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The performances sing, too, with the series making use of Portman’s gift for self-righteous sanctimony and Ingram’s ability to sell both disillusionment and swashbuckling heroism as the situation demands it.
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Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
The effect is to achieve Woods’s desire to inject nuance into the show’s discussions and plots without sanctimony.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
By keeping concentration-camp obscenity off-screen, while referring to it obliquely through sci-fi sound effects and abstract visual metaphors, Glazer invites a new, smart-aleck sanctimony.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
This breeds a funny mix of pugilism and sanctimony that can be, frankly, a little unlikable.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
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Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
The effect is to achieve Woods’s desire to inject nuance into the show’s discussions and plots without sanctimony.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
By keeping concentration-camp obscenity off-screen, while referring to it obliquely through sci-fi sound effects and abstract visual metaphors, Glazer invites a new, smart-aleck sanctimony.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
This breeds a funny mix of pugilism and sanctimony that can be, frankly, a little unlikable.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
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“Sanctimony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanctimony. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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