ethereal

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Directors Hammerling and Baghdadi don’t have a huge mystery on their hands, and the direction and choice of imagery and editing generate a sense of ethereal wonder and elusiveness, rather than suspense or high drama.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

The lyrics were eerie and ethereal: “Who can say where the road goes? Where the day flows? Only time”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

As Wenger wrote in 1990: "Akangbe, bodily and spiritually voluminous, creates works of an ethereal, sublimely weightless loftiness. His work is a primary eruption of genius."

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Levito was second in the free skate with an ethereal performance to the music of "Cinema Paradiso" that put her third overall on 224.45 points.

From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026

The prints we saw of Shelley and Byron were of ethereal young white men with flowing hair.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers