Sentence examples for righteous from from inspiring English sources

The violence cutting through the US gives way, mercifully, to an image of nonviolent heroism that recalls the righteous, from Martin Luther King to Rosa Parks.

Having died, having been judged unexpectedly worthy, you--new recruit--find yourself transposed up the infinite octaves that now separate you, the truly righteous, from the rest of those deadbeats left down below.

Many are named among the 24,811 Righteous from 47 countries – all those, rich and poor, Christian, Muslim and atheist, rural and urban, who helped Jews escape the Nazi regime – at the Israeli Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem.

Perhaps the most disquieting aspect of Rand's and Christian conservative compassion is that it exculpates the morally righteous from responsibility for stigma, discrimination, and other forms of harm toward the morally "undeserving".

In "The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats," Jesus says that when he returns again, all the nations of the earth will be gathered before him, and he will begin separating the good from the bad -- the righteous from the unrighteous (see Matthew 25 31-46).

That's what distinguishes the self-righteous from the righteous, and that's what fuels "The Newsroom," a new HBO series by Aaron Sorkin that starts on Sunday.

Now this Hip Hop Whore isn't the back alley, do-anything-for $10 kind of whore, but she's a whore nonetheless, and she is far removed from the Poor Righteous Teacher from whence she came.

Certainly Joe Pavelski or Logan Couture are in the running, but Thornton's been doing one thing during these playoffs that matters a lot (aside from dancing and defending his righteous beard from assault): providing assists.

After his first century in this series in Brisbane, Warner provoked righteous indignation from the whole England camp, from Andy Flower down, for questioning Jonathan Trott's readiness for the fight against Mitchell Johnson.

And from 1965, when another faraway war got its jolt of righteous escalation from Washington's certainty, Richard Farina wrote: "And death will be our darling and fear will be our name".

Though the comparison was not as direct, Handel fared better in the next pairing, Caldara's gracefully filigreed "Lo so, lo so: con periglio" ("I know, I know: it is dangerous") from the oratorio "Joaz," and Handel's bright, vibrant "Scorta siate" ("Righteous heaven") from the opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto".