• Given these figures, today's saintly rhetoric needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.

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  • After a going-over, "Saintly Hypocrites and Honest Sinners" by Charles Harrison became "Giggling Gossip" by Neil Schaffer.

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  • She found something saintly and crazed in his undertaking, an element of self-denial, an element of penance.

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  • Mahatma Gandhi, his saintly fellow-worker for independence, was a devout Hindu, but challenged the orthodox with his campaign against untouchability.

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  • It portrays Mr Ivanishvili as a saintly figure with the work ethic of Bill Gates and the moral fibre of Gandhi.

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  • Or do you prefer to unquestioningly worship climate science as if it were produced by saintly beings untainted by worldly matters?

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  • Part of Mr Mandela's saintly aura derives from his tireless appeal to South Africans' nobler instincts, such as forgiveness and remorse.

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  • Christiane (Katrin Sass), a saintly East German Communist believer, falls into a coma just before the Berlin Wall comes down, in 1989.

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  • Even Mr Singh, who is generally seen as a saintly technocrat floating above the fray, has been dragged down into the muck.

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  • In the distant future, he is a space traveller and she is his saintly muse, floating together through the void in a lovely bubble.

    NEWYORKER: The Fountain

  • The guardians of Mr Obama's saintly image do not tolerate satire of any sort and the New Yorker cover has merely reinforced those limits.

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  • Jackson portrays the holy man, Reuben, as near-saintly and a good listener, until he unexpectedly whacks Katie with his huge walking stick for her capricious ways.

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  • But even the most saintly people tell an occasional lie.

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  • It was a saintly ideal, honored chiefly in lip service.

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  • Mr Rushby's account of the saintly John Tradescant's museum in 17th-century London, with its collection of natural wonders and curiosities from the newly discovered worlds of East and West, is gripping.

    ECONOMIST: Heaven on earth

  • Dexter was the avenger who took them down, and Lumen (oy, that name) devolved from an idiosyncratic individual into a saintly rebound, there to redeem Dexter not least in the eyes of the audience.

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  • And while open access supporters should certainly object to the harshness of the penalties being contemplated here, it would be a mistake to transform him into a saintly folk hero of open access.

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  • As Dolly, Laurie has been saddled with too many saintly attributes, but she makes her character an ethereal earth mother, giving her the weight to carry her head-in-the-clouds lines, and delivers a remarkable performance.

    NEWYORKER: The Grass Harp

  • However, voters may choose not to judge this episode on its own, but to lump it in with the petrol, the Dome, the feud, the sleaze, the retirement of the saintly Mo Mowlam and much else.

    ECONOMIST: BAGEHOT

  • There are no fixed principles of reason which transcend these differences and which are every bit of true of the billionaire, private-jet riding, oil executive and the saintly, suffering single mom working at the diner for tips.

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  • In the eyes of some security professionals, Immunity and Netragard themselves are far from saintly: Neither company reports all of its vulnerabilities to the software's manufacturer upon acquiring them, since doing so would devalue the bugs they purchase.

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  • The Task Group includes the First Church Commissioner, Andreas Whittam-Smith, an unusually saintly and numerate erstwhile hack - who gave me my big break in journalism, by recruiting me to help launch the Independent newspaper in 1986 (goodness it feels such a long time ago).

    BBC: Holy pension hole

  • And while most China investors are far from overly bullish on China, nor subscribe to any saintly view of its economic management, the prevailing consensus among portfolio managers who continue to put money to work in China is this: China may be down, but it is not out.

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  • Willie Pearl Ellison, the African-American woman who worked for our family from the time I was an infant a saintly human and my constant ally against my mother let me help her in the kitchen when Mama was off playing bridge or having her hems shortened, or lengthened.

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