It was the neocons who pioneered the hypocritical "human rights" discourse that justified Reaganite revanchism in the 1980s, they who pioneered the practice of appropriating the language of leftist internationalism for reactionary purposes.
Baffling, visionary, obstinate and brilliant, Mr. Bloomberg had complications that could be maddeningly hypocritical or endearingly human.
In Dakar, several Senegalese intellectuals said it was hypocritical of Western human rights organizations to pursue Mr. Habre now, given their governments' previous support.
Having noble ancestors who were all too human — hypocritical, prideful, lustful, greedy, preening — is heartening, not discouraging, for the fact that such men could master their failings to build, not to destroy, should give us hope that we might be able to do the same.
It is Israel's continuing refusal to have an impartial and open investigation that has allowed the hypocritical violators of human rights in other countries to unfairly gang up on Israel in the UN, ignoring what the report itself called Hamas's war crimes in shelling Israeli towns in southern Israel.
Plus, there is an inherent question as to why people who are socially conscious would pollute the atmosphere and their own bodies with smoke — other than because they share the often hypocritical nature of most human beings.
All sports fans are arrogant and hypocritical, perhaps because all human beings are arrogant hypocritical, never more so than when they break themselves up in groups.
There were times in school when I was told that "infidels" take a hypocritical stance on justice and human rights out of spite, to sully Muslim women and denigrate Islam.
With his leadership on D.A.D.T., Lieberman not only returned to his roots in matters of civil rights, he also showed himself capable of something far, far nobler than querulous, hypocritical prudery in matters of human sexuality.
His Foreign Ministry official for U.S. affairs, Josefina Vidal, has described the U.S. focus on human rights as hypocritical.
Sometimes the two don't match, though not because I'm hypocritical but because I'm human.
