Even where a human life seems to be clearly saintly or sinful, our judgments are not final. |
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She depicts an almost saintly figure, virtually devoid of human weakness or error. |
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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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Today, she is wearing a plain black ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look. |
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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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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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The practice of mutual reverence for each other's spiritual and saintly figures will promote genuine mutual respect. |
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Worship of saintly relics became a pressing theological concern in the high Middle Ages. |
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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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Somehow, though, the body and its components have recently gained the holy quality previously reserved for saintly relics. |
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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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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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It seems to me like women have to grin and bear a lot, and still feel pressure to act like saintly selfless birth goddesses. |
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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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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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The scientists of previous generations who refused to patent their breakthrough discoveries were neither naive nor saintly. |
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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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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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This is not a romantic, Dickensian look at a saintly consumptive young woman. |
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The good characters are decidedly saintly, and the bad guys aren't really all that bad when push comes to shove. |
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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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In Search of Susanna is a testimonial to a courageous rather than a saintly life, one written in media res. |
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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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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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Not unconnected with these two mercenary characters are the Cohens, the family with whom the saintly Mordecai lodges. |
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Thus we recognize the profound influence for good that learned and saintly teachers have on our society. |
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Travellers bought saintly figurines as souvenirs and guidebooks warning them of treacherous routes, fetid streams, and inefficacious relics. |
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He was a great pretender to the saintly character, a animose declaimer against Charles I, and one of the foremost to encourage and justify the rebellion. |
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Throughout his life among us he was truly a saintly, humble and gentle man. |
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These were books populated by snivelers and goody-two-shoes, the most saintly of whom were sure to die in some tediously drawn-out scene. |
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Here was a saintly bishop whose vita would not easily suit Lyon's burghers' ideas about a healthy relationship between secular and spiritual authority in their city. |
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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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The defining image of Luther, chin tilted defiantly upwards, saintly, contra mundum, had been cast in print as effectively as in bronze, fixed forever in the western imagination. |
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It is therefore appropriate at this point to draw a spiritual portrait of this saintly man. |
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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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Fleiss makes the film as a devotee would, depicting Weir in a saintly glow. |
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Sometimes, that intense social judgment, that expectation of saintly loving maternal perfection, can destroy a mother. |
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Top U.S. officials contribute with their daily evocation of saintly principles that the United States itself has often defied. |
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Diana came to see her as a sweet, saintly woman whose charity work was an inspiration. |
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He was an saintly apostle of peace, love and unity and a great poet. |
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We are hip to your covert, altruistic acts, but there are many close to you who will be floored by your stealthy, saintly ways. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mokṣa can be achieved only by the saintly, or perhaps by those who have died in Vārānasi and had their ashes strewed on the Ganges River. |
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In this book the hero Amaury's hopeless love for the saintly and unapproachable Madame de Couaën reflects its author's passion for Adèle Hugo. |
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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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Fra Filippo Lippi was – like the saintly Fra Angelico – in holy orders, but by contrast he was a bad friar. |
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Other than behave with saintly altruism and give it to the people of the Philippines' Leyte province, say, or use it to stamp out malaria? |
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Thus, God willed that future generations should see in them models of saintly children. |
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Reasons for my Gingrich blues No lunar dreams or Grecian cruise No credit line from Tiffany's No saintly wife, his former squeeze. |
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Find yourself at the centre of an intriguing mystery surrounding a saintly throat bone discovered at the ancient Brixworth Church. |
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To be light, salt, a lamp on the lamp stand, a city on the mountain means being saintly, efficaciously saintly, legibly saintly. |
