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

I had seen the production before, so I knew how its wedding scene usually went, all ethereality and dreamy romance.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2017

Perhaps there was something cold and shadowy in the ethereality of her loveliness, a want of sympathy with man's more earthly, passionate nature.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee