Sentences with phrase «saintly character»

Those who criticized Portman in GARDEN STATE will likely have a field day with Hudson's similarly saintly character, although Hudson's able to give her a bit of an edge, and has easily the movie's best scene where she comforts and confronts Patinkin's miserly dad, who earlier puts her down for only being half - Jewish, and encouraging her husband's idiotic dreams.

The saintly character is the character for which spiritual emotions are the habitual centre of the personal energy; and there is a certain composite photograph of universal saintliness, the same in all religions, of which the features can easily be traced.

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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.

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.

It casts McCandless in a saintly light - likely a pretty big stretch - but necessarily makes him a sympathetic character and strongly underscores the powerful message we're meant to take from the movie.

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.

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).

Centered around Dench's performance and the saintly, but not cheesy or overly sentimental, character of Philomena, the film could have easily fallen into the worst kind of TV - movie - of - the - week melodrama.

Just as important, they add character and personality to a film built on a saintly young hero and an impassive dictatorial antagonist.

In the case of the whistleblower Assange, his abundant character flaws could very well prove to be his own and his organization's undoing (regular folks like their political revolutionaries Nelson Mandela — saintly or not at all).