saintly

How To Use saintly In A Sentence

• Cute dogs: Ford is fine at the start, as a shark, but once he becomes a saintly dumdum he loses his finesse and his subtlety. You Need This Movie Like . . . ..Mr.-
• None of this success has made me a more saintly or holy person. Christianity Today
• Lively, pretty, and pleasure-loving, Carie had married the saintly younger brother of the minister in her hometown of Hillsboro, West Virginia, because he was preparing to go as a missionary to China, and she wanted to give herself to God. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
• In contrast, Princess Sirindhorn, his sister, enjoys a saintly image as a patron of charity.
• This, which has been called the ostracism of a saintly genius, undoubtedly was due to his former friends, Ward and Manning. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• According to the book, the familiar image of a saintly, eccentric genius was carefully cultivated.
• In old Mauritania, now Marocco,384 the Moors proper are notable sodomites; Moslems, even of saintly houses, are permitted openly to keep catamites, nor do their disciples think worse of their sanctity for such licence: in one case the English wife failed to banish from the home “that horrid boy.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Her religion is an obscure chaos of theogonies as old as the world, treasured up out of respect for ancient customs; and of more recent ideas about the blessed final annihilation, imported from India by saintly Chinese missionaries at the epoch of our The French Immortals Series — Complete
• His film includes a wonderful scene where Sister Bridget cries when watching The Bells Of Saint Mary's, obviously sees herself in the saintly Ingrid Bergman role.
• Some, notably the antinomians, were theologically unorthodox; their obsession with personal “conversion” led them to question whether the “visible saints” governing the colony were truly saintly.