sanctimoniousness

• “This kind of christian martyrdom sainthood sanctimoniousness is common with these guys who have messianic tendencies and an inability to admit failure.”

  Think Progress » Brown Resigns, He Should Have Been Fired

• “Determine that you will overcome this sanctimoniousness, which is the curse of a great deal of the religion of this day.”

  Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881

• “sanctimoniousness" which sometimes clings to it, because no other word suggests as well the exact combination of affections which the text goes on to describe.”

  Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature

• “Polly Toynbee: reaches heights of sanctimoniousness and hypocrisy hitherto uncharted.”

  The Evil That Walks Invisible

• “There's a strong element of sanctimoniousness that comes out in almost everything he says, and I think people pick that up.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Playing the Field

• “Well, in Buddhist law, the Gerbil punishment is reserved for those committing the sin of mind-numbingly annoying self-righteous sanctimoniousness.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecution for Insulting Religion — This Time, Buddhism

• “Meanwhile, one of MTV's networks is showing a surprising degree of sanctimoniousness about the whole Sheen situation.”

  The Washington Post: TV nets find more ways to poke and probe Charlie Sheen story

• “He has given sanctimoniousness a new meaning, an entirely new one.”

  The Wall Street Journal: An Imperfect '10

• “Barbara Bush had an air of sanctimoniousness about Katrina's devastation with her "underprivileged anyway" words of patrician moral wisdom.”

  Printing: Starting the Year With A Bloody Muckraking Headache: Taking On The Christofascists

• “On some parts of the political left a belief that the traditional left wing has a monopoly on progressivism is driving a blinkered sanctimoniousness.”

  The Guardian: What is Cameronism? Part two

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