pharisaical造句

• "This is a very pharisaical approach, " he said.
• The dinosaur, pharisaical church slips away again ."
• The Pharisees preserved the Pharisaical oral law in the form of the Talmud.
• In Rabbinic Judaism and maybe during Pharisaical Judaism, the expectations of marriageable ages were 13 years old for girls and 14 years old for boys.
• At the end of the day _ and it was a long day, replete with pharisaical pronouncements from all sides _ one wonders : Why all this twaddle?
• Gorton's final published work was " Antidote Against Pharisaical Teachers " ( 1656 ), though he left behind an unpublished manuscript of several hundred pages entitled " Exposition upon the Lord's Prayer ".
• On the other hand, if someone tries to do the same thing to the BLP of someone who agrees with their ideology, however, Wikipedia's BLP-related policies suddenly become holy writ, strictly interpreted and strenuously enforced with pharisaical fervor.
• And " while a fragment of Plymouth Rock remains, " the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison later declared, it would " rebuke the pharisaical devotee, the trimming demagogue, the facile conformist, the cowardly persecutor, the effeminate self-seeker " who supported slavery.
• If the rich no longer gawk quite so crassly at the feeding of the poor, the city's vast middle class, after its own big dinner, still indulges in the slightly pharisaical pleasure of watching television news crews invade New York homeless shelters to film celebrity servers and embarrassed diners.
• Pharisees are for example revealed to be extremely dangerous, continually plotting against Jesus even though he often forgave them; at one point, a Pharisaical plot to steal from the Romans is revealed, and at their trial Jesus, whose reputation for keen wisdom is known to the Romans by this time, is consulted.
• :: " It would be thought a Piece of Hypocrisy and pharisaical Ostentation in me, if I should say, that I print these Distichs more with a view to the Good of others than my own private Advantage : And indeed I cannot say it; for I confess, I have so great Confidence in the common Virtue and Good Sense of the People of this and the neighoring Provinces, that I expect to sell a very good impression ."
• The New Testament, particularly the Synoptic Gospels, presents especially the leadership of the Pharisees as obsessed with man-made rules ( especially concerning purity ) whereas Jesus is more concerned with God s love; the Pharisees scorn sinners whereas Jesus seeks them out . ( The Gospel of John, which is the only gospel where Nicodemus is mentioned, particularly portrays the sect as divided and willing to debate ) Because of the New Testament's frequent depictions of Pharisees as self-righteous rule-followers ( see also Woes of the Pharisees and Legalism ( theology ) ), the word " pharisee " ( and its derivatives : " pharisaical ", etc . ) has come into semi-common usage in English to describe a hypocritical and arrogant person who places the letter of the law above its spirit.