creeping Jesus

They became annoyed with him and afterwards, in whispers, accused him of being "a creeping Jesus."

Creeping Jesus, it had near unhinged me-and I wasn't in love with her.

"So Creeping Jesus isn't in on it, eh-a true disciple?"

Creeping Jesus, I thought.

Creeping Jesus, Lynn had christened him the first time they'd visited him in the small Georgia town where he'd based his ministry.

"Weeping, creeping Jesus!"

When you ride with Arnie you're riding with the original Old Creeping Jesus anyway.'

"Come on, Al," Creeping Jesus Malloy says.

Creeping Jesus Malloy and George Bradley were each at a backseat window, firing pistols.

Nolan, whom McCain had mentally dubbed "Creeping Jesus, " sat down two chairs away on the same side.

Going all the way back to the Creeping Jesus And The Garden Tomb Stone Societ...

For some reason she never gets around to carrying out this threat, but it is about the only form of physical violence she doesn't inflict on the sister she calls "Creeping Jesus".

The true Jesus isn't a milquetoast - Creeping Jesus, Blake calls him in derision - but a proud prophet, not a little like what Blake aspired to be himself.

Creeping Jesus is a derogative Hiberno-English term to describe a Roman Catholic seeking to make a public display of religiosity in a manner which seems hypocritical and simply for show.

And he had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it - when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety.

Characters within the novel include Morvern, Lanna, Vanessa the Depresser, Couris Jean, Red Hanna, Tequila Sheila, Creeping Jesus, The Complex Boys, and Granny Phimster.

He talks about, "Vegetarians with wilting beards", "Outer suburban creeping Jesus' eager to begin yoga exercises", and "That dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal wearers and bearded fruit juice drinkers who come flocking toward the smell of progress like bluebottles to a dead cat."