Sentence examples for perfectly blameless from inspiring English sources

And perfectly blameless individuals began flagellating themselves: "Am I a hipster?" I wondered if I could guess the root of their pain.

So that I hope I may with justice pronounce myself an author perfectly blameless…" When he died in 1745, Swift, remembered as "the gloomy Dean", was buried in Dublin with the famous epitaph "ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit" (where fierce indignation can no further tear apart his heart) inscribed on his tomb.

Gladstone may not have been perfectly right with "perfectly blameless," but the more one knows about the gap between John Ruskin's genius and his understanding of how ordinary mortals actually lived their lives, the clearer it becomes that "tragedy" is by no means too grand a word to apply to the disjunction at the center of his being.

Some years after the events dramatized in "The Countess" ["A Twisted Victorian Love Story That Won't Die Out" by Lucinda Franks, May 28], William Ewart Gladstone, the prime minister, said to his daughter, "Should you ever hear anyone blame Millais, or his wife, or Mr. Ruskin, remember there was no fault: there was misfortune, even tragedy: all three were perfectly blameless".

It's possible that perfectly blameless words that merely sound like n-words would fall under his editorial scalpel.

Others were utterly blameless.

This isn't 1950s Britain and Carl and Sally's partners aren't unloving bores – the Nineties heart-throb Sean Maguire is perfectly puppyish as Sally's blameless, yet irritating fiancé – which makes for a different and newly perplexing moral conundrum.

Blameless children.

The blameless hatching chick.

But they were blameless.

Sister Ping was hardly blameless.