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José Rivera’s “Marisol” came out around the same time as Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” and both plays, vibrating with millennial anxieties, carry the earthly battle for human survival up to the heavens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Good morning, my people. I regret to inform you of the departure of my son Prichard from this earthly world," Richard Colon wrote on Facebook.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Vimalakirti leans over the edge of his canopied bed with an impatient stare, as he argues that it is possible to enjoy earthly life while still abiding by Buddhist nonattachment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

It may feel like a medical miracle, but there’s a more earthly explanation.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

But the urgency of the competition with the Soviets created pressure to adopt the quickest, surest way into space, even if it was a little crude, or sacrificed long-term spacefaring viability for short-term earthly victory.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Yet the shy, hesitating compassion that thus had birth in me was far from being able to defeat the earlier, earthlier emotion.

From Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I thought, too, that she only lingered here, till my earthlier soul should be purified for heaven.

From Other Tales and Sketches (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Her heart exulted, while it trembled, at his honorable love—so pure and lofty that it would accept nothing less than perfection nor miserably make itself contented with an earthlier nature than he had dreamed of.

From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

From theology he turned to purely human and materialist philosophy; from an ideal of pure love to earthlier defilements.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Her heart exulted, while it trembled, at his honorable love,—so pure and lofty that it would accept nothing less than perfection nor miserably make itself contented with an earthlier nature than he had dreamed of.

From Stories of Mystery by Rossiter Johnson

But the moon still revolveth around all that is earthly: so revolveth also the prince around what is earthliest of all—that, however, is the gold of the shopman.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche