How To Use Self-appointed In A Sentence

  • As grown-ups we are able to exercise choice. These self-appointed moral guardians seem to think they have the right to ban that choice.
  • The western leaders confidently pose as self-appointed custodians of democracy, an expedient ploy to win over public opinion.
  • Charles's self-appointed role on these occasions was to look for any guardsman who swayed in the heat and then report them to their officers.
  • But, typically, more than a few self-appointed culture mavens and media snobs were snickering under their breath.
  • Indeed, a self-appointed kahuna, described a kahuna as a spiritual teacher who acts as a bridge between the spiritual and the material world and is also an expert in his field.
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  • These publicity-seeking, self-appointed guardians of our morals have no right to dictate to us what we shall or shall not do.
  • Whenever these self-appointed guardians of alcoholic and architectural merit get involved, an elitist macho tone taints proceedings.
  • The last thing on anyone's mind should be having to deal with a mindless, self-appointed, unaccountable mob holding the country to ransom.
  • Their self-appointed role in life seems to be to treat their spouses as though they were small, mildly irritating but endearing children.
  • There have always been self-appointed experts on the subject, of course.
  • It is vital that we look to science to help us here, and not to the various scaremongers and often self-appointed bodies that tend to spread stories of doom and gloom.
  • I feel pity for a people who let some self-appointed cult leaders do their thinking for them.
  • While the groups are forming, some students take charge as self-appointed leaders.
  • After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. Berry on Early Modern Information
  • Hacks outside chez Giggs found their cars smashed up, presumably by self-appointed guardians of the injunctor. Hugh Muir's Diary
  • Now the self-appointed leader of the group is trying to hustle up a mere $5.
  • View It » just who are these self appointed "top conservatives"? probably a balance to the "self-appointed _top progressives Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • The representatives of the relatives or patients appear to be largely self-appointed and it is unclear how accurately they reflect the views of others.
  • Through its overemphasis on democratic accountability in the name of transparency, the present social system stands in the way of the emergence of such a self-appointed elite.
  • All I know about salaciousness is that various women's committees and other self-appointed censors are against it. Sex and Violence on the Bookstalls
  • The official candidate was greatly overshadowed by the other four self-appointed independent candidates.
  • It's easy to dismiss the jingoists, the English-only paranoiacs, the self-appointed culture police.
  • You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages.
  • U. S. State Department spokesman Mark Daytona regular press conference on the same day declared that the United States of Venezuela to promote the practice of self-appointed ambassador to the U.
  • The fashion-challenged among us will be relieved to hear that even the self-appointed commissars of style haven't got a clue.
  • I think it was right here in this very paper that some self-appointed style authority decreed that any piece of clothing sporting graffiti-based design was considered passé in the year 2002.
  • For those who aren\'t familiar with the term, \ "woo woo\" is a derogatory reference to almost any form of unconventional thinking, aimed by professional skeptics who are self-appointed vigilantes dedicated to the suppression of curiosity. Deepak Chopra: Woo Woo Is a Step Ahead of (Bad) Science
  • The committee met in an unofficial capacity eight years ago as self-appointed community leaders.
  • You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages.
  • He would turn up in search of an audience when all we wanted was to have a good time, not to sit in awe at some self-appointed star turn, an overgrown schoolboy still sitting in puddles for attention.
  • But his self-appointed mission to restore to jazz a cultural-political clout it had in the first bop era and in the free-jazz of the 1960s makes him something considerably bigger.
  • To those who've forgotten that the man who coined the term agnostic was also Darwin's self-appointed "bulldog," fiercely defending his work and discovery against the jibes of a derisive, behind-the-times Church of England, it's worth remembering that Huxley in turn criticized Spencer for not only making agnosticism require a static, permanent doubt, but also for failing to underline some of the worst social consequences of religion. Christopher Lane: Debates About Agnosticism Are As Old As The Concept Itself
  • Here on the diverse streets of Toronto are the activist wolf-chieftans, the irresponsible spenders, and the self-appointed Santa Clauses of feel good, resultless, and a-logical rulership. Archive 2007-01-01
  • His forced good cheer depressed Neil, as did his self-appointed role as second-in-command to Dr Barbara. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • The Persian Gulf War 1991 is bound to become Gulf War I since Time magazine, the self-appointed arbiter of universal journalese, has begun to label the present Iraq war as Gulf War II.
  • Don't these peasants realise that their self-appointed moral arbiters have already decided what they should think?
  • Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
  • The object is not for the children to become self-sufficient, but to be reliant on the ultimate ‘authority’ and sanction of ‘God’, in lieu of which they are obliged to submit to these self-appointed representatives of ‘God’. Think Progress » Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions.
  • Who was the fraud, the vicious self-appointed censor, or the artist who toiled daily to transmit to future ages his graceful and winning reveries?
