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By keeping concentration-camp obscenity off-screen, while referring to it obliquely through sci-fi sound effects and abstract visual metaphors, Glazer invites a new, smart-aleck sanctimony.
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Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
This breeds a funny mix of pugilism and sanctimony that can be, frankly, a little unlikable.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
The theory is that awards show viewers are there for the frocks and starry frivolity, not sanctimony and hectoring.
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
The sanctimony that Brown sniffs at certainly exists, but a little bit of the holy spirit is probably necessary to report on contemporary America.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
This breeds a funny mix of pugilism and sanctimony that can be, frankly, a little unlikable.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
The theory is that awards show viewers are there for the frocks and starry frivolity, not sanctimony and hectoring.
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
The sanctimony that Brown sniffs at certainly exists, but a little bit of the holy spirit is probably necessary to report on contemporary America.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for sanctimony
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“Sanctimony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanctimony. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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