ethereal
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That an Oscar-nominated director with a celebrated eye for the ethereal, strange world of girl-women living in beautiful boxes could make a film as workaday as this one is frustrating.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Directly in the center, a slender vertical window — part of the gallery’s architecture — illuminates the otherwise darkened room with a pillar of natural light, further contributing to the ethereal nature of the piece.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 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 queen’s blazing, glacier-blue eyes were as ethereal as her lovely face.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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