He said his experience of conflicts and meeting war correspondents "leads me to suggest, controversially, that it is just a little bit possible that they are not all entirely saintly at every minute of the day.
On the other hand the creation of a giant looming Voldemort/David Cameron (yes, Boyle: we noticed) menacing the saintly NHS with his scythe more than made up for it.
Other than behave with saintly altruism and give it to the people of the Philippines' Leyte province, say, or use it to stamp out malaria?
Even the new edition makes him out to be a more egotistical and less saintly personality than he appears in the film, especially after he began his connection with his then-nurse, Elaine Mason (Maxine Peake).
Fra Filippo Lippi was – like the saintly Fra Angelico – in holy orders, but by contrast he was a bad friar.
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If the nation's local surgeries were ever staffed by saintly philanthropists who gladly visited the sick in the small hours of a rainy morning, such paragons - although they exist - are now hard to find.
However universities are not as saintly as they like to pretend: grade inflation is also rife in higher education.
Rules in the Tokugawa (Edo) period in Japan specified what sort of toys parents could give their children.Special report Exclusively for everybody Saintly or sinful?
But he has done so surprisingly sparingly and obliquely, given his saintly reputation.King Bhumibol's only other English biography, "The Revolutionary King" by William Stevenson, argues that his interventions have been effective precisely because they have been guarded and infrequent.
And at least 65 countries, probably more, are preparing through meetings in Vienna, Bonn, Brussels and Oslo to sign a formal treaty in Ottawa at the end of the year that will commit them to a total ban on the use, production, sale and stockpile of these lethal devices.A lot of the countries signing up to this Canadian initiative are of the saintly sort, unlikely ever to use or sell the weapon.
