A personality like Disney will never be free from exaggerations, slander and rumours — or, the opposite risk, is to portray him exclusively in a saintly light.
The MacIntoshes were Scotch–Irish and Orangemen and, had they possessed all the saintly qualities of the Catholic calendar, this ancestry would have damned them forever in Gerald's eyes.
However, for more than two thousand years, Confucius has been increasingly deified by later generations, and he has been covered with a layer of saintly color.
This made her a revered, almost saintly figure to her East German readers; at the same time, her consistently uncertain, questioning tone put her on a collision course with the socialist leadership.
Oh, sirs, how excellent it would be to extract from the Scriptures a polity more beautiful and more saintly than that which was extracted therefrom by that rocky and sterile M. Bossuet!
哦,先生们,果能从圣经中提炼出一种政体,比那个顽固而贫瘠的 M. Bossuet 从圣经中提炼出的政体更丽、更圣洁,那将是多么妙啊!
If we want to know the possibilities for spiritual growth, value growth or moral development in human beings, then I maintain that we can learn most by studying our most moral, ethical and saintly people.
The grill shot back with an effect which might in a community less saintly have been described as snappish, and Grant was left in the darkening street. Williams saluted silently from some paces' distance and turned away.
Now, if she had been the heroine of a moral storybook, she ought at this period of her life to have become quite saintly, renounced the world, and gone about doing good in a mortified bonnet, with tracts in her pocket.