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I do not say in Parliament that it is our function to deal with these saintly matters, nor to intrude in that domain. |
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However, lest we make him sound too saintly, we must remember that John had a wonderful sense of humour and could be quite wicked about things. |
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Although Judith commits murder in the poem, she is constantly doused with a saintly light. |
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Let us grasp it with the burning zeal of our saintly founder. |
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He is described as below medium height, well proportioned, strong, with a bright eye, a clear complexion, and a saintly, intellectual face. |
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Stephen's Vita is a hagiography, intended to show Wilfrid as a saintly man, and to buttress claims that he was a saint. |
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One uncle was the saintly and ingenious Ronnie Knox, Evelyn Waugh's friend, Macmillan's tutor and the establisher of the rules of detective fiction, among other distinctions. |
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An empathetic nurse in a breathtakingly delicate scene becomes an almost saintly apparition, ministering angel and sensual goddess, allowing him to remember what love and tenderness felt like. |
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I love how season two has revealed the saintly Catelyn Stark as a slightly ditsy stirrer who even her kids can't trust and the addition of Brienne Tarth, her hulking, she-warrior protector, is just perfect. |
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Today the Tibetan Buddhists believe that the saintly Sonam Gyatso is alive in his latest reincarnation, in the person of Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, recently seen smiling beatifically in ads for a computer brand. |
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As for the others, our saintly dreaming compatriots are so numerous that those associations and organisations that trade on their naiveté have many happy days ahead of them. |
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In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. |
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The princess's saintly image may fray a bit more from the tales of a romping love life, including an assignation where she wore nothing but a fur coat. |
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In addition to suggesting that saintly relics might display their curative effects through magnetic influence, he included very uncomplimentary comments regarding Jesuit scholastics. |
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The thought that a saint began these studies encourages us to live these studies in the spirit of Saint Jerome and the other saintly exegetes who sought the face of God in the Scriptures. |
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French children learn a legend of a saintly man exiled by the emperor to Périgord in France. Later repentant, this ruler sent the holy man sixty-six camels laden with provisions. |
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Jacqueline Wilson updated attitudes toward disability in Katy, a reworking of Susan Coolidge's 1872 novel What Katy Did, in which a headstrong tomboy becomes saintly after an accident leaves her unable to walk. |
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The fertile intuitions of saintly founders and foundresses demonstrate, more radically than any other argumentation, the groundless and precarious nature of such attitudes. |
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It whitens the saintly characters of some and blackens others. We shall find it worth while, if we seek not to fumble our human relationships, to compel a revelation of what is in the accuser's mind. |
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I became a victim of both men and women, because I found out early in life that those nuns who had trained to be so saintly were just plain women. |
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Will our new documents succeed to get the spirit of the religious enthusiastic and to form new saintly persons as the documents that have existed until now have done? |
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He does what he can and not what he would like to do, especially with regard to certain members of the community who dislike his simple, saintly ways. |
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The first register, comprised of flat niches, harbours saintly knights, crosses, stylized cypresses in the Turkish and Iranian style, but also the Iranian emblem of a rising sun and a lion. |
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The inheritance we received from our saintly Founders encourages and challenges us to intensify our work of evangelisation in this country and in the world. |
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Thus 666 the judged power contrasts everything saintly and good. |
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A hasid is a pious, saintly individual whose dealings with fellow humans are predicated on the notion of hesed, kindness, love, grace. |
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The prestige of being associated with the saintly founder was of no small importance. |
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Both stories related to Columba using his saintly blessing to raise people out of poverty and make them wealthier. |
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During the reign of this Manu, the sons of Vashista, headed by Pramada, became the seven saintly persons. |
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Paul Burrell maintains his saintly role as Princess Di's man-shaped hankie, after the collapse of the court case against him. |
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When the two saintly warriors are together and mounted upon horses, they may resemble earthly manifestations of the archangels Michael and Gabriel. |
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The Germans knew whom they were up against and did not expect him to put them under pressure. He belonged to the Kuropatkin school of saintly passivity. |
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Revered by high Tories who considered him a saintly martyr, he was condemned by Whig historians, such as Samuel Rawson Gardiner, who thought him duplicitous and delusional. |
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Released at the zenith of teenyboppers' Leomania, Mask casts DiCaprio as evil and saintly twins, a dual role that was a royal pain for some critics. |
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Later, King Henry VIII caused the shrine and saintly relics to be destroyed, but some have been recovered to be housed at Shrewsbury and Holywell. |
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Think Big won the big race twice and Let's Elope and Saintly were amongst two of his other special charges who were first past the post. |
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Saintly lawyer Toadie's being a bit of a rebel by skiving off work to spend time with his girlfriend? |
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