Sentence examples for saintly virtue from inspiring English sources

My Catholic mother saw saintly virtue in the rabbit's near martyrdom and, through the miracle of crying a real tear, quasi-messianic resurrection.

The Khalsa was a mystical rebirth for the Five Beloved into a new familial brotherhood of sant-sipahis, (saint-warriors), embodying in their person a confluence of saintly virtue and martial prowess.

Admirable as they were, those saintly virtues don't begin to explain his political genius.

Reports of Louis's exacting standards of rulership and his saintly virtues were reinforced by the precepts of the religious advisers who surrounded the adolescent Philip.

Only distant church officials buy into the so-called miracles she has so arduously and calculatedly performed; as seen through the eyes of Father Damien and her other neighbors at Little No Horse, she emerges as a thoroughly manipulative creature, lacking in forgiveness, compassion and all the other saintly virtues.

The legend is described in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which celebrates the saintly virtues of Æthelthryth, but speaks less highly of Seaxburh, referring only to her marriage, succession as abbess and translation of her sister's relics.

The housing market has required that virtue in saintly proportions over much of the last two years.

Isn't there something cheap about taking a two-dimensional character of methodical virtue – Anna is so saintly she can be boring – and then, in one violent scene, leveling her?

Hard enough to be fooled by the party; even harder to accept that you deluded yourself into believing that the poor are, by virtue of their poverty, uniquely saintly or strong.

Janaka, a ksatriya by birth, attained the rank of a brahmin by virtue of his ripe wisdom and saintly character and is considered a rajarishi (king-sage).

Such helpmeets form a neighbourhood watch over the preparation of the text and can be recognised by their uniforms of spotless virtue - like a chorus of eager well-wishers thrust into saintly straitjackets.