plaster saint in English
noun
1
a person who makes a show of being without moral faults or human weakness, especially in a hypocritical way.
We were all trying to be as solicitous of her family as we possibly could, without making her a plaster saint , which is not very realistic.
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1. She wasn't exactly a plaster saint... your Julie Roussel with her canary.
2. And Glass in turn wrote obsessively, devotedly, as if of some plaster saint, about his elder brother Seymour, his Literary Ideal.