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The distances, and the violently unheavenly conditions in “the heavens,” tell us that our devices will roam our immediate cosmic neighborhood, but in spite of Apollo 11’s still-dazzling achievement, we are not really going anywhere.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2019

Biggest Bomb: Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, which cost 36 million but was pulled back from distribution after some unheavenly reviews.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a writer Bodenheim is of the same school as unheavenly literary twin Ben Hecht, but nearer the foot of the class.

From Time Magazine Archive

"All the design of Christian redemption," says Law, "is to remove everything that is unheavenly, gross, dark, wrathful, and disordered from every part of this fallen world."

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph

O gentle man, the common man is yet thy brother, and thy gentleness should make him great, infecting him with thy humility, not rousing in him the echo of a vile unheavenly scorn.

From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George