cherubic

We laughed a lot: Richard’s cherubic smile, his costumes, his charms and puns.

A sharp but necessary pivot from scales and talons brings me to Star Wars’ most adorable animals: Ewoks, the sweet, cherubic creatures that populate the forest moon of Endor in “Return of the Jedi.”

Over time, the 18-year-old Northern Irishman with the cherubic face and limitless potential, who ticked off those first four major championships in a four-year span, has grown up.

Commentators said that the young pitcher, whose cherubic good looks caught Lee’s eye, was becoming a sensation in Japan.

And then it dawned on him: “The Feast of Bacchus,” by the 17th-century Dutch painter Philips Koninck, which depicts the Greek god of wine and revelry in a state of cherubic, half-naked bliss.