"sinner of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is guilty of committing a sin or who habitually engages in sinful behavior. Example: "The preacher urged the congregation to pray for forgiveness for their sins and to renounce their roles as sinners of greed and envy."
These narrators, however, are as unreliable as Robert Wringhim, the fanatical sinner of Hogg's novel.
There's something of Measure For Measure's Angelo in Norrell, the zealot who can't help but be the biggest sinner of all (please don't contact Pseud's Corner).
The Cabana Bar at Striped Bass in Tarrytown is imbued with the presence of Jimmy Buffett, that patron sinner of tropical languor.
But since the romantic movement, the doppelgängers in books, ranging from James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner of 1824 to Martin Amis's Money of 1984, by way of Poe, Dickens and Dostoevsky, are more problematic.
But in the eyes of the church, Mr. Kibwetere had become a sinner of the worst kind, claiming to have contact with God himself and refusing the orders of an old friend, Bishop John Baptist Kakubi, to desist.
Claudia Mo Man-ching, a Legco member from the pan-dem Civic Party, says no pan-dem would endorse the NPC plan, for fear of being branded a "sinner of history".How to stay occupiedMr Tai and his colleagues in Occupy are also cornered and faltering.
Saints and sinners of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your pride.
Chapter 11 of the Manu-smriti warns sinners of the necessity of expiating their misdeeds and attaches a purifying effect to confession and repentance.
The title of John Bunyan's "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" (1666), a masterpiece of the conversion narrative, is an allusion to an epistle of Paul: "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief".
For Auden the great tragic heroes are the sinners of the world; the comedies represent a movement towards a redeemed community.
The eye quickly falls down past the plummeting sinners of The Last Judgment, Michelangelo's giant mural that puts Dalí in the shade for eccentricity.
