In reply today he referred to the sanctimonious nature of my question.
A sanctimonious code of that kind is no good at all unless it is put into operation by the gentlemen concerned in the advertising industry.
I shall not go as far as saying that that remark was a little sanctimonious.
What is particularly nauseating is the sanctimonious spirit in which this has been done.
What we find most difficult to accept is the sanctimonious self-congratulation and the hyping up of the extent of the increase in the money provided.
He could not rise above his normal litany of sanctimonious humbug, tedentious statistics and scurrilous scares.
There is nothing worse than a sanctimonious mob on such occasions.
Before he adopts too sanctimonious a tone, he should recognise that fact.