unearthliness

Example Sentences

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Law creates a hybrid of humanity and unearthliness that recalls David Bowie as Thomas Newton.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2016

The description of the statue’s unearthliness, its dignity and severity, its almost disturbingly powerful aura, is exquisite in a novel that otherwise seems to shun beauty or not to know it at all.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2015

Her unearthliness serves Swinton particularly well in this role, since the brittle, sardonic Eva is the opposite of an earth mother.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2011

In the 19th century, it is the unearthliness of volcanoes that mesmerises artists.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2010

With all its weird unearthliness, there is hardly another book in the whole range of human literature which is marked with such unswerving veracity as the "Divine Comedy."

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John