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Mr. Anderson was also bugged by what he describes as the holier-than-thou attitude typified by Critical Mass, a monthly gathering of bikers who coast through the city, snarling traffic for hours.

San Francisco Ponders: 2008

In recent years, social psychologists have begun to study what they call the holier-than-thou effect.

Skeptigator skeptigator 2009

Do you think these irrelevant standards are applied any where other than in "holier than thou" America?

Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself' 2009

CHETRY: Well, we've all heard the phrase holier than thou but how hard is it to live exactly the way the bible says you should?

CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2007 2007

There was room in its wide expanse for the gathering of a household about the fire; its embrace was the embrace of love; and it was the type and model of those venerable and hallowed places which have given to the English language a word holier even than "Home," since that word is "Hearth."

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

So Monday I go to the Registro Publico with my documents and my real estate attorney to pay the transfer taxes get my escrituras without the high falutin ', holier than thou Notario Tramposo.

a Notario is not God 1919

So Monday I go to the Registro Publico with my documents and my real estate attorney to pay the transfer taxes get my escrituras without the high falutin ', holier than thou Notario Tramposo.

a Notario is not God 1919

If there’s a certain holier-than-thou purity to my sentiments, it’s true.

Prizes? We Don’t Need No Stinking Prizes! : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

There is no voice transcending the sounds of war, and there must not be such a voice -- nor is there any call holier than the call to war.

For The Attainment Of Peace 1970

The nearer they brought him to a disembodied spirit by meagre diet, the holier should be his prayers in their behalf.

The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849