Cupped wire hands hold a glowing eye-shaped paper lantern with a luminous sphere at its centre.

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Adele Corners

He has the eyes of an angel.

— Kalifornia  ·  1993

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes a man's eyes as angelic, evoking beauty, gentleness or innocence. Taken by itself, the line reads as an admiring remark about his appearance, with the striking comparison placing all the emphasis on how his gaze looks.

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