irreproachability

Whenever someone or something reaches the status of irreproachability we need to deeply reexamine our polarized perspective because, as we know, absolute power corrupts absolutely as does absolute support absolutely corrupt the thing or person supported because it gives it undo license.

Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 09/23/09 2009

A phrase we saw printed on a large plastic bag in Tokyo—it was the irreproachability of the woman carrying it, an elderly woman in traditional garb, that made us laugh so hard, made us remember it still.

Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

Mystifyingly, he was supported by a host of enormously impressive, likable and decent people, who cited his many honours, won since he fled sentencing in California, as a token of his irreproachability.

Polanski's 'genius' is only a defence to the morally vacuous 2010

A phrase we saw printed on a large plastic bag in Tokyo—it was the irreproachability of the woman carrying it, an elderly woman in traditional garb, that made us laugh so hard, made us remember it still.

Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

Now that presents a considerable barrier to debate – those that recognise the brutality of the occupation have difficulty contending with arguments that pre-suppose Israeli irreproachability.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Everything runs together in our infotainment-rich society, there's no line of dignity or irreproachability that seemed to exist in the past.

Pen-Elayne on the Web 2003

The fate of General Gordon, so intricately interwoven with such a mass of complicated circumstance—with the policies of England and of Egypt, with the fanaticism of the Mahdi, with the irreproachability of Sir Evelyn Baring, with Mr. Gladstone’s mysterious passions—was finally determined by the fact that Lord Hartington was slow.

The End of General Gordon: Paras. 67-99 1918

Upon occasion, where the circumstances really seem to warrant a little fervor, you only get from the author of “The Portrait of a Lady” irreproachability.

Criticisms and Interpretations. II. From “The Nation” 1917

She had dreamed that some inward irreproachability of thought, some light-hearted tact of open conduct, might leave still untainted that deeper core of thought and feeling which she had long thought of as conscience, while some deceiving and sophistical transmutation of values whispered to her adroitly that in some way all good might be bad, and that all bad might in some way be good.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

By our standards-and even by the standards of some in his day-the Great Emancipator's racial politics fall far short of irreproachability.

Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories 2009