Sentence examples for turn righteous from inspiring English sources

Though he can sometimes turn righteous on other people's shows (as he did on "Crossfire" in 2004), on his own Mr. Stewart is playful, self-mocking and merciless.

In the face of "evil," the idealists tend to turn righteous and forget to ask important questions about what they want to achieve and how.

It did not quite occur to me that these older women were watching to see what direction this intimacy might take and that they were ready to turn righteous if the doctor should decide to drop me.

With a slight shift of emphasis, "Snow White and the Huntsman" might have been her story, the tale of a victim turned righteous avenger.

This new version, with book by Joe DiPietro ("I Love you, You're Perfect, Now Change") and music by the Bon Jovi member David Bryan, is at least the third attempt to transform Melvin, the geek turned righteous monster of the movie, into a Sweeney Todd for our times.

Edward Woodward, a British actor with a long résumé in television and theater who was best known in the United States as the star of "The Equalizer," a dramatic series about an ex-spy turned righteous vigilante in New York City, died on Monday in Truro, Cornwall, England.

McCain's response to Bush's Haskell gambit will be instructive to future candidates: he dropped his own negative ads and turned righteous; he talked about wanting to be President in the "best way," not the worst; he congratulated himself for "inspiring a new generation" of voters.

And when articles and broadcasts balance ammo for your side with ammo for the other side, they're guilty of the fallacy of false equivalence, which turns righteous battles between right and wrong into vapid he-said/she-said standoffs.

History shows us that the overwhelming forces of hate will try to provoke these visionary youth and turn their righteous indignation into a reason to repress them.

There is nothing more painful than watching a comedian turn self-righteous.

Morrissey turns his righteous heat up on Page 2. The Poisonous Fool Andy Rourke.