piety, sanctimony, valise, self-congratulation, self-congratulatory, China’s parliament can justify new rubber stamp

China’s rubber-stamp parliament could be a forum for more substantive debate this year. The weeklong “Two Sessions” of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference are usually scripted, self-congratulatory affairs. The 2022 agenda might be hurriedly rewritten as Ukraine and Hong Kong disrupt plans.

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to keep many matters from the Freiherr, in order to spare his piety on the one hand, on the other, not to provoke his ferocious temper.

Paul Muldoon’s poetry, suspicious of sanctimony and frankly addicted to puns, dares us to ask: is he serious?

Everybody Hates Don Imus
By FRANK RICH
In the wake of Don Imus’s racist and sexist comments, there’s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from all sides.

self-congratulatory

/ˌsɛlfkənˈɡratjʊlət(ə)ri/

adjective

1. unduly complacent or proud regarding one's personal achievements or qualities; self-satisfied.

   "his website is smug and self-congratulatory"

valise 

音節

 

va • lise

 

発音

 

vəlíːs|-líːz

1. [名詞] ((米)) スーツケース，旅行かばん(suitcase，traveling bag).

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Pronunciation: /ˈpʌɪəti/

Definition of piety in English:

noun (plural pieties)

[MASS NOUN]

1The quality of being religious or reverent:acts of piety and charity

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1.1[COUNT NOUN] A belief which is accepted with unthinking conventional reverence:the accepted pieties of our time

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Origin

Early 16th century (in the sense 'devotion to religious observances'): from Old French piete, from Latinpietas 'dutifulness', from pius (see pious).

1. [名詞] (pl. -ties)
2. 1 敬神の念，篤信；敬虔けいけんさ.
3. 2 ((古)) (親・民族などにする)忠誠心，忠義，孝心，愛国心
   • filial piety
   • 孝行，孝心
   • Let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents.
   • まず自分の家族を大切にし，親に恩返しをすることを学ばせるべきです
   • 〈〔聖書〕 1 Tim.5：4〉.
4. 3 信心深い行為，敬虔な言葉［信仰］
   • the pieties and sacrifices of an austere life
   • 質素な生活における信心深い言行と犠牲的行為.

［語源］

中期英語 piete＜中期フランス語＜ラテン語 piets (pius より；→PIOUS)

sanctimony

(săngk'tə-mō'nē)
n.
Feigned piety or righteousness; hypocritical devoutness or high-mindedness.

[Obsolete French sanctimonie, from Latin sānctimōnia, sacredness, from sānctus, holy. See sanctify.]