That helps explain why they show saintly patience with losing sports teams and touching fidelity to small shopkeepers.

Footballers need saintly patience to put up with some of the abuse they get from the crowd, says Jim White.

And you bear with me with a saintly, condescending patience which undermines my manhood.

You've also got to have a spouse blessed with saintly patience.

Buchanan smiled at her with saintly patience.

Frank is a forgiving man with a saintly patience.

He endured all my abuse with a saintly patience that sometimes made me want to scream.

Instead of becoming peckish, he greeted people one at a time with saintly patience.

The Cheryl David character displayed saintly patience when catching her husband sizing up another woman's breast implants.

Talon continued to stare out the window, a picture of saintly patience.