saintlier

In wrestling, portraying oneself as fundamentally good—or at least better and saintlier than the audience—is a great way to break bad.

They care about telling themselves that their profession is saintlier than it is, and they’re superior to the reformed liar who wants to work with them.

And he was probably saintlier than they were, because he was their child.

We find, as Lowell says in his noble ode— We find in our dull road their shining track; In every nobler mood We feel the orient of their spirit glow, Part of our life's unalterable good, Of all our saintlier aspiration; They come transfigured back, Secure from change in their high-hearted ways, Beautiful evermore, and with the rays Of morn on their white shields of expectation.

In talk, no one was saintlier in his way, and yet, as politician and Churchman, he had ever been on the side of the world, and the Minister of the day ever trusted him, as it was known p. 74that his vote was safe.