His careful research and evenhandedness free the book of the "whale hugger" baggage that makes so many contemporary cetacean investigations saccharinely trite or sanctimonious — the kind of sanctimony Burnett reminds us triggered the noxious '90s punk rock lyric "Nuke the Whales" and other bad cultural beats.
Twitter briefly buckles under a level of infuriating sanctimony that science had previously thought impossible.
The Gadarene rush of the Watergate-era students into media and the law was prefigured in Doonesbury and it can claim to have predicted Jimmy Carter's sad descent from piety to sanctimony, the hollowness of Reagan's feel-good nostrums, the short electoral life of George Bush's desert victories, and the indecisive disappointments of Bill Clinton.
Every third person who tweets anything today has inexplicably taken on the persona of a fully annoying trendy vicar, dripping in unearned sanctimony as they tell you how, like, voting's really cool.
One such guru, Warren Bennis, has even suggested that Mr Harman is the model that the post-Enron generation should emulate.In another man, the Harman approach might come wrapped in ideology or sanctimony.
And as a rich young man, he is not going to rob anyone to pay for his alleged recreation.It is no surprise, perhaps, that the News of the World has cloaked its exposure of Mr Dallaglio in sanctimony.
His sanctimony, his false humility, his ingratiating smile, his longing to cut a dash on the international stage are all very hard to endure.
The sanctimony of the KMT, once one of the world's most thuggish and corrupt political parties, but largely spared by the present judicial system, is grotesque.
To be known as Titus Twist, he is an apprentice to a coffin-maker and survives against all odds in an urban jungle akin to the vast slums of Nairobi, Kenya's capital.How would Dickens's Artful Dodger, the pickpocket friend of Oliver/Titus, handle the venality of Kenya's modern politicians, the hypocrisy of its churchmen or the sanctimony of foreign charity-dispensing NGOs?
Embattled faith Other men's wars What the world is reading A real grouch Reprints Related topics Philip RothYet after his first enticing few pages, further references to the "ecstasy of sanctimony" surrounding the Monica Lewinsky scandal prove disappointingly few.
Fighting an uncharacteristic dislike, Ames becomes convinced that Jack is waiting for him to die, that Jack might scoop up the elderly minister's lovely young wife and child for himself.Above all, "Gilead" is about faith, one free of sweetness or sanctimony.
