empyrean
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The Virgin is opening her arms, about to begin her rise through this nebulous, spiraling vortex toward heaven’s golden, empyrean light.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
No, this is the summit, the last line on the last page, the empyrean heights to which those dozen-and-a-half interviews have led.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2020
Charlie Wilson’s empyrean soul on “No Mistakes” solidifies his claim to having the best late-career run since Philip Roth.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2018
The blushing beauty of the Larghetto was haunted by Barenboim’s light keyboard touch and empyrean mood: he could have been summoning ghosts.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 3, 2017
They say he intends to remake the Austrian town of Linz into an empyrean city, the cultural capital of the world.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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