ethereality

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Our most prestigious poets often seem specifically selected to bring out the reality in poetry's ethereality, from the earthily intimate Heaney to the bracingly pedestrian Motion.

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  1. The quality or condition of being ethereal; incorporeity; spirituality. The ghost, originally conceived as quite substantial, fades into ethereality. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., § 115. In the Tonga islands, the future life was a privilege of caste; for while the chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu, the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died with their bodies. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 19.

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  • After the airiness of VICTORIALAND, BLUE BELL KNOLL, the Cocteau Twins 'fifth album, returns them to the swirling ethereality of earlier collections. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • Which, to return to my original point, has to do in Gallas's case with ethereality. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • The Austin American Statesman noted: "The key is the voice of bassist Carol Young, which approaches the vast ethereality of Patty Griffin on the breathtaking opener ... the lightning quick communications between mandolinist Kym Warner and fiddler Eamon McLoughlin, which established The Greencards as a band to watch a couple of years ago, come in clearer on new instrumentals 'Marty's Kitchen' and the stunning closer 'The House on Vine Street'." —  Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
  • Speech's near-eight-minute centerpiece, "Just Once," scaled and descended symphonic heights with the dreamlike wonder of angels on Jacob's Ladder, introducing Stith as a songsmith with hooks laid strangely, securely in ethereality. stays likewise fastened. —  Paste Magazine
  • Yet what makes this more than an advertising gimmick is the contrast between the disorienting ethereality of the images and the Platonic purity of the cube. —  Alanat News
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