Remember, genetically, we're far more bonobo than righteous, and "harem culture" answers the simian call.
Of Emerson's reluctance to join the militant abolitionists, it has to be explained that he had "initial scruples about joining what today seems a far more self-evidently righteous cause than it did to the great majority of nineteenth-century northern whites in the 1840s and 1850s".
"I do think that the article was sensationalised and given a far more contentious, self-righteous tone than my original; news platforms must know when they're editing articles to come across more aggressively that they're also driving more abuse to the writer; more rape threats and sexual abuse if she is a woman, more racism if the writer isn't white, and this leaves a really bad taste in my mouth".
"I do think that the article was sensationalized and given a far more contentious, self-righteous tone than my original; news platforms must know when they're editing articles to come across more aggressively that they're also driving more abuse to the writer; more rape threats and sexual abuse if she is a woman, more racism if the writer isn't white, and this leaves a really bad taste in my mouth".
Or Hanif Kureishi's Sleep With Me whose title was far more entertaining than its sour, self-righteous content.
That's one reason I was delighted to encounter campaign material hawking Spencer Blackhart for Mayor, who boasts that "This election is about convictions and, if you look at my record, I have far more than any other candidate!" Self-righteous conservative bigots litter the landscape of literature as well as real life.
Too much of the movie is played out in bursts of righteous indignation that seem far more like acting exercises than intellectual exchange.
STEVE FANKUCHEN Oakland, Calif., 4 44 p.m., March 17, nytimes.com While Qadhi and his students express endless grievances against American sins in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, they should reserve some of that righteous anger for the far more egregious oppression imposed by the leaders of many Islamic countries on their own populations.
Scalia is right, that America is blessed, and not by being a bastion of righteousness and for it's overwhelming faithfulness to God, but for the sake of America's righteous inhabitants (and there are far more than three here).
So, pro-gay/pro-drag or not, before you fly into a righteous rage that will likely cause far more confusion than the song-and-dance number itself, use this moment as a tool for learning and discussion.
