Holier in a sentence

I’m also happy to see “Holier Than Thou” back in semi-regular rotation on night one.

It doesn’t help that Adam’s long-ago almost-rishta is in their Umrah group, irritating Zayneb with her holier-than-thou attitude and conveniently spending an awful lot of time with Adam.

So while Newton’s comments about Prescott were out of line, maybe we pump the brakes here a little bit before we anoint the Dallas Cowboys’ starter as holier than thou or one of the better dual-threat quarterbacks this league has ever seen.

Kammenos’s Manuel, shocked by the discovery of his husband’s hidden life and disgusted by his new in-laws, is a testy, twitchy, holier-than-thou pain in the derrière for more than half the show, which is a nice change of pace.

The holier-than-thou Green Party candidate rails against Big Carbon, big banks, Big Pharma—while she holds substantial investments in them.

They are the special ones they said and did worse things while in opposition but now they are holier than thou.

As my departed mother would say “The holier that thou crowd” are the most hypocritical of them all.

Such comments have always seemed at least a little tongue-in-cheek, and more about pointing out the hypocrisy of the holier-than-thou set than about any true befuddlement at how they could do such a thing.

Don’t bother to improve yourself – it’s not necessary – just continue in that holier-than-thou manners of yours; I guarantee that you’ll soon be dying to have a life-coach in your personal employ.

The high road is no longer open for the many arrogant holier than thou fans.

We are all only human and if you think you are holier than thau, think again.

Do not just try to be holier than the Pope, relax, this is the plain truth.

His holier than thou attitude is disgusting and makes his hypocrisy more glaring.

In one of my encounters with the CFO of a leading bluechip oil and gas companies in Nigeria, I also encountered the “holier than thou” syndrome.

It’s the people who are very involved and think they’re justified on that basis or that they’re holier than others on that basis – pride.

Persons who seem to be of influence like messers Daly who can lend their expertise, choose to peer through their “rose colored spectacles on their holier than though thrones”.

That’s not some high-brow, holier-than-thou football commentary.

The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of a martyr, goes the saying of our noble Prophet (peace be upon him).

We live with the continuing tension between holier impulses that encourage us to see the image of God in all human beings and the reality that some of us choose not to see that glimpse of the divine, and instead use other people as means to an end.

Years ago my old boss gave us a sexual harassment seminar and he was pulling his holier than thou routine.