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saintly black character

In film and literature, a stock black character who exists solely to aid white characters, often through the use of magical powers or mystical intuition. Also known as the "Magical Negro." "The Green Mile" is often cited as a film that perpetuates the saintly black character trope.
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Lambert's martyrdom was more difficult to realign, in part because two hagiographic traditions had developed as clerics over the centuries worked to render his demise more saintly. According to his Vita prima, Lambert was the victim of a power struggle between his family and that of the Merovingian administrator Dodo.
Lacking internal evidence for the period 1552-64, the story resumes with the "revolution" implemented by the saintly Milanese archbishop, Carlo Borromeo, between 1564 and 1584.
It made interesting viewing but if the saintly Clare Short had real concerns about her colleagues' behaviour and the morality of the war, why did she wait so long to sing out?
The Order believed in 'British democracy and constitutional monarchy, the Christian myths and saintly symbols of the British Isl es, and economic and cultural "progress" through new innovations and technologies'.
After his father dies, saintly Nicholas (Charlie Hunnam) has to fend for himself and his mother and sister.
Today, he's known mainly as a saintly theologian who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1988.
Perhaps it's because the people in Bible stories are usually depicted as very saintly or very evil, and it's hard to make a convincing dance drama out of absolutes.
This rousing invocation seems on one hand to affirm Saint George's role as the patron saint of all England and Saint Hugh's subordinate position as merely the saintly protector of shoemakers.
In an allusive bit of casting, Poulin sheds his Elvis persona to appear in 15 fevrier as a saintly, pro--rebellion priest.
A strong testimony to the consequently extraordinary self-confidence of some saintly figures can be found in the words of Abul-Abbas as-Sabti (d.
I know that modern medicine and a saintly live-in nurse are why my grandma is alive, but I angrily question the purpose of her life.
As a result, Fortune will miss the ride on Princess Margaret Stakes winner Saintly Speech in the Lowther Stakes on the Knavesmire.
"Saintly" (aka "Bad Five") is a $12 million horror-action project in the tradition of adult comic books such as 2000 A.D.
Puritans wanted their vision enforced by the state, to stamp out the varied heresies and blasphemies that threatened their saintly realm.
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