uncelestial

Example Sentences

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But any hopes Young has to make the city more heavenly may depend on his ability to heal some decidedly uncelestial bitterness sowed in his campaign's final days.

From Time Magazine Archive

Man walks, then, not only in a vain show, but wrapped in an uncelestial aureole of his own material exhalations.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

Although perhaps no different than the jealous remarks of Hera to Zeus, Hilda's acrimonious tone seemed boringly uncelestial.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

And then, the big star of stars being once hers, she had, not in the lover kind alone, but in all uncelestial kinds, whole nebulae and milky-ways of small stars.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas

What enabled him to see it so clearly was his familiarity with the ways of men and the uncelestial politics of Florence.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred