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ethereal
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  • This is a time for weaving the ethereal into being, of spinning the strands of space and time to bring forth Creation.  (source)
    ethereal = things so delicate and insubstantial that they don't seem of this world
  • I'm drifting. Sleeping? A parade of faces floats behind my closed eyes. An ethereal Robyn grins ... distorting into a vampirelike apparition.  (source)
    ethereal = characterized by an air-like insubstantiality
  • She had posed with her eyebrows arched and her lips pursed a little, with a very ethereal, faraway look on her face.  (source)
    ethereal = in another world
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  • That the sun had gone black, leaving the ethereal queen the only source of light in the galaxy.†  (source)
  • She exchanged a few words with them and then continued toward Stem and her children, floating ethereally through a group of teenage boys tossing a football at the water's edge.†  (source)
  • Jolene had never before been alone with Nancy's "strange" mother, but despite discussions she had heard, she felt much at ease, for Mrs. Clutter, though unrelaxed herself, had a relaxing quality, as is generally true of defenseless persons who present no threat; even in Jolene, a very childlike child, Mrs. Clutter's heart-shaped, missionary's face, her look of helpless, homespun ethereality aroused protective compassion.†  (source)
  • But tonight, under a full moon, it seemed flooded in an ethereal blue.†  (source)
  • The dome of Mansart floated ethereally above the budding trees and the long grey front of the building: drawing up into itself all the rays of afternoon light, it hung there like the visible symbol of the race's glory.†  (source)
  • I would not see the carpet, which is white, or the sprigged curtains and skirted dressing table with its silver-backed brush and mirror set; only the canopy, which manages to suggest at one and the same time, by the gauziness of its fabric and its heavy downward curve, both ethereality and matter.†  (source)
  • An Augur waits outside—a woman this time—small and ethereal.†  (source)
  • He felt strangely lethargic, ethereally content.†  (source)
  • They were creatures of wild and varying colours, ethereal and beautiful.†  (source)
  • It floats ethereally around the cords and stinger.†  (source)
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