Sentences with phrase «saintly mother»

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

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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 Japanese are universally saintly, the local district attorney and mother of the murdered man are spawn of the devil.

Homer's dad (a very brief Tom Hanks apparition) has recently passed, and with his older brother Marcus (Jack Quaid, son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid) off at war, Homer takes it upon himself to secure a job to help support his saintly and melancholy mother (Meg Ryan), his older sister Bess (Christine Nelson) and his little brother Ulysses (an energetic Spencer Howell).

But of course, it can: The Eyes of My Mother already feels, unwittingly, like a timely expression of backwardness straight from the heartland, tinged with revenge, sex and saintly suffering.

His mother appeared too perfect and too saintly to be believable.

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?