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
The arrival is at empyrean, announced by a hidden, mystic Los Angeles Master Chorale.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022
The blushing beauty of the Larghetto was haunted by Barenboim’s light keyboard touch and empyrean mood: he could have been summoning ghosts.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 3, 2017
St. John’s is his seventh coaching stop, and to come here, where success and fan interest have been fleeting, he needed to leave the empyrean basketball environment in Lexington, Ky., which was no easy decision.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2015
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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