Word: angellic
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...scourging lasts only eight or nine lashes, but they snap and sting; the soldiers wind up for their work like Olympic discus throwers. At Jesus' death there's no earthquake, only rain. Zeffirelli suggests that the response to a Savior's death would be the tears of angel, not the rumblings of subterranean spirits...
While holed up in Widener Library several years ago doing research for his bestseller, The Blank Slate, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker found himself fixating on a dying man clutching an angel. Both man and angel were the subjects of a John Singer Sargent painting that illustrates a dying soldier’s glory...
...recalls. “I used it in the book as an example of how attitudes towards violence have changed over the twentieth century. The idea is that you can die for your country and you are really happy. You get to clutch a sexy angel. Nowadays, we [think of] Saving Private Ryan... there is a general repugnance towards...
...ground and I could see the puck in front of me,” she said. “I was just trying to swat it and then like an angel descending I see [co-captain Lauren McAuliffe] come...
...just trying to swat it and then, like an angel descending, I see [McAuliffe] coming and put it in,” said Corriero...