In the boy's mind, images of Sophie rose, and he saw again the transformation of her face from cherubic innocence to a grotesque mask, disease-wracked, splotchy, spotted with sores.

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was a popular star of early silent comedies, an obese 21 stones but agile, with an air of cherubic innocence.

The citizen sergeant was trying to project a degree of cherubic innocence which fit poorly with his dark-skinned, battered, altogether piratical-looking face.

Also, her expression was an exaggeration -just a faint, carefully judged exaggeration -of the cherubic innocence she radiated all the time.

She glanced at John Thomas and winked, then set her face in cherubic innocence.

I wore a look of cherubic innocence.

He and Pitt were leaving for a project in the Antarctic," Zavala replied with cherubic innocence.

She looked with new eyes at the benign cleric, saw him regarding her with an expression of cherubic innocence.

Now her short brown hair framed a face that had lost its cherubic innocence; it was an adult's face full of character and experience.

While Mr. Holmes vacillates fluidly between cherubic innocence and veiled menace, this is Ms. Blunt's movie.