Sentence examples for righteousness to from inspiring English sources

Because maybe there is some righteousness to golf, after all.

The musicians didn't cede faith, patriotism or righteousness to Republicans.

There's a presumed righteousness to it – a notion that the knocks are deserved.

"That's what lends righteousness to the rage of activists campaigning against what they see as cynical distortions of those ideas".

The Germans, of course, are hardly alone in allowing their sense of righteousness to get in the way of sensible policy.

"War seemed a foregone conclusion" because there was no "incentive to budge, to question one's own righteousness, to create the grounds on which a compromise might occur".

In Germany, it has accentuated a natural frugality and brought a latent sense of national self-righteousness to the surface.

As for America's involvement in Cold War proxy wars in the Third World, he wrote, "it requires a measure of self-righteousness to see unilateral measures as an act of collective security".

And yet, when it comes to the sovereign-debt crisis, Germany is prepared to live with the risk of economic meltdown.There is an angry self-righteousness to German rhetoric.

Fernando was keen that you didn't go, "Oh, isn't she brilliant, and lovely, and admirable?" It's more believable that she's committed, but she's also a right pain in the ass.' Weisz brings just the right mixture of passion and self-righteousness to the role, to the point where you can almost imagine her once being this kind of politically engaged animal.

Richard Mouw, president of the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, a major evangelical school, argued that such prayers "call people together in a position of self-righteousness, to talk about people who they think are more sinful than they are, and that is a dangerous thing".