paradisaical

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When Queen Elizabeth’s yacht, Britannia, steamed to the Maldives’ main island, Male, in 1972, she was the first head of any state to visit the paradisaical speck of Britain’s Commonwealth.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2012

Quadruple the footprint, pad the seats, replace The Time Traveller's sodding Wife with a microwave, and it becomes the bibliophile's paradisaical starter home.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2010

From her apartment in "Jerusalem," one of the House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

But neither the climate nor the general "conditions" of the city can be called paradisaical.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

It seemed to her as though she, a pious and glad pilgrim, were making her way along paradisaical oases towards those distant scenes, there to find even more, the goal....

From Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel by Couperus, Louis