But in our partisan self-righteousness, we're destroying our foundations of government more effectively than al Qaeda ever could.
You have quite the ego, and plenty of self-righteousness (I live in Berkeley, and know whereof I write).
Most of his roles embody pious self-righteousness, and that made watching Washington's searing portrayal of evil incarnate particularly satisfying.
Ms Hvistendahl's history is marred by the occasional lapses into self-righteousness and polemic.
Once these heedful communities are downwind of a flock of rotting seagulls they might equitably enjoy the self-righteousness of disdaining nuclear power.
Jellyby from "Bleak House, " that little tornado of conceit and self-righteousness who set herself to rehabilitating the world as she neglected her own family.
This leads to the final problem that has done the most to disappoint OLPC's fans: the hubris, arrogance and occasional self-righteousness of OLPC workers.
We hold ourselves up with self-righteousness as the paragon of democracy and freedom, yet we are quick to stifle the freedom of others we simply don't agree with.
Passion can power a campaign, but self-righteousness can also cripple it.
Eventually, they stopped being evasive and got to the real issue self-righteousness.
So when Mr Mitchell arrives this weekend, he will find unionists and republicans capable of sitting down to negotiate away from the spotlight, but bristling with grievance and self-righteousness in public.
There is an angry self-righteousness to German rhetoric.
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Mr Connerly's detractors have accused him of everything from McCarthyism to self-hatred to being a Ku Klux Klan sympathiser, but he seems untainted by the paranoid self-righteousness that is so common on the American right.
However, when my raiding colleague, annoyed at what he saw as self-righteousness in a later argument, blurted out that I had taken this option, I was a little pained to note that my favorite adult character was clearly disgusted.
But while conservatives can be forgiven for sneering a bit at the way the Obama Administration's moralistic self-righteousness has been succeeded by a quiet, almost embarrassed validation of Bush-era counter-terrorist policy, we need to give credit where credit is due.
While the self-righteousness and contempt for authority common among unreconstructed hippies were evident in many of the interviews Ms. Williams gave following the award's announcement, the truly radical nature of her views really came through when she was challenged on some particulars.
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