Word: righteouseness
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However, there are at least three outstanding jobs. Dan Deitch plays his sour, self-righteous Angelo with a sibilant "S" that makes every word he utters sound selfish and mean. Susan Channing has the part of Isabella to deal with -- one of the most ambiguous roles ever written. Yet she manages to be both touching and priggish, and she is always believable. And Paul Schmidt, though he may not show the power and the glory of the Duke, does do a creditable job with a part that goes on forever and ever...
...wept at the Wailing Wall-tears of grief for the children who lived in those Arab huts cleared away by Israeli bulldozers, for their parents and grandparents who are homeless, or dead; tears of anger at the Israelis who prayed with self-righteous piety before their "holy" wall, oblivious to the suffering of the families driven out to accommodate Jewish religious fanaticism. The picturesque houses and narrow, winding streets have been replaced by a broad courtyard to accommodate 200,000 devout Jews...
...Massachusetts Bay Colony was hardly the place to look for a poet. It was an offshoot of England's Puritan century-righteous, suspicious, humorless and stern. The most trivial event seemed like a personal message from God to be read as a rebuke or reward...
...case, the Supreme Court majority took the position that King could have appealed the injunction and might have won the right to march; instead he chose to defy the law. Wrote Justice Potter Stewart: "No man can be judge in his own case, however exalted his station, however righteous his motives, and irrespective of his race, color, politics or religion...
...share of the market nor Lever's 44% constituted a monopoly, the expense of their competitive practices was "against the public interest." The commission recommended that they cut their promotion budgets by 40%, pass a 20% price reduction on to the consumer. The Board of Trade, taking a righteous stance as the consumer's champion, promised to see the recommendations through...