Sentences with phrase «almost saintly»

Meanwhile, Clare, the youngest child of their aging parents, seeks to maintain an almost saintly innocence.

He had dark, shoulder - length wavy hair and a calm, almost saintly, expression.

Shot in an unfussy, unobtrusive cinema vérite style, it's both a deep look at an extraordinary, almost saintly person, and the milieu that she operates in, building up a heartbreaking portrait of the women she tries to help, from her own drug - addicted sister - in - law to Temeka, who's been working the streets for three years despite being only 15.

The war between good and evil is black - and - white, Strickland as almost pure evil and Elisa, Giles and Zelda are almost saintly — despite or perhaps because of their near poverty.

There are a few good people in the drama, some almost saintly in their dedication to get an innocent man freed, and a lot of bad folks such as a fellow who actually committed a murder but implicated a neighbor as co-defendant.

Complete with the director's trademark visceral intensity, it draws the viewer in to the depraved masculine underworld of the London Russian mob, which makes the Sopranos look almost saintly by comparison.

Jason Bateman plays the everyman (ya know - the Ed Helms - role), who's lorded over by psychotic Kevin Spacey, who manages to make the other horrible boss he played, Buddy from SWIMMING WITH SHARKS, look almost saintly by comparison.

In a story overseen by an editor named Whittaker Chambers, the magazine noted with its typical prose from the period: «[T] here will be dimly discernible, to those who are interested in cause & effect in history, the features of a shy, almost saintly, childlike little man with the soft brown eyes, the drooping facial lines of a world - weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis... Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb.

Getting to Yes advises a stoicism in the face of adversarial attacks that is almost saintly.

Not exact matches

Almost without fail, he turns his back on representational scenes, opting rather for abstract, geometric patterns out of his feeling that traditional biblical scenes or saintly figures create a distraction to true worship.

«He was perhaps the most saintly philosopher I have ever known,» he said, «gentle, kind, honest, almost childlike.

As the nice boss, Albert Brooks is almost as saintly as Smith, though at least with Brooks we can watch in hope that another shoe might drop.