Sentence examples for like righteous from inspiring English sources

Which are backed up by challenging exhibits like Righteous Dope Fiend, about heroin addiction.

Hitherto, his projects had looked like righteous but eccentric gestures condemned to play out on the political fringe.

Its avowed reason for occupying Tahrir — the acquittal last week of Mubarak-era officials accused of involvement in the deadly camel charge on protesters in the square last year — looked like righteous camouflage for suppressing an anti-Morsi demonstration.

To the jurors, speaking after their decision on July 14 to award the plaintiffs a record $144.8 billion in punitive damages, Mr. Rosenblatt's rants seemed like righteous anger, not just role-playing by one more lawyer.

I only come here in winter, so I don't know if the truckers ever wear the black T-shirts fronted with lurid 3-D pictures on sale in the store to the side of the diner: Harley-Davidson shirts with the American eagle fierce and sharp-beaked over slogans like "Righteous ruler," or shirts that read "The American way" or "Rollin' free," and show huge semis barnstorming cross-country.

I don't like self-righteous bullies.

It seemed like a righteous mission, and Sonny was going to guide me.

"It felt like a righteous invading tech company coming in to tell us how to run the city," he said.

As Elif Savas Felsen wrote, "If you teach Americans how to cook vegetables and stop yelling at them like some righteous food-health nut, they will learn".

The Brazilian contention is a little like the righteous claim of a new office‐holder to his turn robbing the public till.

I imagine she might have felt some annoyance, but nothing like the righteous indignation implied by her suggestion that the airlines charge heavy people for an extra seat.