What is "angelic"

Usage examples of "angelic".

New Agey, like heaven without the harps and angelic choirs and pink clouds and alabaster pillars, or whatever.

Jewish Apocalyptists had already attributed pre-existence to the expected Messiah, as to other precious things in the Old Testament history and worship, and, without any thought of denying his human nature, placed him as already existing before his appearing in a series of angelic beings.

They had small areolae, of a bewitching dark coral which seemed most intense, and set in the centers of those sweetly angelic haloes appeared two dainty little pink buds, crinkly and twitching with every breath, sweet tidbits, morsels of delight for the lips and the tongue of an appreciative connoisseur such as I prided myself on being.

The cruel incongruity of that stab of angelic joy in the midst of the pain of dying is the emotional nexus linking the autobiographical vignette to the nightmarish fantasy.

In this extremity the Abbe Dutheil took upon himself to propose to the bishop a last resource, the adoption of which caused the introduction into this judicial drama of a remarkable personage, who serves as a bond between all the figures brought upon the scene of it, and who, by ways familiar to Providence, was destined to lead Madame Graslin along a path where her virtues were to shine with greater brilliancy as a noble benefactress and an angelic Christian woman.

He has the animal side as well as the angelic side, and the aim of an educator is to so train human souls that their angelic aspect may overcome their animal side.

Though I saw how pure and angelic she was, I had the cruelty to go away, leaving her to her distress.

The sunshine on the hills, the starlight on the sea, -- Unto angelic Earth, whereof the lives of those Who love and dream great dreams and deeply feel may be The elemental cells and nervules that compose Its divine consciousness and joy and harmony.

To his dismay, however, when the angelic, virginal Evelyn Marie Ruddick murmured his name, his pulse stirred.

With each scintillating whimper from the back of her throat, each angelic flutter of her kiss, each delicious tremble of her body against his hands, he was seduced himself.

She was young, recently married, fresh and unhackneyed in society, and my imagination decked her out with everything that was pure, lovely, innocent, and angelic in womanhood.

But infused knowledge is attributed to the soul, on account of a light infused from on high, and this manner of knowing is proportioned to the angelic nature.

His expression was angelic and open, without a trace of cultivated politesse or pretense.

Lynx queried, eager to keep her talking, to do anything to keep her angelic presence in the room.

Emmaline had also shrunk her angelic proportions so that she resembled a kindly faced, stoutish woman of average height.