Confident and righteous in my own progressive approach, I spent one breaktime suggesting to the scruffy urchin in question that we, y'know, get together some time.
Through him, we are justified and righteous in God's eyes.
Eyre also backed to the hilt Tony Kushner's Angels in America: a fantasia on political themes that embraced Aids, Mormonism, the approach of the millennium, the growing power of both the right and the righteous in the supposed melting pot of the disunited States.
It's a rare old festival of joy and righteous living in the feel-good international Latin club style, and is so well executed it is certain to be a hit in its target territories.
There are three main ways to understand Clemens's position of vociferous denial and righteous indignation in the face of potentially damaging evidence against him.
Be a thoughtful and righteous person in the world.
His father, a factory worker and a preacher — "he was righteous in the pulpit," Baldwin said, "and a monster in the house" — had died insane, poisoned with racial bitterness.
According to Kennan, when American policymakers suddenly confronted the Cold War, they had inherited little more than rationale and rhetoric "utopian in expectations, legalistic in concept, moralistic in [the] demand it seemed to place on others, and self-righteous in the degree of high-mindedness and rectitude ... to ourselves".
The trouble with "Walking Into the Wind" is that it radiates a sour disdain for its hero, who is made out to be a vain, boastful fellow, self-deluding and self-righteous in the extreme.
He has taken into himself our wealth, our concupiscence, all the sins of the world that we had accumulated, and returned with them to the world, that we might be made righteous in the eyes of God.
