His popularity, however, which he enjoyed throughout his life, and which rendered him immortal among the mystics, rests not on his scholarship, but on his saintliness and thaumaturgic powers.
en.wikipedia.org He idealizes, to begin with, his particular solution of his basic conflict: compliance becomes goodness, love, saintliness; aggressiveness becomes strength, leadership, heroism, omnipotence; aloofness becomes wisdom, self-sufficiency, independence.
en.wikipedia.org Oh, that elitist health minister with her barbaric saintliness, her annoying modernizing of the health care system and her endless outreach to fellow humans.
www.thestar.com I am fascinated by "virtue signalling": the very modern phenomenon of using people, places and concepts as shorthand for one's saintliness.
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