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How To Use Sanctimony In A Sentence

  • Perry has dealt in stereotypes and rude humor, with a side order of sanctimony. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: For Colored Girls
  • I am so sick of the sanctimony of bigmouths lecturing them about the need for civility in the wake of her murder.
  • The microphone; the sampler, the phonograph, the electric guitar, the DJ, all of have infringed upon the sanctimony of contemporary popular music and came out vindicated.
  • The poll does ask some loaded questions, but I believe an alarming level of sanctimony is implicit in those answers (Is the US more divided by class than Europe, I think not … are our racial tensions more acute, not even close). Think Progress » The task of winning hearts and minds
  • Question: Is there any chance — any chance — the Times would not release the tape and publish front-page story after story about the gory details, with the usual accompanying chorus of sanctimony from the oped commentariat? Archive 2008-10-01
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  • This is an opportunity to switch from sanctimony to sacrifice, to show that in journalism ethics are valued over profits?
  • This insufferable self-serving sanctimony about freedom and liberty is more than just annoying, however.
  • Behind the sanctimony is a cliché: McDonald's medicine. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Both the book itself and its reception (as recorded on Amazon. com) expose the sort of pleasure it promotes: that of solidarity in sanctimony. Archive 2007-10-01
  • But with any luck, it will be a eye-feast of hundreds of thousands of good-humored, well-behaved Americans, there to answer the cynicism of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, at which the notion that the election of a black president somehow sullied the nation's dignity was dressed in sanctimony and a display of patriotism so bombastic that it was almost camp. Adele Stan: 4 Reasons Why Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity Is Great for Progressives
  • An exquisitely addictive, high-minded, bare-fisted, low-churchstyle sanctimony. BEHINDLINGS
  • If anything, the movie's sharks home in on presumptuousness and sanctimony like, well, sharks to blood, but it would also be fair to say that the sharks' motivation is, if not arbitrary, unknowable.
  • But the overprivileged sanctimony of Rep. Broun, and the 62 cosponsors of The Sanctity of Life Act, serves only to make the United States a little less free and forgiving for most of us. Ian Squires: Sanctimonious Sanctity
  • Worse than this dippy nonsense is the smug hippie sanctimony Glastonbury attracts.
  • Smug sanctimony is an interesting disease as those infected usually believe they speak for everyone else and are objective observers. EXCLUSIVE: LOAN TORY CHOOSES THIS BLOG TO GO PUBLIC
  • This isn't a plea for sympathy; along with their self-doubt, journalists are given to insufferable vanity and sanctimony.
  • With so much apparently genuine mutual admiration and warm fuzziness in the air, this could be the season that we end up begging Liverpool fans to embark on one of their minute's silences, if only to get temporary respite from the loved-up sanctimony that looks set to submerge Anfield. Very Little To Protest About
  • The microphone; the sampler, the phonograph, the electric guitar, the DJ, all of have infringed upon the sanctimony of contemporary popular music and came out vindicated.

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