saintliness

Example Sentences

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And when you watch John Wulp’s “The Saintliness of Margery Kempe,” a curiosity of a comedy inspired by the memoir, you know that this is something its grand, restless, flailingly ambitious heroine absolutely would do.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2018

Saintliness, like beauty, exists in the eye of the beholder.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saintliness, which other generations held in awe and reverence, provokes now a pitying smile.

From The Great Discovery by Maclean, Norman

Saintliness does not set well upon you, madam.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

The subject of Saintliness left us face to face with the question, Is the sense of divine presence a sense of anything objectively true?

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William