Not so the Virgins of the old Italians; for they look so divinely ethereal that they seem uplifted by their own spirituality: not even the air-borne clouds are needed to sustain them.

yet so remote, her impossibly ethereal standards, her light words that so often abashed a man for no reasonable cause.

The peculiarly ethereal character of the vast bands of thin vapors made visible by the slant rays of the sun, and illuminated with tints which are exquisitely pure and prismatic, was rendered with surprising success.

A man's loftiest and most ideal notions must be of a singularly ethereal and, shall we not say, senseless kind, if he can never see how to take a single step that may tend in the slightest degree towards making them more real.

Her face coloured like a pale spring blossom, looked strangely ethereal above her brocade jacket.

espiritual, spiritual; spiritualized; unworldly; ethereal.