empyrean

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The Virgin is opening her arms, about to begin her rise through this nebulous, spiraling vortex toward heaven’s golden, empyrean light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

No, this is the summit, the last line on the last page, the empyrean heights to which those dozen-and-a-half interviews have led.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2020

Still, there was no prohibition, earthly or empyrean, on laymen entering the ranks, and, here and there, they did.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2018

With that moment, we’ve stepped with Mr. Gyllenhaal through the doorway of one man’s vision and into the empyrean summoned by his character, the 19th-century French painter Georges Seurat.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2016

They say he intends to remake the Austrian town of Linz into an empyrean city, the cultural capital of the world.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr