Cherub

cherub



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[cher-uhb]

【宗】二品天使 (九級天使中的第二級, 掌管知識)



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–noun

1. a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.

2. Theology. a member of the second order of angels, often represented as a beautiful rosy-cheeked child with wings.

3. a beautiful or innocent person, esp. a child.

4. a person, esp. a child, with a sweet, chubby, innocent face. 





　

Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster want power, and Buster Keaton and Clark Gable want girls. Gary Cooper and James Stewart seek justice; John Wayne and Clint Eastwood seek revenge. Humphrey Bogart and George Clooney demand candor from a duplicitous world. Fred Astaire wants to dance. 



Woody Allen has an incorrigible desire to make a joke, and Jim Carrey longs to turn his face and body into rubber. But what does Jude Law want? He is too honorable to just draw on his lascivious-cherub good looks. 





　

All this might seem too diagrammatic and coy except for the presence of Béatrice Romand, whose Magali makes all ruses worthwhile. 



Her big [blur] of wiry hair [rests] lightly on her head; her face is both cherubic and weathered. 



Magali is a self-described peasant woman, but she's not earthy, or if she is, some blue sky got mixed in with the portrait. There's something [cloud-borne] about this woman; her encounters with both Gerald and Etienne, which take place during a wedding party for Isabelle's daughter, bring out the cuckoo in her. 





She's [re]living the throes of adolescent-style awkwardness. 



Between bouts, she looks out at the Rhone Valley in the far distance and sulks. She's not used to feeling love-struck, or lovelorn either, and her bewilderment only makes her more fetching. The joke in Autumn Tale is that it doesn't matter how old you are; 



the [entangle]ments of romance end up juvenilizing you. Rohmer, who is 79, has often worked out his moralizings with a younger cast of characters. Here, with an older set, he retains the youthful blush.





Sphinx Protean cornucopia Jovial Mercurial

Adonis 

Aphrodite Nemesis Juno hermaphrodite

Samaritan 

Innuendo



cad 

callow

cherub Nubile