| It was terrible, those poor people, sighed the grandmother with the self-righteously linear way of thinking but a warmly direct emotionality. |
| The American habit of imposing its worldview self-righteously on others is deeply unwelcome. |
| A more mature authorial voice would be a synthesis between the two — neither self-righteously indignant nor willfully naïve. |
| Though self-righteously claiming to work for conservation, most zoos are just businesses, existing to make money. |
| A cousin, exasperatedly and somewhat self-righteously, called him a crybaby. |
| If you'd wanted to borrow it, you should have asked,' I said, self-righteously. |
