Example Sentences

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There’s a sun-soaked, bohemian ethereality to that version of the decade, built both by retro revisionism and by the fact that a song like “Dreams” exists.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2020

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, this floating ethereality is precisely the quality which gives us most pleasure when we are spectators at the performance of a really fine ballet.

From A Book About the Theater by Matthews, Brander