Word: angelicizing
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This battered hulk of proud, angelic bark,
Jimmy Carter's first-debate nervousness had vanished. Gerald Ford's second-debate foot-in-mouth was cured. Both candidates were more poised, presidential and restrained than before-in fact, at times they sounded downright angelic. Both avoided the kind of fatal gaffe that inspires a politician'...
Take sex, for one of Farber's examples. Nobody has more effectively satirized the solemn absurdity of the Masters and Johnson laboratory ("I'm Sorry, Dear") or more wittily staged the gauche bedroom farce of the puritan turned hedonist ("My Wife, the Naked Movie Star"). But Farber is...
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
Bergman is obviously infatuated with the opera; he hasn't been so playful since he made Smiles of a Summer Night. His animals look as though they were stolen from a children's nursery. The dragon in the first act struts on breathing fire and smoke, minces aggressively across the...