Example Sentences

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“Usually, shows of his work focus on his ethereality, like the ‘Monochromes’” — Klein’s single-color canvases — “but his show is anchored in the materiality and the tangible.”

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

It’s a well-preserved painting with that strange cocktail of precision and ethereality that makes Botticelli so captivating.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2020

But most of the vaulted lobby will be clad in smooth white plaster, maximizing its lightness and ethereality and creating the sense of entering a cloud.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2020

These laws feel like a way of embracing the malleability and ethereality of fiction, even as the natural-science framing evokes the world of fact.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2019

Now and then she glided through slanting rays of soft, white light cast from upper windows, and they seemed to derive ethereality from her….

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis