Accused of self-righteousness by a husband who has abandoned her for a student, Barbara declares: "Surely you must have known when you started porking Pippi Longstocking you were due for a little self-righteousness".
The Mother Abbess, played with steely self-righteousness by Agata Kulesza, insists the pregnancies be kept secret.
Sean: In "Basic Genealogy," when Britta self righteousness gets put to the test as she gets spanked by Troy's nana while he looks on crying.
Anyone who is being honest will admit that our oceans (and thus humanity) are in crisis and yet, in many ways, those who lead this movement continue to succumb to the blinding self-righteousness of adulthood by believing that, as adults, they hold all the answers.
There's a way in which the discourse of the Enlightenment, of reason, is coming under enormous stress from technology and consumerism and the strains of self-righteousness unleashed by social media.
Looking back, I remember feeling defensive in the face of the power of people's reactions (they loved it, they hated it — along with similar feelings toward the book's subjects and its writer), and then a heady season of self-righteousness, followed by stages of anger and sadness at the lack of political will to remedy the longstanding problems the book documents.
Here was a presidency of stubborn self-righteousness tempered by only a cursory understanding of the nation's tradition in the humanities.
One is reminded of John Winthrop, who, in 1630, told the future residents of Massachusetts Bay Colony: "We shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us". Over subsequent decades, Winthrop's sermon became the American mission, fired by self-righteousness and fueled by self-confidence.
But the Frémonts' self-righteousness, if played down by the author, serves as a cautionary and often humorous subtext.
The big clash in the novel pits old-school I.R.S. employees, "driven by self-righteousness," against newer ones with a corporate desire "to maximize revenue".
The difference is that the current enforcers are driven by the self-righteousness of their religious ideology, rather than money.
