1.   And has anyone ever explained, with more authority, what can be right with the Hollywood establishment on the rare occasions when it heeds its better angels?

2.   A Washington relative of Barbara Fultz saw an exhibition of angels in Baltimore and heard there were even better angels at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

3.   Brennan spoke to our better angels.

4.   He said he summoned his better angels and assembled a plan to correct things.

5.   In assessing the record, the biggest mystery is the governor himself, a man whose better angels seemed forever to be warring with his darker side.

6.   No one appeals so eloquently to the better angels of human nature.

7.   Rather than exhorting through noble example and eloquence the better angels of our nature, he demonizes that which he loathes with acid-laced maledictions.

8.   The better angels of his nature fight with his storied dark side.

9.   They want somebody to appeal to our better angels, not our darker impulses.