I read it over again, and understood that if the King recommended me to be firm, it was because he needed to be firm himself. I soon mastered my emotion, and looked at things in their real light. It was easy to see that sanctimonious fanatics had forced the King to act. Bossuet was not sanctimonious, but, to serve his own ends, proffered himself as spokesman and emissary, being anxious to prove to his old colleagues that he was on the side of what they styled moral conduct and good example.英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan》
The mob testified its affectionate admiration by dubbing him `Charley,' and remembered with effusion his last grim pleasantry. `What is the scaffold?' he asked with sublime earnestness. And the answer came quick and sanctimonious: `A short cut to Heaven!'英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
"Such conduct is only worthy of a Jacobin!" said the sanctimonious Angelique.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
"Oh, we know you," exclaimed half a dozen voices; "you needn't roll your sanctimonious eyes; that game don't take in this country. Come, straddle the rail, and REMEMBER THE STACK-YARD!"英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》
The four hours of this light work for some reason exhausted me, so that I could not sit bending over the table nor write. From below I heard from time to time a smothered moan; it was my wife sobbing. Alexey, invariably meek, sleepy, and sanctimonious, kept coming up to the table to see to the candles, and looked at me somewhat strangely.英文原著 · 《The Wife and Other Stories》
The members of the firm sat in their private office. Sloper was a long, sanctimonious individual, very religious and very bald. Dodge was a little, fat American, with bristly, black hair and beard, and quick, beady eyes. He was eternally smoking a reeking black pipe, and puffing the smoke through his nose in great whiffs, like a locomotive on a steep grade. Anybody walking into one of those whiffs was liable to get paralysis.英文原著 · 《Three Elephant Power》
So the headmaster, sanctimonious though he sure is, turns out is a good man after all.美剧 · 《Billions》
please, take your sanctimonious judgment and park it somewhere else.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
The sanctimonious academic, looking down on the star pupil because of her thousand-dollar shoes!美剧 · 《Modern Family》