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
This is the kind of thriller that invites you into a gilded empyrean that compels you and repels you in equal measure.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025
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
With that moment, we’ve stepped with Mr. Gyllenhaal through the doorway of one man’s vision and into the empyrean summoned by his character, the 19th-century French painter Georges Seurat.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2016
For the gatekeepers of heaven were to review him in state, that they might make their decision: Would this man be a credit to the empyrean?
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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