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ethereal

Something that is heavenly, unearthly, of the ether (air). The ballerina had an ethereal aura.

ethereal

(= aeriform, aerial, airy) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away — Thomas Carlyle aerial fancies an airy apparition physical rather than ethereal forms of or containing or dissolved in ether ethereal solution (= gossamer) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy this smallest and most ethereal of birds gossamer shading through his playing (= celestial, supernal) of heaven or the spirit celestial peace ethereal melodies the supernal happiness of a quiet death

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I'm not as ethereal as all that.
But I'm not sure I like being so ethereal.
It's as if some ethereal wave skimming over surfaces soaked up their visible emanations to shape them and give them form and then spread them like a perfume, like an echo of themselves, like some imperceptible dust, over every surrounding surface.
You've constructed a brief out of thin air like Mozart's music: light, ethereal.and brittle.
One day. so radiant and ethereal. you suddenly appeared to me.
Crazy, ethereal, subtle.
Being in the ethereal plane, of course, I was in a position to observe closely.
Soft focus, ethereal music, the odd seagull. Ba-caw. Ba-caw.
Massive snowfalls compress glacial ice so dense in some places only a single color of the spectrum is reflected. an ethereal blue. chilling and strangely beautiful.
And her lighting has this ethereal quality to it.
Oh, the ethereal plains were chaotic with battle. Angel against angel.
No, more of an instruction book on how to reach this ethereal plane of existence.
Surely, as an archangel, you are a creature of light, ethereal and pure.
The ethereal.
Such poise, such ethereal beauty.
You treat Fred a certain way. because Fred is ethereal and light. and he's a past master at dance, you know.
She's ethereal!
No. The ethereal.
Earthy yet. ethereal.
Ethereal time-traveling demon..
You ethereal types with your big, swinging omniscience.
Style, grace, ethereal beauty.
Was it their ethereal beauty, their angelic imperturbability, in their awareness of the uselessness of all gestures in the face of eternity?
They wove webs around the sleepers faces, their feet, their hands. Then hurried back to their hiding-place, waiting for one of their ethereal threads to quiver to start it all over again.
By thinking. I don't just mean some mental, ethereal thing. but being with people. being with you is part of the thinking.
The ethereal, the impalpable, the ghostly.
Ethereal time-traveling demon.. You're the screwball that brought Holtz back.
The human heart is an ethereal web of contradicting emotions. impossible to decipher in all its complexity.
Note in particular the luminosity of the skin tones, giving the young woman an almost. ethereal quality.
Your voice is rich as molasses, and your skin glows with an ethereal. glow.
I thought that a person who makes such amazing and ethereal pictures must be like that himself because the artist is reflected in his work.
He might talk to someone from a higher ethereal plane.
Finally, as in all good tales, Larry is saved by the love of an ethereal young woman.
The only reason you think I am ethereal is because all we do is have sex, flirt and have sex.

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It becomes an ethereal concept devoid of much real economic content.
And Lincoln Chaffee, a former governor of Rhode Island, is an ethereal mystery.
But the smart money hardly ever talks in such ethereal terms.

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