ADJECTIVE
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of heaven or the spirit
ethereal melodies
celestial peace
the supernal happiness of a quiet death -
being or coming from on high
interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men
How To Use supernal In A Sentence
- You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
- The exterior glass walls of this sculpture hall are coated with tiny white ceramic dots (called frits) that screen city views and suffuse a supernal glow heightened by filtered daylight that streams down from deeply inset skylights ” an effect equal to the lighting of Piano at his best ” made possible when Tschumi rotated the story above this middle level of the museum. Grading the New Acropolis
- For similar reasons, most people, especially most who believe in Heaven, also consider Heaven, or whatever, as a special kind of supernal real estate, as Owen Gingerich, author of the foreword to a recent English edition of Johannes Kepler's LaRouche's Latest
- These three constitute the Supernal Triad - those spheres which are wholly outside the realm of direct human experience for all but the most disciplined and ascetic individuals.
- Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. John W. Whitehead: Have a Very Merry Celluloid Christmas
- In the tiny chalets perched on the mountain ridges, folks literally dwell in cloudland, and enjoy a kind of supernal existence, having for near neighbours the eagles in their eyries and the fleet-footed chamois or izard. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
- the supernal happiness of a quiet death
- The second obvious element in Shelley's poetry is his love of beauty, not the common beauty of nature or humanity which Wordsworth celebrated, but a strange "supernal" beauty with no "earthly" quality or reality. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
- This created the abyss between the real world and the supernal world.
- Contrast Zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash.