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But the cost of rescuing Cash from the metaphysical fog has been to turn him into a plaster saint.
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Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
Politicians are people, after all, and not plaster saints.
—Author: Mark Z. Barabak, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2019
But Margaret Thatcher is far too consequential to be retired as a plaster saint or to stand in for the creative destruction of global capitalism or to serve as the touchstone by which the bien-pensants establish their bona fides.
—Benjamin Schwarz, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
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Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
Politicians are people, after all, and not plaster saints.
—Author: Mark Z. Barabak, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2019
But Margaret Thatcher is far too consequential to be retired as a plaster saint or to stand in for the creative destruction of global capitalism or to serve as the touchstone by which the bien-pensants establish their bona fides.
—Benjamin Schwarz, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
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“Plaster saint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plaster%20saint. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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