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But, at least in his paintings, Soutine never sought to escape earthliness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

We try to turn away from our earthliness, but our prayers embody our appetites.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2014

Doll of course denies his earthliness, swears it is carnal knowledge of a fiend she has, and convicts herself of her witchcraft.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her love was veiled, as it were, in a most delicate, most diaphanous mist, which took from it all earthliness, and left it intangible, magical as some gift from fairyland.

From The Making of a Soul by Rhodes, Kathlyn

Divine love bowered him in roses, and his pious resignation by its whiteness divested him of every trace of earthliness.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de