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  • adjective Archaic form of ethereal.

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Examples

  • I cannot help feeling that, with mathematics, the case for believing in some kind of etherial, eternal existence, at least for the more profound mathematical concepts, is a good deal stronger than in those other cases.

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

  • She has this strongly intangible vocal style -- it doesn't sound like anything you've encountered before yet utterly familiar and no not because you've seen Good Will Hunting, I kind of etherial Jewel Kilcher.

    'No. It's not a golfing term ...' 2004

  • Some examples follow below, from the quadrilingual Dutch work of the period, Moderne Kerken in Europe en America, which also includes some strange Central European and French monstrosities, not shown here -- though I admit a secret fondness for the etherial openness of Perret's Notre Dame du Raincy, just not all that exposed concrete.

    Some Examples of Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Church Architecture 2009

  • Without the title we would have no idea, and this would be seen by some as an almost etherial work of reverence.

    The Bleat. 2010

  • You seem to be arguing from an etherial view where MMOs are necessarily available in some Pure Form because they are simply a Good Thing.

    How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony 2010

  • In any case, now rid of my dangerous componentry but emitting an eerie yet soothingly etherial glow, I returned to Brooklyn and resolved to begin life anew.

    Hardcore Luxury: It Ain't Easy Being Douchey BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • You seem to be arguing from an etherial view where MMOs are necessarily available in some Pure Form because they are simply a Good Thing.

    How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony 2010

  • No sooner, that is, does "etherial glory" seem glancingly posited on the phonemic run as

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • If there's ever a scenario where I'm the hero, and maybe it should be her, sitting on her couch, smelling dog farts and trying to reconcile the past with etherial apologies, it's that one.

    Forgive me, father 2009

  • It is a feeling not uncommon amongst artists, that in their greatest works, they are revealing eternal truths which have some kind of prior etherial existence, while their lesser works might be more arbitrary ….

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

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