Sentence examples for self-righteous outrage from inspiring English sources

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Nothing so promotes self-righteous outrage like the honest communication of sincerely held beliefs.

It seems so obvious, and yet so startling to see middle-class white American men, arguably the most privileged human beings on the planet (excluding, of course, hereditary aristocracies and the upper classes) fuming with such self-righteous outrage.

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You could also let go of the self-righteous indignation and moral outrage.

Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism.

So kindly spare us the self-righteous indignation.

The overall problem with invoking such labels as "ageist," "sexist" or "racist" in literary criticism is that the labeler often gets a high of self-righteous moral outrage while ignoring the complexer shades, ironies and ambivalences of the person he is attacking.

So who gets the most credit, or blame, for this avalanche of self-righteous, if silly, outrage?

What is needed is not dogmatism, posturing and self-righteous declarations of outrage (on either side of the debate), but careful, rigorous reasoning and scrutiny.

The voice he had in mind was Susan Sontag's in The New Yorker, who had denounced those writers outraged by the terrorist attack for what she called their "self-righteous drivel".

There was some self-righteous nose-thumbing to this: occasionally Herb Sandler would testify before Congress against bank practices that outraged him.

The words Katie Price and taxpayers' money are the sort that can separately invoke outrage-based hernias; put together, they can result in social media collapsing in a pool of self-righteous fury.

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