Sentence examples for plaster saint from inspiring English sources

The figure could almost be a plaster saint, its bland face lost among the froth.

"I don't want anyone to feel I'm posing as a plaster saint," he wrote in "Satchmo".

Mandela was neither some passive, word-spinning proponent of eventual liberation, nor a plaster saint.

The myth of him as a plaster saint is still very strong.

Based on Dreiser's remembrance of his beloved mother, Jennie emerges as a plaster saint with whom most modern readers find it difficult to empathize.

Ambivalent and stretchable, he seems, all in all, a more interesting figure than Atticus Finch, the plaster saint for whom he provided the mold.

The seven life-size plaster saints went to her daughter Jojo Davies – "nobody else wanted them," she said, slightly puzzled.

Her more faithful companions were several lifesize plaster saints and a stuffed buffalo, permanently stuck in her hall.

The soldiers of his poems are drunken, looting, syphilitic lowlifes, because "single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints".

That doesn't turn proprietors into plaster saints, but nor does it make them, as a class, into the ravening Citizen Hearsts of legend.

Ms. Ferrandi proceeded to work on the table in her studio on Grand Street, where she restores plaster saints and other religious ornaments for a living.