Sentence examples for good roman from inspiring English sources

Postumus governed with moderation, and, in good Roman fashion, minted excellent coins.

It's easy to forget just how good Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN (1974) is.

Good Roman Catholics go to confession, owning up to their sins and seeking forgiveness, at regular intervals.

His father, a provincial shopkeeper, a good Roman Catholic, a "peace-loving family man... forever bent on harmony," filled him with loathing.

He simply told his congregations that, in his opinion, a vote for Parnellism was incompatible with being a good Roman Catholic.

Such regimes should be compared with those in the age of the good Roman emperors, the period from Nerva (c. 30 98 ce) to Marcus Aurelius (121 180)—the golden times, said Tacitus, when everyone could hold and defend whatever opinions he wished.

On the one hand, under the influence of Pauline missions, was the idea that the "ruling body"—i.e., the existing political order of the Roman Empire was "from God…for your good" (Romans 13:1–4) and that Christians should be "subject to the governing authorities".

It is true that the Roman flagellators are portrayed as viciously sadistic, but there are two good Romans, Pilate and Claudia, to add a counterweight to our understanding of Romanness.

There are many examples in the film of a preposterous dialectic: the bad Jews and the good Romans.

Christians have traditionally pitied those good Romans who lived before the birth of Christ, and, in the same spirit, I feel sorry for those late Victorians who died just too early to read Wodehouse.

The thought of not reading Wodehouse strikes me as no less indecent, and in some ways no less impractical, than walking down Madison Avenue wearing only a pair of loafers.... Christians have traditionally pitied those good Romans who lived before the birth of Christ, and, in the same spirit, I feel sorry for those late Victorians who died just too early to read Wodehouse.