How To Use Saintly In A Sentence
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None of this success has made me a more saintly or holy person.
Christianity Today
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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
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In contrast, Princess Sirindhorn, his sister, enjoys a saintly image as a patron of charity.
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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
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According to the book, the familiar image of a saintly, eccentric genius was carefully cultivated.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Somehow, though, the body and its components have recently gained the holy quality previously reserved for saintly relics.
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a saintly concern for his fellow men
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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While I do think the saints have spiritual maturity, often very saintly people and profoundly religious people struggle with other personality conflicts.
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What would your saintly, crop-eared friends say if they knew as much of your past history as I do?
The Tavern Knight
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He was an saintly apostle of peace, love and unity and a great poet.
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Not unconnected with these two mercenary characters are the Cohens, the family with whom the saintly Mordecai lodges.
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He was by all accounts a saintly man, and his own benignity surely informed his understanding of film and what he saw as its realist mission.
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Several narratives intertwine as Lovric charts Marcella's tortuous, Minguillo-instigated progress through crippledom, a lunatic asylum and eventually a convent, including that of the fanatical nun Sor Loreta, who mortifies her body and starves herself to attain holiness while being as vile as possible to the less saintly nuns around her.
Home
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The new film deals with the infamous Borgia family which produced no less than two saintly Popes in Italy during the 14th and 15th century.
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Throughout his papacy. Pope Pius XII was almost universally, regarded as a saintly man, a scholar, a man of peace, a tower of strength, and a compassionate defender and protector of all victims of the war and genocide that had drenched Europe in blood.
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Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
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We are mad unless we are saintly, saintly only as we soar above madness.
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Here, too, lie the cemeteries: the Jewish, fronting the main road, with a decent enclosure; that of the Christians, framed in a wire fence and containing a few wooden crosses, imitation broken columns and tinsel wreaths; Arab tombs, scattered over a large undefined tract of brown earth, and clustering thickly about some white-domed maraboutic monument, whose saintly relics are desirable companionship for the humbler dead.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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The man's upturned eyes and tilted head play off traditional saintly poses in Spanish religious sculpture.
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In this memoir she comes across as intelligent, generous, almost saintly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dance routines were tame, there was next to no humour and they seemed almost saintly when they spoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cardinal Bessarion called St. Thomas "the most saintly of learned men and the most learned of saints".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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It is well after midday and time to catch up with the “saintly” Kofi Annan father of Kojo, described in an Australian newspaper as one of the “international bratpack”.
Normal service resumes
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We were coming back over the five-virgate field, and the holy subprior was telling us a saintly tale from the life of Saint Gregory, when there came a sudden sound like a rushing torrent, and the foul fiend sprang over the high wall which skirts the water-meadow and rushed upon us with the speed of the wind.
Sir Nigel
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The problem of demarcation also plagues the paradigm case of supererogatory behavior, the so-called saintly and heroic acts.
How to Kill a Missionary
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The result tastes more sinful than saintly to me, with its sultry, come-hither personality.
New and Old Worlds Meet in Decadent Viogniers
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The saintly abbess spent several fruitful years in that convent, the recipient of extraordinary mystical favors.
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The resignation might almost be called saintly, were it not that it seems to spring rather from the natural melancholy and sadness of Shakespeare's disposition; “the world is a hard, all-hating world,” he seems to say, “and misery is the natural lot of man; defeat comes to all; why should I hope for any better fortune?”
The Man Shakespeare
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Spectres, likewise, are these saintly caricatures of humanity, perambulating metaphysics, the application _in corpore vili_ of Oriental fakirism.
Old Calabria
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Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
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Clad in a tight-fitting suit that seems one size too short, and clutching his briefcase as if it contained the Holy Grail, he exudes an almost saintly goodness.
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She is wearing a plain black, ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look.
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Undertaking religious pilgrimage is a seen as a meritorious practice since it focuses the mind on places associated with the Buddha, saintly people, or holy objects.
