Sentence examples for a savior in a from inspiring English sources

But, in the absence of God, Dickinson never ceased hoping for a savior in a mortal guise — indeed, in a virile guise, paternally enfolding.

Clint Mathis has to be a savior in a big way, like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson saving the N.B.A. in the 80's, Wayne Gretzky spreading hockey to the Sun Belt, Cal Ripken Jr. restoring baseball's reputation after the '94 strike.

For Knicks fans, the message is clear: nepotism lives, and the organization will continue to be run like a frat house, no matter which savior-in-a-suit draws up the X's and O's.

Janice Reid, Paris Tories and foreign affairs The article "Tories see a savior in Cameron" (July 11) provides a favorable analysis of the personal appeal and national politics of the Tory Party leader David Cameron.

But in a plot twist worthy of "Bleak House," the Huntington Free Library and Reading Room found a savior, in the form of Cornell University (with a little assistance from four justices of the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court).

Aceves was a savior in relief and Matsui, Jeter and Posada had productive games.

The intercession worked; Bush has been regarded as something of a savior in Saudi Arabia since the Gulf War.

As early as the sixth century B.C., Jews, exiled in Babylonia, found a savior in Persia's Cyrus the Great, who helped them return to Israel.

Watson is portrayed as a savior in the fiction of Edward Abbey, the author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang" (1975), a seminal book for eco-saboteurs.

The man at the door did not exactly look like a savior, in his beat-up jeans and unruly hair, his soft eyes and half-smile.

The lesson for someone who presents himself as a savior in 2009 is this: Until 9/11, Mr. Schoen recalls, "times were almost too good for our candidate".