Word: angelicizing
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Granger then dupes strait-laced Artist Pier (Teresa) Angeli into making the first copy. Sanders plays along with the scheme while wisely acting on the theory that Granger plans to sell the real painting himself. Ultimately, after each double-cross has been doubled and redoubled, Scoundrel Granger is regenerated by...
At the center of The Loved and Envied shines Ruby Maclean, a 53-year-old beauty of angelic character, much too good for the decadent and useless idlers who surround her. Sympathetically and quietly, she administers the last rites to a dying generation. One friend, a rich old Italian duke...
According to Seaton-Segall biology, unborn children are little angelic sprites who haunt the premises of their parents-to-be, wistfully awaiting their entrance into a solid world where they can taste ice cream. While Gigi Perreau thus languishes to be conceived, she gives tips to the angels on how...
Two elegant portraitists, Reynolds and Gainsborough, ruled the calm and decorous art world of 18th Century London. But there was also an opposition, most notably represented by young, deeply religious William Blake with his alternately angelic and demonic visions. Others in the opposition ducked the angels; they preferred the Pit...
The youthful Gian-Carlo ("a beautiful child until my nose began to grow") first thought of becoming a composer when he was six; he remembers setting "the most erotic verses of D'Annunzio to angelic little tunes." It was a marionette theater, which his mother gave him when he...