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- adjective Resembling the
sky or some aspect of it.
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Examples
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Then the boundless, spacelike, skylike, qualityless quality of pure awareness reveals itself to itself, and the imagined self falls away like a lifeless puppet with laughable puppet problems.
Dean Sluyter: Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF 2009
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These rainbows were placed side by side between trees in the skylike in any artist'scanvasalmost looking like animpossiblehappening of nature.
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These rainbows were placed side by side between trees in the skylike in any artist'scanvasalmost looking like animpossiblehappening of nature.
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The third quality of basic goodness is natural openness, the spaciousness of our skylike minds.
Archive 2009-08-01 William Harryman 2009
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But the whole charm and beauty of the play, the quality which raises it to the rank of its fellows by making it loveable as well as admirable, we find only in the "sweet, serene, skylike" sanctity and attraction of adorable old age, made more than ever near and dear to us in the incomparable figure of the old
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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"Frenzy" (2010) presents a characteristic entanglement of forms that resemble skeins of sheer fabric with others suggesting coral or monstrous insects or tendrils of alien plant life, all adrift within a tinted, skylike emptiness.
SFGate: Top News Stories Kenneth Baker 2010
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