In reality, though, we are hardly facing an epidemic of self-righteous women wasting police time with unimportant issues.
But you hardly need to be reminded that the righteous indignation inflaming German hearts and minds in the 1930s was not too dissimilar in nature.
He writes: " That religious evolution is simply the rise, onward and upward, of ever more compassionate, more righteous, more enlightened religions could hardly be farther from the truth".
This witchcraft may be righteous stuff, but it could hardly be called benevolent.
And though Mr. Abrams, a lifelong liberal Democrat, was hardly anti-Italian, he could be self-righteous, a trait reinforced by his grudging apology.
A drug addict with the obsessive self-regard of the righteous in defense of a cause, he was hardly a saint.
People by now should hardly be surprised to learn that a powerful man and/or righteous scold is a dirty bird, but, even allowing for worldliness, the news was staggering — as much for the stupidity as for the sex.
"How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause," the quotation read.
That hardly suits a subject whose preferred sound is the self-righteous roar.
What's more, although the movement is frequently framed as the righteous refusal of a male-centered obstetric history, its roots are hardly sisterly.
It was hardly a new topic — payback has been the common currency of cowboys and samurai, rogue cops and righteous criminals, for a very long time — but in noncomic genres vengeance could seem like the only game in town.
