Sentences with phrase «as saintly»

Not all the Renaissance women were as saintly as Joan or as cultured as Christina.

Here McConaughey is as saintly a person as the actor was in «Dallas Buyers Club,» when he shed fifty pounds to become Ron Woodroof, intent on finding alternative treatments for AIDS.

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.

Guilt - ridden interviewees paint Foley as saintly, selfless and idealistic, if somewhat naive, alluding to the competitive and reckless aspects of war reporting.

She is regarded as saintly, and she is supremely manipulative.

Ford did more than any other filmmaker to enshrine Lincoln as a saintly rustic, most memorably in the classic Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), and Spielberg seems to follow his lead in the first dialogue scene of Lincoln.

He was incredibly brave as a masturbating crank caller in Todd Solondz's black comedy Happiness (1998), outstanding opposite Robert De Niro as a kindly drag queen in Joel Schumacher's Flawless (1999), and untypically sweet as a saintly male nurse in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999).

But presenting survivors as saintly in order to reassure ourselves that we are good is to use survivors to deceive ourselves.

Karenin is 20 years Anna's senior but he has an impeccable character, deep honor, is a good father and husband, and is regarded as saintly by his peers.

A mountain of self - love, revealing stunt biker Knievel as a saintly combination of Batman and Billy Graham.

Why don't you read up on her and not assume she's as saintly as the catholics claim?

Those denied the basic physical foundations of «the good life» are quite apt to be as good Christians and as saintly souls as those who are able to live in comfort.

In television circles, Netflix is heralded as a saintly creative partner.

Not exact matches

In a June 28 sermon, Hall complained that the windows put a «decidedly saintly spin on two leaders of the Confederate Army,» whose «inscriptions portray them as exemplary Christian gentlemen,» but «contain no reference to the sin of slavery which both men fought — and one died — to uphold.»

Twain was a bad man, yes, in some ways, but he was the same mixture of good and bad as the rest of us, and every other artist and writer who ever lived, including the saintly ones.

Posing as godly loved ones who have died, saintly clergymen who are now dead, Bible prophets, or even the apostles or disciples of Christ (2 Corinthians 11:13), Satan and his angels will deceive billions.

Fathers especially can take as their model the patron of statesmen, St Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England in the 16th century, who was once described in The Sunday Times newspaper as «the most saintly of humanists, and the most human of saints».13

as any glance at the words used by saintly people about themselves would show.

Inasmuch as the will - power of contemporary man is not in itself more vigorous or unswerving than that of a Plato or an Augustine, and individual moral perfection is still to be measured by steadfastness in pursuance of the known good (and therefore relative) we can not claim as individuals to be more moral or saintly than our fathers.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

It is also important to see that subtle distortions in the saintly life may be as destructive as vicious rejections of God's call by grossly unspiritual people.

When another saintly Benedict did finally emerge, this time upon the Chair of Peter, his cultural analysis echoed that of MacIntyre: «I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority,» suggested Pope Benedict XVI during an in - flight papal press conference in 2009.

Usually it is interpreted as a kiss of forgiveness from Christ to the saintly sinner.

The saintly Dom Guéranger with his L'Année Liturgique, and subsequent writers such as Pius Parsch, provided a healthy counterpoint to this tendency by instructing the laity on the texts of the liturgy themselves.

This is not adequate grounds for distinguishing between Jesus and Socrates and Gautama, let alone any number of other wise or saintly or good people, unless one resorts to a dogmatic insistence upon Jesus» «sinlessness» or «absolute perfection» about which we have no final way of knowing, and which Jesus is reported as denying with respect to himself (Mark 10:18).

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

As was said of another saintly teacher, he never wrote a life of Christ — but lived it.

The man once known as «the Italian Oskar Schindler,» we were told, «far from being a hero» or saintly rescuer of Jews was «an enthusiastic Nazi collaborator.»

That prayer - as Augustine's saintly mother Monica so powerfully attested - manifests itself more often than not in tears.

Our next topic shall be Poverty, felt at all times and under all creeds as one adornment of a saintly life.

Kass's distinctive concerns must have continued to owe something to the personal decency of his «saintly» and «moralist» parents, as much to his exposure to the questioning characteristic of Great Books Theirs, because of their quasi-religious community, was not the kind of quasi-socialism that abstracted from the greatness and misery of ordinary persons.

This may be a shortsighted error on our part, but, with the exception of a few saintly souls, human beings generally have not thought of themselves as having any obligations to nonhuman nature.

These saintly methods are, as I said, creative energies; and genuine saints find in the elevated excitement with which their faith endows them an authority and impressiveness which makes them irresistible in situations where men of shallower nature can not get on at all without the use of worldly prudence.

St Francis de Sales (one of the first to see the dangers of heresy at Port Royal) and other saintly spiritual writers who advocated frequent communion saw it as a practice requiring regular confession and serious preparation.

The saintly and the worldly ideal pursue their feud in literature as much as in real life.

Our question, you will remember, is as to whether religion stands approved by its fruits, as these are exhibited in the saintly type of character.

Theologies representing the gods as mindful of their glory, and churches with imperialistic policies, have conspired to fan this temper to a glow, so that intolerance and persecution have come to be vices associated by some of us inseparably with the saintly mind.

They notice that it is permeated by a spirit of deep reverence or piety, that it aims to transform the quality and character of experience in a direction that appears saintly, that it manifests itself in such institutions as temples and monasteries in which there are ritual observances, and so forth.

I'm always surprised at how some recipes claim to be healthy but then include something sneaky or not as sugar saintly as you would hope for.

Curious as to how other saintly teams did that day, O'Reilly and McGowan did some checking around and came up with this remarkable list:

Ed Miliband makes pious noises denouncing «factionalism» as if he is a saintly figure who never had anything to do with it.

As party secretary, Macdonald had a key role in developing the party machine and fixing things about which the saintly Keir Hardie didn't have to ask too many questions.

Thus, although Alice's meal contains only about 8 percent of total weight as butter, it contains 58 percent of calories as fat — not a saintly diet at all, but one for the Sybarite!

As played by Dennis Quaid, «the killer» is a very mixed - up individual: a saintly sinner, a world-wise naïf, a skilled performer with zero sense of discipline, a loving husband who uses his wife for a punching bag.

What happens when you're an exhausted, stressed - out mother of three, who feels like you've reached the end of your rope as far as coping mechanisms go, and a saintly young woman floats into your life to help you save yourself?

The creatures may be defending their ancient forests, but the hallow (as they're collectively called) is anything but saintly.

The film stars Vince Vaughn in the title role as Santa's ne'er - do - well elder brother, opposite Paul Giamatti, who looks a little out of his element as Fred's saintly sibling.

Though their 2014 film, about a woman (Marion Cotillard) trying to save herself from imminent redundancy, is cut from the same careworn cloth as previous features, it's another undeniably sublime and heartbreaking work about saintly self preservation, the struggles of working class life and the fact that it's often the smallest stories which deal with the biggest and most important ideas.

Entertaining, and never very daring, Melfi saves the sappiest moment for last with Oliver's little ode to Vincent in his school project, which contends that the man as has all the necessary saintly qualities.

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.