Sentences with phrase «with saintly»

If you have been super-organized you coordinated your rescue with a standing weekly appointment your organization has with this saintly veterinarian.

Investing with saintly people is not guaranteed to deliver excellent investment results.

After experiencing the unpleasant realities of a Nigerian police cell, he is rescued by Amaka, a Pam Grier-esque Blaxploitation heroine with a saintly streak.

I'm a rapper that speaks in strange languages greatly opaque, eradicating hate with saintly halos of waves while balancing the Yin Yang.

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.

It is a move that Frank, with his saintly tolerance, understands.

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

With most of us the customary hardness quickly returns, but not so with saintly persons.

A new life - size mural depicts Pope Francis with a saintly halo kissing U.S. President Donald Trump with devil's horns on his head.

Not exact matches

And yet, though I am not acquainted with him, I know at least this much: No matter how saintly he is, no matter how profound his Christian witness, no matter how gifted his teaching, Timothy George will not be sharing in the Lord's Supper with Richard John Neuhaus.

And this presupposes that legend has to do with a «saintly» life and a blessed death, by which the believer can be edified and inspired to emulation.

Along with a large body of morally neutral acts, we are capable of behavior ranging from the inexpressibly wicked to the ineffably saintly.

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.

We should honor great men, saintly men are noble examples for us, but no great or saintly man can reveal God's mystery to us and bind us with God; no man can take away our guilt and make us certain of the completion of life in eternal life.

Occasions of contact with such elements are avoided: the saintly life must deepen its spiritual consistency and keep unspotted from the world.

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» kinship with all creatures undoubtedly made him look pretty silly sometimes, but he appears, well, saintly, compared to the hubris - ridden scientists cooking up the genome project for genetic mapping and alteration of the human species.

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:

Assisting in theatre is vastly less enjoyable than catching babies, but I did it with a good grace (so saintly).

Two: Someone who considers that a woman who decides to «sacrifice» a career for the good of little ones who need her help to grow into self contained human beings is a terrific person, a stand up for what she believes in, a helper with the creation of the future world, sooooo stressed looking after baby and helping Junior with potty training, and a total martyr to the cause of saintly motherhood.

They have robed him in fine lines and saintly cassock, and garlanded him with the diadem of unrivaled electoral solvency.

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

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.

The saintly image derives from his ethereal achievements, certainly (his description of time and space literally displaced the old scientific concept of ether), but also from his modesty, his obsession with social justice, and his penchant for treating everyone the same, whether janitor or king.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's also room for a secondary romance between J.R. and his loyal, widowed Latina employee of thirty years, Gloria Martinez (Patricia Mayen - Salazar), another pairing made possible by that saintly Mrs. Miracle, with her runaway ornaments and enchanted tupperware.

Making any film about survivors of genocide is to walk into a minefield of clichés, most of which serve to create a heroic (if not saintly) protagonist with whom we can identify, thereby offering the false reassurance that, in the moral catastrophe of atrocity, we are nothing like perpetrators.

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.

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.

To do so, the religious shyster (with all the saintly sincerity of an unscrupulous used car salesman) decides to accept one last invitation to reclaim an innocent soul.

But the movie makes better use of new additions Morgan Freeman (parodying his saintly airs as a storied civil rights lawyer) and Liam Neeson (as a grocery shopper with some most unusual concerns about Trix cereal).

With his hangdog face and reluctant smile, Crowe plays the part of the humble underdog to the hilt and his sensitive, generous performance makes the saintly Braddock a compelling figure.

He belongs on the same list with Helen Keller, and yet it is hard to imagine Christy being good company for the saintly Miss Keller, since he was not a saint himself but a ribald, boozing, wickedly gifted Irishman who simply happened to be handicapped.

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.

Her saintly figure and graceful film presence have been making fans drool for years, but the over-40 actress has continued to look great with the best era of her career just sparking over the past few years.

There is a strong attachment to the Korean past and tradition, with the father a saintly figure strongly worshipped by the daughter.

Brie Larson is poised to finally break through with her powerful and nuanced performances, a warts - and - all turn that is triumphant in the way it is not purely heroic or saintly.

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

And their children, the Marys: Mary Grace, the devastating beauty; Mary Tessa, the insistent inquisitor; Mary Catherine, the saintly, lost soul; and finally, Amaryllis, Seena's unspoken favorite, born with the mystifying ability to sense the future, touch the past, and distinguish the truth tellers from the most convincing liar of all.

As usual with terriers, owners must have saintly patience to work these dogs in obedience trials, but the Jack Russell club offers agility, go - to - ground, search n» sniff, and racing for the breed.

While the delay into 2017 was disappointing for the many Star Citizen fans who have shown saintly levels of patience over the years following the game's announcement, it was also somewhat unsurprising considering how rough Squadron 42 looked in the livestream with only three months left in 2016.

Headlined «How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality,» the dense, scabrous cartoon phantasmagoria features floating heads of the various players, from a leering Joannou and a grinning Koons, to dealer Gavin Brown (pictured saying «OK, I admit that the New Museum does look a little bit like my bitch, but it is all based on merit»), as well as bloggers like James Wagner and Green, and a saintly caricature of New Museum founder Marcia Tucker.