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De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, as they say, but a few who worked with him have spoken of his less-than-saintly actions.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: St. Steve Jobs? Probably Not, But….
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Reminiscent of a young Roger Moore, he plays with a sincerity and conviction in keeping with a saintly character who doesn't appear to have a wicked thought or a bad bone in his body.
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He was positioned by his commercial handlers as saintly, unifying, pacifistic and unthreatening.
Times, Sunday Times
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The resignation might almost be called saintly, were it not that it seems to spring rather from the natural melancholy and sadness of Shakespeare's disposition; "the world is a hard, all-hating world," he seems to say, "and misery is the natural lot of man; defeat comes to all; why should I hope for any better fortune?
The Man Shakespeare
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Is that what you call saintly, spending all your time with Lady
The Path Of Duty
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As our power of resistance has got exhausted, we have shun our frustration, and learnt the enviable and saintly art of satisfaction, stoicism and endurance.
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I’d use the word gook more times than I should when talking to the boys in my company, but in my own mind I called them pals for some reason having nothing whatever to do with saintly tendencies on my part or theirs.
Noble Norfleet
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Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
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The unsaintly one should have been selected for the tournament despite his onegame unavailability.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Somalia and Afghanistan clerics matter-of-factly described to your correspondent the range of jinn they had encountered, from the saintly to the demonic; those that can fly, those that crawl, plodding jinn, invisible jinn, gul with vampiric tendencies (from which the English word ghoul is taken), and shape-shifters recognisable in human form because their feet are turned backwards.
Archive 2006-12-01
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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.-
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With the exception of a saintly matron, called Mama Sunshine, who collects waifs and strays, grown-ups are not to be trusted.
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Numerous postulatory letters to this effect were addressed to his late Holiness of saintly and venerated memory, Pope Pius IX, who after the usual delay, permitted the preliminary steps towards the Beatification.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
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We row about it to this day, with my saintly mother seeing both sides of the argument.
Times, Sunday Times
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She depicts an almost saintly figure, virtually devoid of human weakness or error.
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Even if this were true, sanctity, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is "the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly," meaning that the word sanctity in itself refers to religion.
Camille Veselka: A Detrimental Influence: The Effect Religion Has on Laws
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Who, in short, would volunteer to be Philip French, film critic of this parish since 1978 and all-round exemplar of the saintly soul?
I Found it at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French – review
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He was beginning to think some fairly unsaintly thoughts about Judith.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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To paint this man as a saintly, pious ‘spiritual leader’ is obscene.
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Cardinal Bessarion called St. Thomas "the most saintly of learned men and the most learned of saints".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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After breakfast, having satisfied himself before the mirror that his dress was faultless, and his expression saintly, he went out and travelled by rail from Sloane Square to West Kensington, whence he walked to Laurel Grove.
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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Unfortunately, this popular tale has as much basis as the legends attributing crucifixes and saintly reliefs in various Apuan village churches, and even one Gothic rose window, to the great master.
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Worship of saintly relics became a pressing theological concern in the high Middle Ages.
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Her reticence appeared almost saintly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He confirmed the doctrine of saintly intercession and also saw relics as confirming the promise of future resurrection.
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Even the most saintly of people would drift towards complacency and arrogance after such a long period.
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The most saintly quality next to willing self - sacrifice is the spirit of tolerance.
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At that time his saintly public image was still intact.
The Sun
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One who had a saintly image in life has sadly been exposed in the past couple of weeks as having had a shady secret.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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Through the smoke and smutch which stained the canvas was seen a gray-haired, saintly woman's head.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
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Numerous postulatory letters to this effect were addressed to his late Holiness of saintly and venerated memory, Pope Pius
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
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In fact, those compelled to eat perfectly organic, nutritious, pure foods often feel a step above the rest of us - saintly and self-righteous.
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Similarly, on other occasions, pictures or images of gurus and saintly people have been seen miraculously to produce holy water or ash.
