cherub

Admit it, if the girl wasn't a cute, white cherub no-one would care.

Have to wonder who thought a game about a cherub named "bob" would sell like crazy.

We aren't all mobsters and we don't all have giant busts of the Pope and cherubs in our houses. Some of us are just computer scientists who like basil.

All those cherubs painted on walls probably have real faces. These days, I like to think that my boy was simply let into the big secret a little early.

Little "moonflower cherub" doesn't do well at school. It's because she's too delicate, fragile and artistic for math.

The animated Elizabeth Holmes cherubs have a real 90s internet feel to them. Totally the stuff of nightmares too.

Sometimes it happens with other languages, like the use of Hebrew plural rules for cherub/cherubim, but there's the best approximation.

Before those underpants were painted on, the bare bums of Michaelangelo's cherubs were clearly going to cause the collapse of European civilisation. David's dick is an ongoing threat to our way of life today.

All those gold filigrees and cherubs of a Baroque opera house don't compare to the elegant lines of a Gothic cathedral and these three books aren't a lean story. Anathem - I have to read again to decide if it's simply too long or if there is a point.

Wealthier adults became smitten with images of cute white kids and chubby-cheeked cherubs. Black children, meanwhile, were depicted in ads and pop culture as wild, innately criminal, and precociously sexual.

That's not to say there's not some local hidden variable, or a cherub that knocks the atom about to cause it to decay. It just says that nobody has been able to provide such a theory which does better than the "radioactive decay is truly random" theory does.

That passage is describing a celestial cherub, not a terrestrial abomination

I do not find it 'beautiful' in the sense that an old Venetian painting of a cherub is beautiful, I simply find the deliberate ugliness pleasing to the eye. I do not find his work shocking and I do not see why I should care about the level of technical skill that went into it.

Regarding the Virgin Killer cover, it appears to be a simple nude - no worse than paintings or sculptures of cherubs, though certainly contentious in our panic-driven culture.

Obviously pornography of young children could be identified by most people 99% of the time, the 1% being bizarre situations like mistaking a collection of cherub images for child pornography. But what about when the 'child' looks like a junior or senior teenager and so it's ambiguous as to weather they're of legal age or not?

Writers assume that if they write something truly incredible that cherubs will descend from the heavens and magically lift their book into the hands of the slobbering masses without any effort on the author's part. This, of course, is a fantasy, and publishers provide the incredibly important marketing muscle to promote a great book to an already media-saturated public.

Many English dictionaries accept cherubim as a plural of cherub, seraphim as a plural of seraph, aquaria as a plural of aquarium, criteria as a plural of criterion, phenomena as a plural of phenomenon, referenda as a plural of referendum, fora as a plural of forum, etc. Now, maybe this approach only applies to languages which English-speakers have traditionally considered as culturally prestigious or authoritative.