  • We found that the self-appointed experts were often wrong about why people watch reality TV.
  • It would be good to know if this is how he came across during his famous attempts to moderate American behaviour, in his self-appointed role as your best foreign friend.
  • The film is dubbed a ‘social satire’ on America's self-appointed role as the world's police force.
  • The self-appointed buttinsky who never made a prediction that came true. New McCain Ad Hits Obama For Not Picking Hillary As Veep
  • As self-appointed guardians of public sensibility, these organisations get to draw the line on what is acceptable.
  • Meeting convener and self-appointed representative of Greenough's rural residents, Richard Carr, was unavailable for comment this morning, but was vocal in his opposition at the meeting.
  • There was a time when self-appointed wise men predicted the outcome of events, for good or ill, based on the position of the stars in the night sky.
  • The problem is that self-appointed statesmen cannot create a nation.
  • According to these self-appointed connoisseurs, he was a bawler without taste, without method, a maker of absurd trills, an unimpassioned actor of little intelligence, and many other things besides. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • Please save this country from any more self-appointed guardians of our pleasures; enough is enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • characterless" are some of the adjectives heaped by self-appointed critics on his designs. Statesman.com - Highschool
  • Beneath his scowl, a scared look crept into his eyes, and he glanced aside warily at his self-appointed detainer. THE CURSE OF CHALION
  • Now no man may call a palaver of all small chiefs unless he notifies the government of his intention, for the government is jealous of self-appointed parliaments, for when men meet together in public conference, however innocent may be its first cause, talk invariably drifts to war, just as when they assemble and talk in private it drifts womanward. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
  • He was a counselor, court-appointed or self-appointed, I don't know which, for Jason Bierman. HOPE TO DIE
  • She's also become a self-appointed expert on backsides. The Sun
  • Then there was the self-appointed critic who admires nothing, and will blow his nose in the middle of a cavatina at the The Magic Skin
  • We've all been tormented by self-appointed experts who regularly criticize the weekly choice of music. Christianity Today
  • Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
  • If dissent is voiced, self-appointed mind-guards apply verbal and non-verbal pressure to isolate dissenters.
  • And the news business, which once took pride in what it put down for posterity, is all atwitter with tweets and insta-posts by self-appointed experts on a bazillion blogs. Cash for clunker columns
  • I suppose every society needs its self-appointed professional disapprovers, but they really wouldn't be much fun to sit next to at a dinner party.
  • If dissent is voiced, self-appointed mind-guards apply verbal and non-verbal pressure to isolate dissenters.
  • Is the world's self-appointed Tantric sexpert answering anyone's calls?
  • Many self-appointed experts believed that sending in the bombers at low-level was basically unsound and too dangerous.
  • Always ‘in character’ as the self-appointed roué, Jerome's encounters with women are strangely enervated events.
  • On more than one occasion, a self-appointed individual would take it upon himself to give me a severe trouncing.
  • A prophet who adamantly declines the label messiah, and a kind of self-appointed Pied Piper in reverse determined to lead the downtrodden out of their misery, Moore makes his case in no uncertain terms as he winds crime scene tape all around Wall Street and insists on making citizen arrests via megaphone outside brokerage houses. NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
  • Distinctions such as these were bread and butter to Baroness Staffe, the self-appointed 19th-century arbiter of what was and wasn't comme il faut the done thing. A Nation Holding Out for a Hero
  • Real blogging is telling it how you see it and not conforming to what either the media or the self-appointed leaders of the blogs tell you is acceptable.
  • Instead the over-taxed, ripped-off and victimised motorist is forced by self-appointed traffic commissars into an ever-diminishing number of already clogged traffic arteries.
  • What gives these self-appointed activists the right to try to shut down the meetings of democratically elected leaders?
  • The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
  • a self-appointed guardian of public morals
  • Today there are two pretenders to the title of headmaster, each self-appointed.
  • The American "captive" is beset in his struggle by "interpretations, admonitions, forewarnings and descriptions of himself by the self-appointed prophets, priests, judges and prefabricators of his travail," says Martin. Saul Bellow - Nobel Lecture
  • The priest as Prophet should not be an excuse to become a self-appointed haranguer for or against a personal agenda. Wounded Healer, Bearer of Mystery, Prophet
  • I dealt with a lot of self-appointed experts on a range of subjects.
  • Self-appointed guardians of orthodoxy in any number of faiths could use the legislation to harass dissidents within their own communities.
  • As a child, he had shrunk from visiting the serpent house at the Zoo; and, later, when he had come to man's estate and had put off childish things, and settled down in real earnest to his self-appointed mission of drinking up all the alcoholic fluid in England, the distaste for Ophidia had lingered. Indiscretions of Archie
  • Please save this country from any more self-appointed guardians of our pleasures; enough is enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most self-appointed experts thought not; mountain ranges might prove to be an obstacle. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution

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