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

Mabel’s ethereality makes every training flight an agony for her keeper: “I feared the veering off … there was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning.”

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2015

Sublimate, as you will, the idea of our ethereality as intellectual beings; no sensible man can harbor a doubt, but that there is a vast deal of satisfaction in dining.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman