empyreal

ADJECTIVE
  1. inspiring awe
    well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity
    empyrean aplomb
    the sublime beauty of the night
  2. of or relating to the sky or heavens
    the empyrean sphere
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How To Use empyreal In A Sentence

  • well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity
  • •The business of empyreal colonialism that exploits people Heart of Darkness And America's Gloomy History
  • Henceforth he is to fight his way through the storms of life and passion -- to pass onward and upward and at last to rise to 'higher spheres'; and amidst the fierce and insidious assaults of flesh and devil we shall see that he looks for strength and guidance to this Spirit that appeared to him in the blinding vision of living empyreal flame. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
  • Yet according to Mormon doctrine, families are awarded with empyreal togetherness only if every member ‘behaves.’
  • And then it was gone: giant, empyreal prisoner, and the light that had framed them, leaving behind only the veldt and the scandalized night. Carnivores of Light and Darkness
  • Behind him, he knew, the empyreal capital endured, the snowy grounds around it merely accentuating its transcendental, yet solitary, existence.
  • Heavens and breathed empyreal air, her tempering; in like manner he requests her to lead him down to his native element lest he should meet with a fate similar to what befell Bellerophon. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • In this remarkable book he tells of his discovery of oxygen -- "empyreal" or "fire-air," as he calls it -- which he seems to have made independently and without ever having heard of the previous discovery by Priestley. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
  • With a soft, empyreal hiss, it saw itself sucked up by the thorns, until only a last wisp of noxious vapor remained to show where it had once writhed. Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • Within that empyreal realm, the new Senior Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development will occupy a ‘singular and permanent position,’ dictates the task force.
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