However, there was more than naked thirst for power in Fox's seemingly hypocritical Tory assertion.

Lahr wrote that Edna took Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's " seemingly hypocritical motto " of " caring and compassion " for others and turned it on its head, Edna became the voice of Humphries ' outrage.

This was a plausible strategy against British imperialism or American institutional racism, as these oppressions were seemingly hypocritical given that the United Kingdom and United States societies espoused freedom and equality for all citizens, and would have been impossible in an antebellum United States.

He closes his law practice, avoids his former colleagues in particular and people in general, and throws himself completely into uncompromising debauchery ; while humankind may be grossly hypocritical in the areas from which he has withdrawn, " no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures " ( Camus 311-a quotation from Samuel Johnson ).

In this song called " Dope man " they mock the Dutch soft drug policy, which in their eyes is hypocritical.

Aldo Bonnard ( played by Jean-Pierre Darroussin ) is about to divorce his wife Alice ( Valeria Bruni Tedeschi ) while his new boss, Gérard ( Richard Berry ), is a hypocritical man.

* Bishop of Basingstoke-A hypocritical, sadistic, sexually driven man of the cloth and a member of the Board of Governors.

The opening track is a cover of the classic hit " Tutti Frutti " by Little Richard, " Let Me Try " is a ballad, " The American Ruse " attacks what the Detroit quintet saw as the hypocritical idea of freedom espoused by the US government, and " The Human Being Lawnmower " expresses opposition to the US involvement in the Vietnam War.

Despite his initial fascination for and admiration of Mao, Li expresses his growing disgust and contempt for Mao beginning at this point due to the leader's hypocritical assertion that the population at large must adopt a sexually conservative lifestyle.

Gérard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis and Africa's World War, expresses skepticism of the claims that génocidaires were a significant factor in the massacre and characterizes the Kibeho as being a miniature version of the characteristics of the invasion of Zaire that would occur 18 months later: " nontreatment of the consequences of genocide, well-meaning but politically blind humanitarianism, RPF resolve to ' solve the problem ' by force, stunned impotence of the international community in the face of violence, and, finally, a hypocritical denial that anything much had happened.

He could also take it upon himself to annex Syria before it could possibly fall into the hands of a rival, but feared that attacking a land that formerly belonged to his master — which is forbidden in the Islamic principles he followed — could portray him as hypocritical and thus, unsuitable for leading the war against the Crusaders.

) He had opposed the Life Peerages Act and felt it would be hypocritical to accept a life peerage himself since no prime minister ever offered him a hereditary peerage.

As a result, he comes to see himself as duplicitous and hypocritical.

This left Kant in the ironic or hypocritical position of trying to free himself of ridicule while at the same time applying ridicule to Swedenborg.

" Tatchell had himself previously outed religious figures he viewed as hypocritical and homophobic, but he felt that Manji was neither hypocritical nor homophobic, so the MCB's action in drawing attention to her sexuality was, he said, unjustified.

They also reject Trotskyism and its " Permanent Revolution " as " hypocritical " by arguing that Leon Trotsky himself had at one time thought it acceptable that socialism could work in a single country as long as that country was industrialized, but that Trotsky had considered Russia too backward to achieve such industrialization – what it later in fact did achieve, mostly through his archenemy Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans.

Marshal Law ’ s loathing of the Public Spirit as standing for everything that is fraudulent and hypocritical about superheroes leads him to suspect the Spirit himself of being responsible for the Sleepman ’ s crimes ; without any proof, though, the guilty party goes unpunished until a surprising revelation from a former superheroine reveals that the Marshal ’ s suspicions may not be too far from the truth.

Bose himself opposed all manner of such colonial practices, but saw Britain as hypocritical in " fighting a war for democracy " but refusing to extend the same respect for democracy and equal rights to their colonial subjects in India.

While it serves as the backdrop against which the events of the novel unfold, Murakami ( through the eyes of Toru and Midori ) portrays the student movement as largely weak-willed and hypocritical.

We've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you .... You're thoroughly all right "— a remark that could either be interpreted as a " ringing endorsement " that " legitimized the singer with an adult audience " or as " a somewhat hypocritical statement considering what the CBS censors had just done to his performance on that show.

The motivation of a rake to change his libertinistic ways is either hypocritical ( Falsewits ) or honest ( Truewits ).

As with the misconception that Marlow is hypocritical, only a few characters in Heart of Darkness are actually depraved.

