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Dafoe delivers his finest performance in recent memory, bringing to levelheaded, unsanctimonious life a character who offers a glimmer of hope and caring within a world markedly short on both.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2017

Colin Matthews is sensibly unsanctimonious about such matters, and insists he was more transcriber than composer when completing three sketches that Britten left out of his 1939 song cycle Les Illuminations.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2010

In his two-tone jacket and shiny red DMs, he is a bald-headed people's poet with an unsanctimonious message about the perils of body fascism.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2010

It is actually primitive, as well as childlike, to play with poetry in this intense and yet unsanctimonious way that Poe did, and Baudelaire too, and Swinburne.

From Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets by Eastman, Max