We crave a narrative that restores righteousness, but are left with scraps of barely connected meaning.
They seem bathed in a light of righteousness as compensation for having been left so long in the dark.
The United States sadly left that path of righteousness after Sept. 11, 2001, and engaged in torture.
It attacks the self-righteousness of the Southern aristocracy and left me soaked to the skin, sweaty with "the South".
The impression has been left — reflected in half-measures and bursts of righteousness — of a nation unwilling to accept responsibility for dealing with Europe's grief via transfers of German sovereignty or cash to a (notional) central European authority.
The campaign, the whispers go, left a legacy of political correctness masquerading as racial righteousness that could prove enduringly damaging.
The battle over the debt ceiling is a contest between grown-up sobriety and juvenile righteousness, which doesn't leave much choice.
Until not long ago, Christopher Hitchens, the British-born journalist, was a valued asset of the American left: an intellectual willing to show his teeth in the cause of righteousness.
By Ian Parker Until not long ago, Christopher Hitchens, the British-born journalist, was a valued asset of the American left: an intellectual willing to show his teeth in the cause of righteousness.
On the contrary, the fact that workers were not radicalised turned the far left organisations into self-contained sects, whose impotence was sublimated into aimless doctrinal righteousness.
