ethereality
Example Sentences
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It’s a well-preserved painting with that strange cocktail of precision and ethereality that makes Botticelli so captivating.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2020
But most of the vaulted lobby will be clad in smooth white plaster, maximizing its lightness and ethereality and creating the sense of entering a cloud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2020
These laws feel like a way of embracing the malleability and ethereality of fiction, even as the natural-science framing evokes the world of fact.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2019
They somehow actualized Horatiu Radulescu’s “Before the Universe Was Born,” its score a heady mixture of strange icons and mystical texts, as fairy-dust ethereality and squelching harshness, slippery shivers of sound.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2018
There was, besides, an elusiveness and an ethereality about him—as Carlyle expressed it—“a fine tricksy medium between the poet and the wit, half a sylph and half an Ariel ... a fairy fluctuating bark.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
