Word: angelicizing
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The early Protestants, on the other hand, had little use for either the image or the idea of angels. They rebelled against the "decadent" decoration of Renaissance churches, with their lavishly winged, lushly adorned angels + acting as God's attendants but reigning supreme over earthly citizens. In building a new...
THE ANGELIC NATURE. Angels, the scholars take pains to explain, are not gods, and they are not ghosts or spirits of the dead. They do not spend time "trying to earn their wings," like the sweetly ministering Clarence of It's a Wonderful Life. "I know of no place in...
The experiences of an angelic presence seem to occur most often in moments of heightened awareness -- when everyday life has already been disrupted by some pressing fear or obstacle. Though often cast as rescuers, angels also seem to intervene to remove not the danger but the fear of it. Among...
HAVE YOU EVER PERSONALLY FELT AN ANGELIC PRESENCE IN YOUR LIFE?
At this bourgeois Christmas Eve gathering, social dancing -- the children and their parents together -- fosters this gentle civilizing process. Later the young protagonist Marie (Jessica Lynn Cohen) has a dream touched off by her naughty kid brother Fritz, who breaks her favorite new toy, a nutcracker. The dream starts as...