saintliness

Example Sentences

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In other words: the saintliness was never in the spread.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025

He was so taken with her charisma and saintliness that he says he remembered exclaiming: “I want to be like this. Wow!”

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

Her proposals for internationally overseen mass migrations and grand-scale geoengineering require faith in widespread saintliness and wisdom that humankind has yet to show.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022

It’s a vision of saintliness that doesn’t account for her 87 years of activism and travel, most of them spent as a full-fledged adult with radical politics.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2021

And if ever my faith in the essential saintliness of humans becomes tattered, I shall think of that evil-looking man.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck