sublunary

Example Sentences

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“Among other things, many ignored the reality that millions of African Americans were quite pleased with the decidedly sublunary consolations of equal protection under the law.”

From Washington Post

He is scrupulously genial and polite, and happy to talk about theories of spacetime, but extremely reluctant to say anything on the record about the book’s more sublunary themes and ideas.

From The Guardian

But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.

From New York Times

For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences.

From Literature

And worse, they assume their buildings will inject some germ of their utopian vision into the boring, sublunary setting of their work, and thus transform everything around it.

From Washington Post