My personal opinion about the word is that it allows for a certain amount of sanctimoniousness on the part of both blacks and whites.
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"There is a dramatic sanctimoniousness about having children, " says Ilene Bilenky, a Boston psychiatric nurse and freelance copy editor.
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What is changed is the climate, that low-lying cloud of sanctimoniousness that used to hang over the city, blocking the sun.
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And there are just about enough small, critical moments like that to save " Saint Maybe " from a quicksand of sentimentality and sanctimoniousness.
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An arbitrarily concocted " rulebook " and language rife with self-referential sanctimoniousness give a superficial illusion of order and good sense, but no such thing exists in practice.
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"Virtue " didn't take on its acrid sanctimoniousness until the Victorian age, when it was used to approve of behavior that furthered the goals of Colonialism and jingoism.
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Vianne sparkles like an oily diamond, and she's such an aggressively good-natured, wholesome supporter of fun that, in contrast, sanctimoniousness doesn't seem so bad.
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The ill-fated illusions of the groveling stylists, the greed, venality and sanctimoniousness of the Oscar smear campaign _ these were just the kinds of things that Wilder, the brilliant Austro-Hungarian director, delighted in satirizing.
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The specific charges against the media are familiar by now : sensationalism, rumor-mongering, overreliance on unnamed sources, sanctimoniousness, speculation, salaciousness, leaping to judgment and losing all sense of proportion and self-control, to name a few.
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His " Venus " ( 1912 ) is a willfully naive, slightly parodic nude on rough canvas, incorporating the style of children's drawings as part of his rebellion against what Larionov called " Greco-Roman sanctimoniousness ."
