Word: gabrielic
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...portrayal as ethereal glamor queens looking pleasantly ineffectual. Though there are no masculine or feminine angels . . . (there can be distinction of sexes only where there are bodies), yet it is not correct to portray angels as women. God has revealed the angels to us in the masculine: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. By their nature the angels are next to God. They are powerful beings. The German poet Rilke says, 'Their presence is the first degree of the terrible.' " Furthermore, great artists of the past represented angels as "unmistakably masculine and sometimes even a little muscular...
...molds were on exhibition. Considering that they were meant to be seen atop a high perch, the figures were remarkably graceful close up. Almost all were strictly realistic, but they had many touches of humor or pride. One was a soaring steed with flying mane, another a chubby Gabriel blowing a horn...
...small stone building that contains the Black Stone, said to have been given by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham...
...JACK E. SHERWOOD San Gabriel, Calif...
...Stars. From the oldtime start, the music came gradually up to date. Things really began to hum when Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie took the stage with his quintet. Looking bemused and gesturing wildly, he set his cocked trumpet* to his lips and played Gabriel-like tones that sent chills up the listeners' spines. "See, that's a square bend," he explained, pointing to the upswept angle. "Well, I get a sort of square note out of there. When you say 'Pow-w-w,' it comes out like a pounding-like a pounding of bricks...