Sentences with phrase «more saintly»

Lawrence gives the same committed, heart - rending performance, and she's even more saintly than before: The script never lets her fire an arrow except in self - defense, and she stubbornly defies Snow in public, though she knows the probable consequence is death.

Not exact matches

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

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.

To the right of that post, a bit under the gallery, sits Bishop Anderson of Chicago, and two seats away is the saintly face of the Rev. Alexander Whyte of First St. George's Church, Edinburgh, whom more American preachers love than any other living pulpiteer.

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

A new life - size mural depicts Pope Francis with a saintly halo kissing U.S. President Donald Trump with... More

Can the church help citizens of the emerging postindustrial society be more «saintly» in their «scientific» endeavors?

I wasn't referring to suicide, but more in general: how, for instance, disease or wars are blamed on the devil and saintly deeds by people always have to come from God.

Senior Kundalini Yoga teacher Guru Jagat shares a meditation using mahan gyan mudra to help you gain more confidence and maybe even feel «saintly.»

It Needs: A more rounded, less saintly heroine; less grotesque caricaturing of its middle class characters (a regular feature in Leighs films); and a little less tea - drinking (it is hard on the bladder by the second hour).

While the role doesn't require Palance to do much more than speak unnervingly softly and look imposing, he does those two things superlatively, and makes a suitably devilish adversary for the film's near - saintly hero.

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.

Or if Beau had a chance to be more than a studly - saintly helpmate with a good pair of lungs.

Hobart Shakespearean that he is, Esquith skillfully plays the role of the modest, righteous, self - fulfilled, patient, and wise educator who — though surely he could work in other more - prestigious and remunerative professions — nobly remains in the classroom, quietly going about his saintly business.

Maria also blogs about her experiences as a writer and world traveler at http://www.mariastaal.com/ and about her quest to learn more about a saintly ancestor at a new site set to launch very soon.

Were this case not about an utterly «unimpeachable father» but a dad less saintly, more prone to human failings, one wonders whether the implacably hostile mother's obduracy would countenance judicial opprobrium at all?