Word: sainthood
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...many modern Olympians are built less like gods than monsters - or monster trucks. And a few of them behave like monsters, too. Superhuman or sub? One sometimes wonders. If the Olympic Movement is a religion - and in its rhetoric it often resembles one - then its definition of sainthood could use some work...
...Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean’s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
Also, it’s no sure thing yet, but keep an eye out for Murphy in Wendy’s ads now that former fast food magnate Dave Thomas has passed away. Reports over the next few days may also consider Murphy in the running for knighthood, sainthood and/or the papacy...
...solitaries that few people seek out and fewer movies think to put at their center. But inside this gamine child of 23 is a priestess of the imagination, a ruthless schemer, a canny do-gooder, a lover. She has mischief in her, and a kind of secular sainthood...
...subsided, and the tumor vanished." Episcopal Bishop Salvatore Lobo, head of a team that will deliver 35,000 pages of Teresa's good deeds to the Vatican, says, "This miracle meets the requirements. It is organic, permanent, immediate and intercessionary in nature." A second miracle is still required for sainthood...