Indeed, there are several prominent quotes in which Kook is quite critical of the more modern-orthodox Religious Zionists ( Mizrachi ), whom he saw as naive and perhaps hypocritical in attempting to synthesize traditional Judaism with a modern and largely secular ideology.

Jews are said to be treacherous and hypocritical and could never be friends with a Muslim.

Because of the poll blackout, there are no published reports which track the effect of 313 on Taiwanese public opinion, although anecdotal reports suggest that Pan-Blue supporters were deeply moved by Lien's actions while Pan-Green supporters saw them as disgusting and hypocritical.

Lauder said: “ Such boycott calls are cynical and hypocritical.

On January 25, 2007, Representative Tom Tancredo, R-CO., spoke out against the continued existence of the CBC as well as the Democratic Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Republican Congressional Hispanic Conference saying, " It is utterly hypocritical for Congress to extol the virtues of a color-blind society while officially sanctioning caucuses that are based solely on race.

In March 2010, in response to David Miliband's statement that the Israeli cloning of British passports is " intolerable ", he commented: " I think the British are being hypocritical, and I do not wish to insult dogs here, since some dogs show true loyalty, who gave the British the right to judge us on the war on terror?

The term " liberal elite " often carries the implicit connotation that the individuals described by the term are hypocritical.

The faces of his figures have an air of rapt suavity, devotional fervency and beaming esoteric consciousness, which is intensely attractive to some minds ...... the faces becoming sleek and prim, with a smirk of sexless religiosity which hardly eludes the artificial or even the hypocritical ; because of this, there are some who are not moved by his work.

The perps in Drylands are all her usual suspects: racists, developers, hypocritical gung-ho civic go-gooders, and assorted unreconstructed male-supremacist swine ".

They also tend to dissociate themselves from their flaws or what they believe are flaws ( such as negative emotions ) and can become hypocritical and hypercritical of others, seeking the illusion of virtue to hide their own vices.

According to Bacar, some of the countries backing military intervention are undemocratic themselves, and it was hypocritical for them to try to " give lessons in democracy "; he said that an invasion would ultimately solve nothing and that he was ready to fight and die if necessary.

The play proper begins with a proctor and amateur dramatist Littlewit and his friends, Quarlous and Winwife ; they are plotting how to win Dame Purecraft ( a widow, and Littlewit's mother-in-law ) from Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, a canting, hypocritical Puritan.

On stage, the Puritan is a hypocritical, judgmental, and long-winded figure, masking his lusts behind a vocal obsession with trivialities ; Busy, for example, announces his intention to eat pork at the fair merely to refute the charges of " Judaism " he claims are leveled at Puritans, and he ends up consuming two whole pigs.

These root expressions really mean the same thing: they are both a friendly way to point out hypocritical behavior.

" There are lots of French people who are not at all hypocritical, inefficient, treacherous, intolerant, adulterous or incredibly sexy … They just didn't make it into my book.

Critics argue that the selective invocation of portions of the Old Testament is hypocritical, particularly when those portions endorse hostility towards women and homosexuals, when other portions are considered obsolete.

Ballou's antislavery sentiments are exemplified in his 1843 Fourth of July address entitled " The Voice of Duty ," in which he called on Americans to honor the foundations of the country by not being selective or hypocritical in their judgment of who should be free: " We honor liberty only when we make her impartial -- the same for and to all men.

The only adult on the show that Stan consistently trusted was Chef, the cafeteria worker at his school, as Stan generally holds the rest of the show's adult population in low regard due to their tendency to both behave irrationally when subjected to the scams, cults, and sensationalized media stories of which he is often skeptical, and engage in hypocritical behavior.

St Kitts and Nevis Commissioner, Cedric Liburd, pointed out to various anti whaling counties during debate on the secret ballot vote on the first day of the 2006 meeting in St Kitts that it was extremely hypocritical of such countries to pontificate on the need for transparency within the IWC by open voting when such countries quite happily voted via secret ballot in CITES, a similar management body.

From there, Villaggio was hired for the TV programme Quelli della domenica ( Those guys of Sunday ), in which Fantozzi made his first appearance, introducing his characters the aggressive " Professor Kranz " and the hypocritical " Giandomenico Fracchia ".

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at first opposed the new name " Myanmar ", pointing out the hypocritical justification of inclusiveness put forward by the regime.