I had a pretty good picture of one of the wrecks I encountered on the way to work this morning, all cropped and ready, but then I decided it was one of those things that, 'you had to be there'. Wrecks on the interstate are such a common occurrence that they are just worthy of little attention. It is always something, and there is just no getting around them. Literally. This morning, a three lane section of the interstate was reduced to one lane, and it is never at a convenience spot. SO, I decided to use this picture of the morning sunrise, full of promise and false hope that the day would be a lovely one. Alas, it was not meant to be. It was not an awful day by any means, just not a wonderful as the sunrise promised.Sanctimonious -- Adjective. hypocritically pious or devout. "But none of us should be so sanctimonious as to think that we aren't captive creatures of the prevailing views of our time, just as those before us were." William F.B. O'Reilly, Newsday, September 1, 2017
Did You Know? There's nothing sacred about sanctimonious - at least not any more. But in the early 1600's, the English adjective was still sometimes used to describe someone truly holy or pious (a sense that recalls the meaning of the word's Latin parent, sanctimonia). Shakespeare used both the "holy" and "holier-than-thou" senses in his work, referring in The Tempest to the "sanctimonious" (that is, "holy") ceremonies of marriage and in Measure for Measure, to "the sanctimonious pirate that went to sea with Ten Commandments but scraped one out of the table." (Apparently, the pirate found the restriction on stealing a bit too inconvenient.)
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