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单词 plaster saint
例句 plaster saint
So let’s get to know Jenner as a person, as opposed to deifying her as a plaster saint. Hadley Freeman: the trouble with Caitlyn Jenner 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z
Moorcock evidently has some difficulty with the post-mortem transformation of his old friend into a kind of cultural plaster saint. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z
The gang of plaster saints and a thud from the church caused me to stuff myself, like prepubescent pimento, into one end of the carpet. My obsessive quest to solve the mystery of a missing Virgin Mary 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z
I refrained from making Mrs Gadny an object of pity, a plaster saint, because I loathed the patronising sentimentality that was then an essential ingredient in fictional depictions of old age. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z
But it’s too bad that while Mr. Obama’s story about his date has tension, a moral and politics, Mr. Tanne’s has plaster saints. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z
“I can’t begin to tell you how patronized and stereotyped the elderly were at that time: put-upon plaster saints were the dramatic order of the day,” he told me. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
Mr. Lelyveld has restored human depth to the Mahatma, the plaster saint, allowing his flawed human readers to feel a little closer to his lofty ideals of nonviolence and universal brotherhood. Books of The Times: Appreciating Gandhi Through His Human Side 2011-03-29T19:55:27Z
Her more faithful companions were several life-size plaster saints and a stuffed buffalo which had got permanently stuck in her hall. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z
Lydia is an emblem of black female empowerment, but she's no plaster saint. "Southland": TV's best cop show survives -- and thrives 2011-03-01T15:02:00Z
And Dean of Windsor the Very Rev David Conner used his sermon to puncture any idea of the prince as a "plaster saint". Relief as Queen makes it to the abbey for memorial 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z
“Martha was certainly no plaster saint. She really was not. But I think that she was the moral true north for quite a lot of us.” A Memorial for the Remarkable Martha Gellhorn 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z
But that image was as false as the plaster saint that preceded it. Opinion | I went back to the man who hit me. Why? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z
There are no plaster saints on this stage. ‘Hamilton’: A patriotic and subversive story of will, skill and a quill 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z
On a table in a windowless room, plaster saint statuettes are lined up next to African dolls, perfume bottles, candles and a ram’s skull, horns still attached. Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z
I'm not a mild man, nor a plaster saint; some folk might say that sometimes I'm a little quick of temper. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z
Without temptation you may make a plaster saint, but not a human hero. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z
THE portrait that I seek to paint Is of no ordinary hero, No customary plaster saint,— For nothing of the sort was Nero. Misrepresentative Men 2011-06-05T02:00:15.977Z
Such a ragout of rusty iron and plaster saints did not disturb us at all; and running triumphantly across the bridge, we entered the monastery, swords drawn, to ferret out the monks. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z
I have created for myself no plaster saint. An Unknown Lover
It would be futile to pretend that there are twenty thousand plaster saints in the Metropolitan Police—there are not. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police
"A sort of plaster saint, anyhow," retorted Tom. Tommy
An answer has come to my prayer for 18 pr. stuff: not the answer that turns away wrath, but the answer that provokes a plaster saint. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I
Rupert Brooke was far from being either a plaster saint or a vivid public witness. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
A woman of the warm-blooded south and no plaster saint, she answered presently with shy, reluctant lips the kisses of her lover. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
Men are not plaster saints—or, still less, live ones, with the power of miracle; but struggling creatures of flesh and blood, who do, not what they will, but what they can. The Mating of Lydia
Are you and I a couple of plaster saints? The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love
Well," ventured Hal, "if what I hear is true, the Republican chairman isn't a plaster saint. King Coal : a Novel
No, Young Lady, don't try to make any plaster saint out of me. Lifted Masks; stories
And no one pretends that the whole British Army is an army of "plaster saints," that every officer is the "little father" of his men, and all relations ideal. Towards the Goal
Neither my wife, nor her staff, nor I ever made any pretence to ourselves that they were plaster saints because their manners were good. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
Whiskered photographs fade on morning-glory wallpapers, plaster saints pine under glass bells, antimacassars droop from plush sofas, yellowing diplomas display their seals on office walls. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
Laura was not a plaster saint; she was a generous, clamative, combative little creature of genius, full of humour, imagination, temperament and impulse. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
Yet now and then, as she stood by one of the plaster saints, she smiled. The Garden of Allah
She had known he had led the life of his sort; he had never played the plaster saint to her. A Poor Wise Man
For here, in Africa, she began to realise the wideness of the world, and that many things must surely seem to the Creator what these plaster saints seemed just then to her. The Garden of Allah
We passed a chapel with plaster saints in white niches above paper flowers. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
For a vagueness had come into her mind like the vagueness of twilight that filled the space beneath the starry roof, softening the crudeness of the ornaments, the garish colours of the plaster saints. The Garden of Allah
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