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I think of the Apostle Paul, the very model of evangelical Christianity, who was saved from his own Moore-like pharisaical hatreds by an encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus.

The priggish, boorish, pharisaical right raged against him, and he soldiered on.

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What shall be done to remove their noble and pharisaical indolence?

In Catholic countries there is more courtesy, for charity is there a duty, and must be done for God's sake; there is less room for a man to give himself the pharisaical tone about it.

Was there nothing pharisaical in the temper of this welcome?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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