unearthliness
Example Sentences
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Law creates a hybrid of humanity and unearthliness that recalls David Bowie as Thomas Newton.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2016
The description of the statue’s unearthliness, its dignity and severity, its almost disturbingly powerful aura, is exquisite in a novel that otherwise seems to shun beauty or not to know it at all.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2015
Her unearthliness serves Swinton particularly well in this role, since the brittle, sardonic Eva is the opposite of an earth mother.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2011
In the 19th century, it is the unearthliness of volcanoes that mesmerises artists.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2010
There was something more than uncommonly queer about this stranger, an unearthliness of which he was confusedly perceptive, but she was not without a curious kind of prettiness, and her pale gold hair was beautiful.
From The Flirt by Tarkington, Booth
