saintlike

The original windows, complete with Confederate battle flags, had depicted Lee and Jackson as saintlike figures, with Lee bathed in rays of heavenly light and Jackson welcomed by trumpets into paradise after his death.

Indeed, Ms. Day often reacted negatively when people praised her as saintlike.

Finch comes across as impossibly good, almost saintlike.

Nick Cave’s fans arrived carrying gifts — flowers, handwritten letters, even a portrait of the artist himself set in stained glass, stoic and saintlike.

Her saintlike patience and technical expertise, as well as a penchant for capturing people’s emotional intensity, imbue her images with a pulsing, urban kineticism.