Equally adept at playing a saintly suburban mother and a slatternly Southern bombshell, she may be the Streep of her generation.

Ralph's beautiful, saintly mother, Emma (Shauna MacDonald), hospitalized with an unidentified illness, is a maternal angel; even when she falls into a coma, an air of holiness envelops her.

Your best story about how your saintly mother needed the dough to pay off an unsympathetic bookie will be met by a stony silence.

There are saintly mothers and drunken daughters.

He thanked God that his own saintly mother had never scended into the pits of depravity in which so much of hum ity swam.

Trish Foley, Victoria magazine's editorial director, developed her all-white third-floor nursery for a saintly mother and child.

His mother is both incompetent and neglectful, which makes her immediately stand out from the saintly and long-suffering mothers in similar books.

The film Four Brothers (2005) is loosely based on this story's depiction of brothers trying to atone for their sins to a saintly mother who has recently died.

Eleanor's in the car ahead of us with my saintly mother.

Or a saintly mother stricken with cancer.