ethereally

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The pastries are ethereally flaky and buttery, the cinnamon roll strikes that difficult balance where the middle is fully baked but the edges aren’t overdone, and is slathered with heavenly cream cheese frosting.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023

Food writer Allison Robicelli uses it in her angel food cake recipe “that’s ethereally fluffy, no folding or futzing required,” she wrote.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

Two new “Reverence Paintings,” in which veils of gold flecks float ethereally over a white pointillist ground, were ready to be packed up for the forthcoming Gagosian show.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022

The man in the mirror was an exquisite dandy: when Beardsley became a star in 1890s London, he started wearing suits in subtly contrasting shades of grey with yellow gloves over his ethereally thin figure.

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2020

How they had gotten there was beyond Zeitoun’s imagination, but they seemed ethereally content, luxuriating in their freedom.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers