Recording Angel

British  

noun

1. an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts

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Example Sentences

In the recording, Ángel Daniel Hernández says he has been training his German Shepherd Rex since he adopted him five years ago.

From BBC

The creator of Lena, by story’s end, always shows us every bruise, every betrayal, a relentless recording angel.

From Washington Post

My favorites overlapped my fascinations: Derek Pell’s “Assassination Rhapsody,” an absurdist deconstruction of the Warren Report; and “Behold Metatron, The Recording Angel,” by Sol Yurick, best known for his novel “The Warriors,” which portrayed a phantasmagorical New York beset by cultish gangs.

From Los Angeles Times

God saw the look that she turned on me as she spoke, and if there be indeed a Recording Angel that look is noted to her everlasting honour.

From Literature

A minor detail, perhaps, but just the sort that Macdonald, “the recording angel of the common soldier,” sought to get right in her books so that those whose stories she preserved would be remembered at the going down of the sun and in the morning.

From Washington Post