| Having stayed in this land of elephants and snake charmers for twenty years now, I've become used to this inane exposition of sanctimoniousness. |
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| After the stifling incense-choked sanctimoniousness of American politics, getting back to Britain was like coming up for air. |
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| As tabloid values get a hammering, a ghastly, keening note of smug middle-class sanctimoniousness has been added. |
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| This sanctimoniousness clouds virtually all her work, despite its readability. |
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| Usually she has the decency to lay low, occasionally confiding obnoxious sanctimoniousness at dinner parties. |
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| So there's a time to be humble and a time to be indignant, sanctimoniousness, a scold, etc. |
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| This new sanctimoniousness, said officials, was a precaution to ward off a hue-and-cry from Jordan's Islamists, already restive over King Abdullah's hands-off approach to the looming war on Iraq. |
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| The eagerness of most of the world to rehabilitate a rejected Iran would only be matched by its frustration at American sanctimoniousness. |
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| By publicly speaking of sexuality, Durcan not only criticizes the viewer's sanctimoniousness but also hybridizes the private and the public. |
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| In fact, I was shown into a darkened room which smelled of manure and sanctimoniousness. |
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| A constant refrain throughout this long literature of complaint, and what European intellectuals even now find most repugnant, is American sanctimoniousness, the habit of dressing the business of power in the garb of piety. |
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| It was an exhibition of precisely the sort of farcical sanctimoniousness that Moore later decried as a sign that the left was becoming insular to the point of self-parody. |
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| The first is the ideology of love itself, even the idolatry of the concept and the feeling of love, which Linklater films with the goggle-eyed sanctimoniousness of a recent convert. |
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