I don't think this belief should be confused, as it has been recently, with self-righteousness.
Consoling myself with self-righteousness daydreams, I reminded myself that all work is worthy.
"It's more enjoyable to see nature with no garbage in it," he said, brimming with self-righteousness.
The resort to brute military force is accompanied, as always, by the shrill rhetoric of victimhood and a farrago of self-pity overlaid with self-righteousness.
I would much prefer a situation where adequately financed public schools produced leaders bent on making peace through diplomacy than war fraught with self-righteousness.
She continued, "When boundaries are healthy, they aren't fixed, etched in stone, or filled with self-righteousness.
When some people see things like Talia Jane's piece about Yelp, they basically orgasm with self-righteousness.
With self-righteousness, we see these ill-informed, pig-headed people as the toddler who is "always wrong but never in doubt".
We need to be careful of piety -- that is, the dutiful obedience that is so often tinged with self-righteousness and pride.
They fume and sputter and spew their bile with unctuous self righteousness and a willing army of believers, eager for someone to blame who does not look like themselves.
Other authors also address Rutherford's abrasiveness: James Penton describes him as blunt and moody with an explosive temper, with "a streak of self-righteousness which caused him to regard anyone who opposed him as of the Devil", while Alan Rogerson notes that he was a "dogmatic and insensitive person, obsessed with his own self-importance".
