whisky priest

She adds, trying to comfort him: "You're sort of a whisky priest - you at least know when you've done the wrong thing."

A "whisky priest," and not the finest example of his profession, he is an alcoholic who has also fathered a child.

The title refers to the term "whisky priest".

Father Berkeley, a whisky priest with a good heart but declining powers, does what he can but is often indisposed.

Whisky Priests were a UK folk band active during the 1980s and 90s.

In 1994, Knight decided to branch out as a live sound engineer and his first job was with a band called The Whisky Priest.

Season 3 (Episode 6) of Yes Minister was called "The Whisky Priest".

Although she shows support when the "whisky priest" reappears, the narrative leaves the character of Maria incomplete... with implications of resentment.

The Whisky Priest from The Power And The Glory does it for me.

The main character in The Night of the Hunter would undoubtedly qualify as a whisky priest, and is in fact a murderer as well.

Nicholas Wolfwood, from the anime series Trigun, may be considered a whisky priest.

Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist has some attributes of a whisky priest.

However, Annie reassures him that he is more a whisky priest: unlike Sir Humphrey, at least he knows when he has done the wrong thing.

The lieutenant has also had bad experiences with the church in his youth, and as a result there is a personal element in his search for the whisky priest.

Whisky priest (sometimes Whiskey priest) is a priest or ordained minister who shows clear signs of moral weakness, while at the same time teaching a higher standard.

The character Enoch Root in the novels of Neal Stephenson also shares some of the characteristics of a whisky priest.

"The Whisky Priest" is the twentieth episode of the BBC comedy series Yes Minister and was first broadcast 16 December 1982.

Contrastingly, she is also played as a sympathetic character, especially when her husband has been thwarted by the Civil Service apparatus, for example in The Whisky Priest.

The whisky priest was first portrayed by Paul Scofield (in Peter Brook's 1956 London production) and then by Olivier on television.

You used to be quite a pigeon fancier remember the feeling you got sucking arrests from your pigeons soft and evil like the face of your whisky priest brother?

("The Power and the Glory," Graham Greene's novel that follows the hunting down of a "whisky priest" by government forces, is set during the Cristero rebellion.)

Friar Tuck, of Robin Hood fame, is sometimes depicted as a whisky priest, although more often his physical weakness for food and drink is not shown as spiritual weakness.

(Both Scott Spencer and Scott Turow wanted to be Graham Greene's Whisky Priest, but Spencer claimed him first.)

The main character in the story is a nameless 'whisky priest', who combines a great power for self-destruction with pitiful cravenness, an almost painful penitence and a desperate quest for dignity.

He seems to have studied past civil service actions in depth, occasionally recommending historically proven responses (such as the "Rhodesia Solution" for a potential arms scandal in "The Whisky Priest").