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Examples
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The play, which revolves around two couples struggling through Alcoholics Anonymous, is a funny and unsanctimonious look into the frequent messiness of living clean and sober.
A Dozen Steps to Broadway Lizzie Simon 2011
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When those qualities were combined with pointed social commentary—as is the case in at least three of the films here—the result is that rare cinematic animal: the unsanctimonious message film.
Lessons Without Lectures David Mermelstein 2011
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She's an observer, a listener, but we gradually come to see the inner beauty that distinguishes her from her sisters: an unsanctimonious virtue that sets her apart from her family's naked social ambitions.
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The service – short, unsanctimonious and to the point – went off without a hitch.
State of the Union Douglas Kennedy 2005
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A few ‘unsanctimonious‘ elements of the story (e.g. implied incest and referrals to sex that are made at times) made some people resentful of the author, but I believe that he made the right choices and I respect him for how he handled things.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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A few ‘unsanctimonious‘ elements of the story (e.g. implied incest and referrals to sex that are made at times) made some people resentful of the author, but I believe that he made the right choices and I respect him for how he handled things.
Peter V. Brett - The Painted Man / The Warded Man (Book Review) 2009
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Carl LaFong says: ralph, the house is on fire and you want to stay in it and burn to death because I didn’t tell you this fact in a nice, unsanctimonious way?
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Carl LaFong says: ralph, the house is on fire and you want to stay in it and burn to death because I didn’t tell you this fact in a nice, unsanctimonious way?
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Carl LaFong says: ralph, the house is on fire and you want to stay in it and burn to death because I didn’t tell you this fact in a nice, unsanctimonious way?
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This was his kind of guy — a straight talker, completely open about his beliefs, unsanctimonious, a man’s man without unnecessary polish or attitude.
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