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After his 1996 debacle, Forbes swapped his libertarian-tinged, purely economic conservatism for its opposite--a preachy, self-righteous social conservatism.
The writer, Philip Bowring, said that the West is "in the grip of self-righteous moralising" over preserving colonial boundaries left by the Portuguese.
Slate's Walter Kirn, however, dissents, condemning Nothing Sacred as self-righteous "phony Hollywood iconoclasm."
You don't find it remotely enlightening to share relentless intimacy with someone so angry, self-righteous and strange--and so proud of being candid" ( USA Today ). Most critics call the collection "funny, warm and sagacious" (Regina Marler, the Los Angeles Times ), but there are a few who condemn it as self-absorbed.
Scheck came to personify the grotesque defense attorney, bullying, self-righteous, melodramatic.