Saintly in a sentence

Damien Chazelle’s debauched, provocative take on Hollywood’s silent era tears through both the director’s reputation as a head-in-the-clouds dreamer and the common misconception that early film was ever a quaint or saintly place.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described Carter as a “saintly and revered public servant,” highlighting her historic diplomatic missions and advocacy for mental health.

Saintly men and women, the abbots and abbesses at the time, guided communities devoted to living a simple Christian life.

And I think the book shows John Lewis was saintly.

Mac is a composite of his saintly mother and his cruel father, with his dark passions stirred by innocence.

The resolution is too pat; the characters too familiar; the patriarch too saintly.

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He seems saintly, but pay close attention and you can tell that all his seemingly boundless kindness is, if nothing else, an awful lot of work.

Let me remind you: The saintly Founding Father, George Washington, was not a practitioner of passive, peaceful, non-violent resistance.

Didn’t Adama Barrow touch the untouchables and shamed the saintly crooks?

It was billed as the first of three scheduled community meetings in response to the troubling uptick in homicides and shootings taking place in the Saintly City.

Modern life has become so complicated that even the most saintly intentions are canceled out by other elements that wannabe do-gooders have no way of controlling.

Of all the pictures to go up on the building, why did we do that saintly wise old man?

Superman as a saintly presence.

If the words of the saintly Chazon Ish are not enough for you, and if you’ve never had the merit of sitting in the dust of the sages of Torah, uncovering their nature firsthand, then there is nothing that I can say that will put your mind at ease.

Mother Miriam Ruth wants to protect her vulnerable protégé, and finds something saintly in her.

Q, his ubiquity inherent in the one-letter nickname, hasn’t quite lived a saintly life.

Recalling the time in Padre Pio’s life when he returned to Pietrelcina while he was ill, the Pope said the saintly Capuchin “felt he was assailed by the Devil” and feared falling into sin.

Beckett's 1930 essay Proust was strongly influenced by Schopenhauer 's pessimism and laudatory descriptions of saintly asceticism.

Eliyahu wrote an approbation to Kahane's Tanakh commentary, Perush Hamacabee, where he refers to Kahane as "HaRav HaGaon" (the rabbinic genius), a praiseworthy title attributed to the very saintly.