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He would above all be remembered as a most saintly Pontiff whose example to young and old alike will long flourish, and be enshrined deep in the hearts of all who loved and respected him.
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O God, who didst fill the soul of Saint Pius X with a burning charity and called him to be the Vicar of Christ, grant that through his intercession we may follow in the footsteps of Jesus, Our Divine Master; and may our prayers to this saintly Pope be fruitful for life both here and hereafter, through the same Christ Our Lord.
Feast of St. Pius X
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The truth is not so saintly simple as the christianised Oscar would have us believe.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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Yes, for all his sullen looks, there was something saintly about him.
Somewhere East of Life
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In contrast, Princess Sirindhorn, his sister, enjoys a saintly image as a patron of charity.
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Even where a human life seems to be clearly saintly or sinful, our judgments are not final.
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A special sanctity often attached to religious hermits and saintly ascetics, who were revered for their piety and sought out for the healing abilities of the blessed power attributed to them.
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The legend of his inspiration, however, may be placed beside the story of how the saintly Abbess turned the snakes into the fossil ammonites with which the liassic shores of Whitby are strewn.
Yorkshire
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At that time his saintly public image was still intact.
The Sun
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The problem, say some critics in China, is that director Hu Mei's "undignified" version of Confucius is turning the originator of Confucianism into a kung fu-fighting romancer, which is in contrast to their image of him as a saintly philosopher who espoused fundamental, traditional values of harmony and piety towards elders that many modern Chinese still cling to.
Kung Fu Cinema
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The clergy here are, it may be said, admirable, composed of good and saintly priests; but they vegetate, torpid with inaction; they neither read nor work; their joints become ankylose; they die of weariness in this provincial spot.
The Cathedral
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Rabbi, I sinned, because the melamed is a wise and saintly man; but this sin will disappear from your mind, Rabbi, if you will but think that I could not bear to look at the bruises on the body of the son of my son.
An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
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Know, then, that I was in the saintly City of Jerusalem with certain ecstatics and inspired men, and did not magnify myself among them, for that Allah
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He was a saintly man.
Times, Sunday Times
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I will see, my heart, when my purse is a little less empty, what I can do for those good and saintly Fathers of the sacred Valley [La Trappe].
The Ruin of a Princess
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In doing so, the first Pope from a united Germany has identified himself with the austere and saintly monk who saved the culture of Western Europe during the Dark Ages.
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When I was a baby and toddler, I learned to walk by hanging onto the head and ears of a very patient - one might say "saintly" - basset hound named Rebel.
Best Products & Practices
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With their father at the Civil War battlefront, and their saintly mother, Marmee, as they called her, working to support her family, the holiday would be void of many of its traditional pleasures.
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Only a few months ago she was dismissing saintly coffee-table popstrel Dido as ‘rubbish ‘and deploring the ignorance of record companies.’
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It seems definite, on the other hand, that the Missa Sine nomine was composed for King Ferdinand, a supposition encouraged by the distich found at the head of this mass in the Verona manuscript: “Ferdinande sacer inter divos referende cantica tinctoris suscipe parva tui” “O Ferdinand, saintly enough to be counted amongst the gods, accept these little compositions by Tinctoris”.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The appearance of riches in his house only occurred when Reb Jankiel received eminent guests, as the saintly Rabbi, with whom he was a great favourite, the colleagues of the kahal, or wealthy merchants.
An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
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On July 29, 1894, God called my saintly and much-tried Father to
Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
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Conversely, the recovery of people from what we would call comas or deep sleep could be interpreted as an example of miraculous resurrection, perhaps accounting in part for the enduring popularity of saintly healing.
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The practice of mutual reverence for each other's spiritual and saintly figures will promote genuine mutual respect.
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His very body had waxed old in lowly service of the Lord — in tending the fire upon the altar, in bearing tidings secretly, in waiting upon worldlings, in striking swiftly when bidden — and yet had remained ungraced by aught of saintly or of prelatic beauty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Whether it is sultry, as in lilac, or cool, as in lady's smocks, this mingling of fierce red and saintly blue has an elfin quality.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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On July 29, 1894, God called my saintly and much-tried Father to Himself.
