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In each time period, David Kelly plays a well-meaning but blinkered man of the cloth; Sheila Tousey does the wise, wry matriarchs; and Rainbow Dickerson gets the reproachful sisters.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
For a man of the cloth, his answers to my questions were non-ideological.
—Mohsen Milani, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2013
The Good Doctor was indeed a man of the cloth, having received his doctorate from the Missionaries of the New Truth, a church operating out of Chicago.
—Rory Feehan, SPIN, 9 Nov. 2023
Nora Mathison: Luckily, Sarah had a connection to a man, a man of the cloth.
—Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
And Sparks is equally compelling as a man of the cloth who deep down seems to know his folksy brand of mediation has little effect.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
But as a man of the cloth, Berkeley had some strident views that went beyond contemporary acceptance of slavery.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
For a man of the cloth, his answers to my questions were non-ideological.
—Mohsen Milani, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2013
The Good Doctor was indeed a man of the cloth, having received his doctorate from the Missionaries of the New Truth, a church operating out of Chicago.
—Rory Feehan, SPIN, 9 Nov. 2023
Nora Mathison: Luckily, Sarah had a connection to a man, a man of the cloth.
—Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
And Sparks is equally compelling as a man of the cloth who deep down seems to know his folksy brand of mediation has little effect.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
But as a man of the cloth, Berkeley had some strident views that went beyond contemporary acceptance of slavery.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
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“Man of the cloth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man%20of%20the%20cloth. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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