By E. B. White The New Yorker, February 6 , 1937P. 9 Charity, even of the most unquestionable sort, such as giving money to flood victims, does something queer to us, makes us feel self-righteous, second-rate.
Kelly saw Clinton as a self-righteous First Lady who thought she could help concoct a "unified-field theory of life" that encompassed the social gospel of the nineteenth century, the "temperance-minded Methodism" of the twentieth century, the liberation theology of the sixties and seventies, and "the pacifistic and multiculturally correct religious left of today".
A couple of things sullied my righteous enjoyment: first, it strikes me that she might be pissed.
"Do you want a resolution, or do you want to grind someone else into dust, and be seen as correct and righteous?" A first practical step, says another teacher of meditation, Susan Piver, is to stop trying to get rid of feelings of anger or despair, and focus instead on the physical sensations associated with them.
That was [Anonymous'] first righteous indignation and a moral victory.
On Tuesday she releases "Righteous Love," her first album in five years and the long-delayed follow-up to her Grammy-nominated major-label debut, "Relish".
True to her penchant for cultivating a righteous brand, the first daughter has at least taken baby steps toward good governance, placing her own businesses in a trust.
In most movies -- certainly in most movies directed by or starring Mr. Gibson -- violence against the innocent demands righteous vengeance in the third act, an expectation that Mr. Gibson in this case whips up and leaves unsatisfied.
The Son of Man, however, will institute a fifth, entirely righteous, just, and eternal kingdom.
Just a quick note to mark the occasion of my being moved to write to you out of dumbstruck admiration instead of righteous indignation for the first time in ages.
