Sentence examples for old righteous from inspiring English sources

John Ames is steeped in this local history — his grandfather was a zealot in the old, righteous antislavery cause — and Jack Boughton is aware of it, too.

"We are all harmed ― young, old, righteous, ratchet, and all between," he said.

There's nothing like a bunch of self righteous older commentators telling you that something is a thoroughly bad thing to get her target market to part with their cash, regardless of the quality of what they're buying.

Or bold, righteous revolutionaries?

"People know that the old story, of the righteous Israeli soldier setting out to fight the big enemy, doesn't really reflect what's happening.

Yet the story works very well in the theatre – a medium perhaps even better suited to evoking the swelteringly repressive atmosphere of the Old South and the righteous fury at the treatment of farm labourer Tom Robinson.

But if the enthusiasm and momentum generated by an Old Trafford rocking with righteous indignation last night can be harnessed by the Knights, then the cynics may yet be proved wrong.

But in presenting rock writing in such a high-end format, they point up what might have been lost: the fast-turning pop-cultural wheel, ink coming off on your fingers, the old idea of the righteous and precious existing in the midst of cheapness and absurdity.

Joseph Catholic Church, built 10 years earlier, has blue windows that create a blue-tinged interior; and just up the street is the red-brick, Byzantine-revival Temple Gemiluth Chassed (roughly, Gift of the Righteous), the oldest existing synagogue in Mississippi, built in 1891 but no longer in use.

Old grumpy-pants self-righteous me might have thought I was right.

He said America's inherently populist tendencies will topple the movement if it doesn't move beyond the same old fights and self-righteous justifications.