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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

When the slumming Ponce, who lives somewhere else and who picked up a semblance of education, tries to explain that all earthly agriculture is reliant on bees, he gets blowback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

Of all earthly pleasures, Laila’s favorite was lying next to Aziza, her baby’s face so close that she could watch her big pupils dilate and shrink.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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

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

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 Short-Stories by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

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

Compassion, divine compassion, mastered the earthlier emotion of terror in the great heart of the woman who loved him.

From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

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