angel
Example Sentences
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Valentino's death comes just months after the passing of another Italian great, Giorgio Armani, and along with flowers left outside the Foundation was a note suggesting the pair would now be designing clothes for angels.
From Barron's
One hundred and sixty-five years ago, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the steps of the United States Capitol and appealed to our “better angels.”
From Salon
Laura Turner Igoe, a curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania and one of the volume’s contributors, writes that the Gospel-inspired angel “commemorates the bringing of clean water to New York City.”
I then couldn’t help but recall Shakespeare: “Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince. And angels sing thee to thy rest.”
Traditional Latin prayers sung by men have a heavy, chant-like ominousness; the two female angels who appear in the visions convey an urgent, slightly dissonant ecstasy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
