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Overall tone: sanctimony, exemplified by the series of "lessons" to the press at the end of the cover story ("no one should read or listen to any media outlet that consistently shows that it is the lapdog of big, official power rather than a respectful skeptic").
Journalists tried to enjoy Zuckerman's egomaniacal self-destruction but were restrained by contempt for Fallows' sanctimony.
But for someone so bent on unmasking pieties, Smiley is not above her own kind of sanctimony.
He said Britain sold arms to at least 30 countries whose human rights records fail to receive the Amnesty International seal of approval and that "British foreign policy has long been a confection of self-interest spiced by opportunism and cling-wrapped in sanctimony."
(Mickey Kaus first noted Stephanopoulos' unbearable sanctimony in this "Chatterbox" item in January.)