The Story of a Soul
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Only the saintly devotee - the true disciple of God - can perceive the Lord's presence at all times.
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Tall and Latin looking with long dark hair and black saintly eyes he was dressed as if he had just finished a particularly strenuous bolero.
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So far his good is almost entirely unalloyed, which is why some don't like him-it's hard to believe there are people who are so saintly or so uncomplicated.
Anime Nano!
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In addition he was endowed by a dynamic personality, buoyant spirit, and had immense personal magnetism, saintly kindliness and charity, displaying neither envy nor malice.
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In addition he was endowed by a dynamic personality, buoyant spirit, and had immense personal magnetism, saintly kindliness and charity, displaying neither envy nor malice.
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They want to see their saintly everywoman enjoying a chat with a girlfriend, since they derive pleasure from their interactions on the mailing list.
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For some reason the pharmaceutical industry is seen as the devil, while many others in health care are seen as saintly.
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In fact, most of my problems had arisen from being completely unsaintly.
Times, Sunday Times
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From here, a retired military man, a saintly figure suffering from cancer called Jerry Hume, working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ran a lifeline of basic supplies (plus the less essential, occasional journalist) into the inferno of shellfire.
War Child and the Bosnian war 15 years on
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Historically, many leakers have not been saintly people leak for all kinds of reasons.
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At that time his saintly public image was still intact.
The Sun
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Peer Monga Nath belong to Deva-Watala (now is PoK) tehsil Bhimber, district Mirpur and he was a saintly figure revered by both the Hindus and Muslims.
Sports promote the taste of the youth & promote brotherhood and communal harmony
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The saintly qualities of Fr. Solanus compare with those of Blessed Mother Teresa, according to Fr. Benedict Groeschel.
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Kinsey is a biopic that does not conspire to paint an immaculate, saintly, and ultimately one-dimensional portrait of its subject.
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The scientists of previous generations who refused to patent their breakthrough discoveries were neither naive nor saintly.
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Yes, for all his sullen looks, there was something saintly about him.
Somewhere East of Life
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By putting her further back in the drawing than usual, he makes of her a saintly figure in a niche.
Times, Sunday Times
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How would my friend know what a forbearing and saintly person I am if I didn't tell her the challenges I face from my neighbor?
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It seems definite, on the other hand, that the Missa Sine nomine was composed for King Ferdinand, a supposition encouraged by the distich found at the head of this mass in the Verona manuscript: “Ferdinande sacer inter divos referende cantica tinctoris suscipe parva tui” “O Ferdinand, saintly enough to be counted amongst the gods, accept these little compositions by Tinctoris”.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Through this spiritual revalorization of domestic work, Oralia is also turned into a saintly or angelic figure, albeit a humble one.
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The most interesting tidbit about the saintly doctors Cosma and Damian is that there's a hermitage devoted to them where the church is famous for its phallic architecture.
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Today, she is wearing a plain black ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look.
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The slow suicide of Anglicanism is displayed and described in minutest detail, and even those who want to preserve the Chuch, like the saintly Peter Akinola of Nigeria, are allowed to present their arguments in their own words.
Archive 2005-09-11
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Witness her attacks on the saintly Vincent Gray – “brain fossilisation” etc.
Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit
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De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, as they say, but a few who worked with him have spoken of his less-than-saintly actions.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: St. Steve Jobs? Probably Not, But….
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It results in the kind of character that is known as saintly, and is generally accompanied by a strong deficiency in the matter of humour.
At Large
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Xi'an is an ancient city full of treasures and saintly relics.
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Among the many characters is Professor Godbole, the detached and saintly Brahman who is the innocent cause of the contretemps, and who makes his final appearance in supreme tranquillity at the festival of the Hindu temple.
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It seems to me like women have to grin and bear a lot, and still feel pressure to act like saintly selfless birth goddesses.
