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
He is especially good at describing Catherine’s ascent into the social media empyrean.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023
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
For the gatekeepers of heaven were to review him in state, that they might make their decision: Would this man be a credit to the empyrean?
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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