Sentence examples for almost righteous from inspiring English sources

He can sound almost righteous on this point.

Gale is a "leader of men," full of a powerful, almost righteous belief in Yorkshire's right to rule the earth.

With an almost righteous sense of certainty that Mr. Bush had won, a legal rationale from conservative scholars and the swagger of street fighters, they vowed to press forward with the legal battle they began just hours before.

(Lots of teachers work summer jobs!) Had Uber tweaked the language the slightly, with a pinch of outrage—"Every day teachers are asked to do more with less, constantly faced with new challenges and limited resources, and it astounding that they have to use Uber to generate those resources"—it would seem almost righteous, rather than crassly exploitative of the ills of the American education system.

McKay and his co-writer, Charles Randolph, make their mission look almost righteous, as these men expose flaws in the system by exploiting them for their own gain.

The students' "complete frustration and almost righteous indignation" with the government, as Brown put it, has a recent historical parallel: activism against the Iraq War, which reshaped the Democratic Party and catalyzed a generation of progressive leaders.

The most memorable shot in Risk acknowledges this by depicting him walking out of court flanked by Amal Clooney and an intense media scrum, face completely inscrutable except for a subtle and almost indistinct righteous smugness that has become synonymous now with men who work and play on the internet.

Delphine, whose passivity mutates into a steely, almost self-righteous determination, is driven by her own hunger for experience.

He once wore the No 18 on his back, as a combative midfielder who played with a fierce, almost self-righteous sense of his own authority; now, he represents to the club's fans so many aspects of their identity: Irish background, Catholicism, an unabashed defiance, and persecution.

Franzen's presentation of Joey and Jenna stands in contrast to myriad novels in which a male protagonist falls for a woman for little reason other than her beauty, and then seems not merely disappointed but also angry, almost self-righteous, when she turns out not to be exactly the person he wanted her to be.

"I mean, what self-respecting kid is going to respond to that?" If Wood has an almost self-righteous sense of certainty about how to engage children, it's because she has more than 25 years of experience in children's television to back her up.