Pharisaism

Pharisaism made the Bible accessible to new and revolutionary interpretations.

Judgment is based only on the balance between good deeds and sins during the whole of life, indicating that the book was influenced by Pharisaism.

All else is swamped by Pharisaism.

I lacked the cynic's nose, the odora canum vis or bloodhound sensitivity for hypocrisy or Pharisaism.

To the extent that Shakespeare invidiously contrasts Shylock's strict Pharisaism with Portia's Christian mercy, the play's truth is diminished.

The doctrine of absurdity refers to any strict interpretation of something to the point of violating common sense, e.g., following religious dictates, such as in pharisaism (emphasizing or observing the something's exact rules or words, but not its spirit).

It says something about the persistence of Pharisaism ("rigid observance of external forms of religion without genuine piety") that some of the loudest voices denouncing distribution, like Patrick Buchanan, also trumpet their devotion to free speech and free markets.

She was again much in the company of Miss Carmichael, and Donal had good cause to fear that the pharisaism of her would-be directress was coming down upon her spirit, not like rain on the mown grass, but like frost on the spring flowers.

This Pharisaism on the part of European leaders, who pretend to control the GMO phenomenon - for health reasons as uncertain as the would-be positive contributions of these genetically manipulated products to world agriculture - is made all the more ironic by its timing.

In this Chamber, we have heard an unexpected pharisaism, namely that we should be careful lest, by any chance, since Greece is a Member of the European Union, it might be considered that a stern attitude towards Turkey is motivated by philhellenic partiality.