All 28 Uses of
righteous
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- The woman's image was burned into his mind--the youth of it, the nakedness, and the righteous indignation--and for some reason the painful image released another, his wife lying still as a dead chicken in the bed, unloved, useless.†
Chpt 1
- The old man was against tobacco--when he had to smoke a pipe for a Grange League play he'd stuffed it with alfalfa and driven the audience out of the hall--but he did not judge a man by his addictions, or countenance the suppression of tobacco by a righteous minority.†
Chpt 3
- "I mean--righteousness," the Old Man said.†
Chpt 3 *
- All righteousness.†
Chpt 4
- And was it from living with Ben, too, that he'd learned that awful righteousness?†
Chpt 4
- There was nothing in him of righteousness, hard doctrine.†
Chpt 5
- It was not a matter of pride with him, and much less righteousness.†
Chpt 5
- I was righteous as you when I was young, Kozlowski.†
Chpt 5
- All your reasons for righteousness will come down on your head like broken beams, and nevertheless you'll go on, because that's the law, son.†
Chpt 5
- A very righteous man.†
Chpt 5
- Don't you think it's just possible that we, as a nation, have perhaps been crippled for world affairs by a slightly excessive sense of righteousness?†
Chpt 5
- Isn't it just possible that the racist's view of the Negro as a person may be nothing other than a megalomaniac projection--that is to say, a feeling of righteousness in one's superiority to a person onto whom one has projected all one has had to repress to become what one has become.†
Chpt 5
- He had nothing but his monstrous righteousness.†
Chpt 7
- JUDGE (aside, scraping his moustache with two fingers): Righteous old fool!†
Chpt 9
- It was true (as Benson would later learn) that Nuper was a distributor of pamphlets, an organizer, a devout radical--a Communist, in fact--willing to lend his talents to any cause he believed to be worthy--and whatever one might finally think of him, he had his most definite, most righteous beliefs.†
Chpt 10
- When other first-graders stood in the playground watching the older children play kickball and dodgeball and steal-the-sticks, learning the mystical secret of play by watching other people do it, Ollie Nuper, full of six-year-old righteousness which both his parents and his teachers admired, retreated to books.†
Chpt 10
- But I warn you well, I too can be driven to righteousness.†
Chpt 11
- A lot of righteousness.†
Chpt 12
- Righteousness!†
Chpt 12
- --the righteousness of those who suppress life!†
Chpt 12
- She could make a laughingstock of him, turn all his sober arguments to the jabbering of a monkey; her very appearance made him clownlike, bumpkinish; and yet his wordless righteousness, more insidious than anything in the play--a righteousness without rational foundation, indefensible and therefore mute--made a gaudy whore of her.†
Chpt 12
- She could make a laughingstock of him, turn all his sober arguments to the jabbering of a monkey; her very appearance made him clownlike, bumpkinish; and yet his wordless righteousness, more insidious than anything in the play--a righteousness without rational foundation, indefensible and therefore mute--made a gaudy whore of her.†
Chpt 12
- Driving down the road with his jaw slung forward and his heart full of possibly righteous indignation--for though he did not ask for justice (no man gets justice, not even a king: the most powerful tyrant may demand his fair share, but not even God, the Lord of Hosts, can force those around him to think of Him as He deserves to be thought of), he did ask, at least, that he not be treated as an absolute fool--Will Hodge Sr grumbled and ground his teeth and said, "All right!"†
Chpt 13
- But Paxton knew that he was ready (whatever else--private sorrows, weariness, righteous indignation--might be stirring behind that iron mask), and at last he said, "What are you after, Hodge?"†
Chpt 13
- Paxton could choose to fight, if he wanted, for righteousness' sake.†
Chpt 13
- Paxton would not murder, though possibly he might have once, in the days when he was hiring scabs or trucking black-market hogs; and despite his anger at all Hodge's house, he would not commit his old age to futile war, not even for righteousness' sake.†
Chpt 13
- The idea filled him with righteous rage.†
Chpt 14
- …things, a mother's sweet and touching madness, a sailorboy walking through a wood with her, holding her hand with a sweet and ridiculous tenderness, and they made pictures with stones and he talked of the weather and she said with, oh, infinite righteousness, that she did not believe in indiscriminate kissing (but she was going to have an operation, and afterward, who knew? perhaps she would see as well as anyone, and then it would be she who talked of the weather--ah, how eagerly! how…†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(righteous as in: a righteous cause) morally correct; or morally justified
or:
acting or feeling morally superior -- especially when it isn't true (this meaning is more typically seen as a compound word beginning with "self-")