. Converts accepted their own ineradicable sinfulness, but they were psychologically freed by the proclamation that God nevertheless considered them innocent or righteous. The participation of these Gentiles in the pilgrimage to Jerusalem with the offering for the poor symbolized their share in this righteous activity. He has charisma, a fabulous new line of hipster clothing, a reality-TV show in development, and a posse of hot young actors swooning over his righteous aura. Her every word is righteous, and she never speaks frowardly or perversely. The Soviet gulag and the German death camp cast a pall over the very concept of labor, nearly foreclosing the Left's righteous claims to its revolutionary heritage. So my bare belly is, for all intents and purposes, a righteous, God-fearing belly with a place reserved in heaven for itself and all its polygamist wives. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. God has given this earth to those who will subdue and cultivate it, and it is vain to struggle against His righteous decree. The feud ends in an eighteen day war where the righteous Pandavas win against the evil Kauravas. But the role that really made his name was as the smoulderingly righteous Mr Darcy in BBC TV's Pride And Prejudice. And therefore God's wrath is shed on them and righteous vengeance, with great fierceness of umbelapping torments. You literally can't fight rockism, because the language of righteous struggle is the language of rockism itself. The apostle looked forward to a meeting with the righteous Judge with exultating expectation, as being worthy, in the gospel sense. There are several ahadeeth that highlight the importance of choosing a righteous and pious spouse. The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon. Set a happy and an influential example to your fellow slaveholders, by a righteous treatment of those, whom you unrighteously hold in bondage. Show More Sentences Christ is believed to have died in place of the believer, who is accounted righteous as a result of this sacrificial payment. The Orthodox believe that the state of the soul in Hades can be affected by the love and prayers of the righteous up until the Last Judgment. This is the meal pleasantly set.... this is the meat and drink for natural hunger. It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous. And you will not take a bribe, because a bribe will blind the alert, and will twist the words of the righteous. Giants are rough but generally righteous characters of formidable strength living up the hills of the Basque Country. The spleen and stomach are the latter heaven root, the source of the engenderment and transformation of the righteous qi. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. They'd had occasion to see Peyton Armistead in all his righteous fury and she knew they wouldn't hesitate to take him down if she gave the word. You save your souls here, eating cabbage, and think you are the righteous. You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon. So is the righteous man white in cleanness of soul, and therefore shall he have a white stole of undeadliness in the high Lebanon that is the bliss of heaven. It feels like barely a heartbeat since they arrived with their game changer, an album bursting with righteous street smarts and a river of proper nouns. Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers. But that it was by no means absent is shown by the numerous instances in Acts of the punishment of evildoers and the recompensing of the righteous. The Dharmasastras describe many crimes and their punishments and call for the death penalty in several instances, including murder and righteous warfare. After the resurrection of all the dead, and the change of those still living, all nations shall be gathered before Christ, and he will separate the righteous from the wicked. The bodies will then be changed, those of the wicked to a state of everlasting shame and torment, those of the righteous to an everlasting state of celestial glory. Well, don't think I'll settle for so little, Mr. Talbot. Or should I call you David? I think you look like a David, you know, righteous and clean living and all of that. God cannot be the author of sin because he is entirely holy and righteous. A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable. By doing so, Europeans could cherish a rather unambiguously heroic image of themselves as conquerors or righteous civilisers of the non-Western world. Show More Sentences Parents felt the tales about the perils of such vices as thumbsucking, cruelty to small creatures and failing to eat soup, would keep their offspring on a righteous course. In this view, each new dynasty is founded by a morally righteous founder. Stuck between the culture of eIanything goeseIU and that of the bombastically righteous they live in a world which more often than not promotes relativistic thinking. Tony began as the classic two-bit gunsel who gave us law-abiding schnooks a vicarious thrill with his rise, then a righteous reassurance with his fall. Examples from Classical Literature But at this Abe's prudence deserted him, and righteous wrath rose to the ascendent. Who more sorry for the righteous and necessary doom which the impenitence of heartlessness drags down upon itself? He separates the righteous from those who must forever be sundered from their God. We may look upon Him as a taskmaster, or we may look upon Him as a righteous Father. Here it was, then, that this Amalekite came to his end by the hand of righteous Samuel. The crying need of the times is a wholesome respect for law and order, and a righteous condemnation of mob rule everywhere. With pique mingling with his relief, Anatol rises to the occasion, professing the righteous indignation of a wounded spirit. God says, all the horns of the wicked will be cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted. Paradise is for the souls of the righteous, Gehenna for the souls of the wicked. But that had been better than the dry-rot of an escape from righteous punishment. He acquired among them a reputation as the one righteous American in their California Gomorrah. We all have our righteous secrets, and should all respect the righteous secrets of others. Well, you're a nice one with your history to put on these highfaluting, righteous airs, aren't you? He shall be as a refiner's fire, and the righteous are saved as by fire. I might have been if David Cameron had come over all righteous anger BEFORE he trousered the money to cut back his wistaria, but not afterwards. A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. I had systematized those, and put the service on an effective and righteous basis. It is excusable to sort of inveigle a sinner into righteous paths. Rather savage vengeance for an eminently righteous deed, which Cornelius had the satisfaction of having performed as a bounden duty. Not the reverse of what is just and righteous, Socrates, god forbid! Show More Sentences What but thy malice moved thee to misdeem Of righteous Job, then cruelly to afflict him With all inflictions? Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! She seemed to be holding to it in the face of righteous judgment. But mind, my most righteous and well-beloved, I will have no flattery. To save himself from the righteous wrath of the husband of a woman he had wronged, he perjured his soul in an attempt to place the blame entirely upon her. There can be no doubt that the subject of the righteous but unbaptized heathen was an important topic in the theological debate of the 14th century. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of righteous? Words that rhyme with righteous What is the past tense of righteous? What is the adverb for righteous? What is the adjective for righteous? What is the noun for righteous? Translations for righteous Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words righted right-clicking right-click right-brained right-brain right away righteous indignation righteously righteousness righter right-footed right from the start 9-letter Words Starting With r ri rig righ right righte righteo righteou