Word: angells
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the Miguel brothers, Angel and Sebastian, were at the height of their prestige, Sota scrapped his way into the pro ranks after learning the game as a caddie. In 1963, he won the Spanish Open and the same year teamed up with Sebastian to come within three strokes of winning the World Cup. Only a blitz by Nicklaus, who was paired with Arnold Palmer, staved off an American loss in the fog-ridden final at Paris...
...Bishop of London asked his congregation to "kill Germans, to kill them, not for the sake of killing, but to save the world, to kill the good as well as the bad, to kill." The dark side of religious conviction can be a violent intractability, an avenging angel's note of retribution. As Martin Luther wrote, "He who will not hear God's word when it is spoken with kindness must listen to the headsman when he comes with his ax." Religion can provide a warmth of certitude and belonging. When its energy is turned outward...
...crannies are embellished by innumerable carvings, tapestries and decorative windows, but more remain to be installed. Outside, the final phase is the erection of twin 234-ft. towers on the west end, meant to complement the central Gloria in Excelsis Tower, completed in 1964 and bedecked with 396 angel heads. If all goes well, the entire structure will be finished ahead of schedule...
...display his characteristic talent for getting a maximum of feeling and perception from a minimum of words. At a time when books about women as victims appear with numbing regularity, Double Honeymoon seems a skillful unpretentious throwback to the tradition of woman as seducer - a kind of Blue Angel with button-down wings...
...reflections on projects past and to come. They appear to be: a sketch for the legs of Duke Giuliano, a risen Christ striding forward from a wall by the staircase, a figure of Zacharias writing the name of John the Baptist on a tablet at the prompting of an angel, a memory of the Laocoon-the great Hellenistic figure group that had so impressed Michelangelo when he saw it, newly dug up from a vineyard, in Rome. Though a few of the sketches may be by Michelangelo's assistants, the authenticity of most of them was accepted by nearly...