(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.
(a.) Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.
(adv.) In a manner resembling that of heaven.
(adv.) By the influence or agency of heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
(2) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
(3) Oh, heavens no, it would be too depressing, and it was East German territory anyway.
(4) The best charm shows water next to Heaven and then items representing qualities of Air, Earth and Water.
(5) I knew I could get 58 mid and I knew that, if the heavens were on my side, I could get a 58 low but to be the first person under 58 ...
(6) The facial appearance is similar to a Renaissance cherub with its gaze toward heaven.
(7) "All the talk of heaven and hell and redemption helped to start people talking," says Tharcisse.
(8) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
(9) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
(10) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
(11) One official wrote: "An article like this would be a heaven-sent opportunity to those who wish to get maximum publicity out of this incident to argue that the coroner was biased and for this reason the inquest was unsound."
(12) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(13) He said two pieces of evidence were crucial in persuading the jury that Samsung had intentionally copied elements of Apple's iPhone functionality: minutes of a meeting in South Korea with Google, which had warned senior Samsung executives to "pull back" from their tablet designs because they were too close to Apple's; and internal emails from Samsung executives which said that the difference between the iPhone and Samsung's smartphones was "heaven and earth", and that the two needed to be moved closer.
(14) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
(15) So while Labrinth, Heaven 17, The Proclaimers and Billy Bragg are playing on stage, kids will probably be more interested in the freesports park, Mr Tumble, the new Dance Space, junior football tournament, Insect Circus and kids' comedy club, to name but a few of the dozens of attractions.
(16) But while the public is convinced it doesn’t go far enough, the major parties have actually resisted most calls for greater scrutiny – independent oversight or, heaven forbid, a federal version of Icac .
(17) She will be looking down now from the heaven she undoubtedly believed in, and smiling.
(18) The village primary school and the heavens were going to open at the same time – and both were going to be equally welcome.
(19) While others decried his work, he wrote that his paintings “move and mingle among the pale stars, and rise up into the brightness of the illimitable heaven, whose soft, and blue eye gazes down into the deep waters of the sea for ever”.
(20) He added: “James Wharton is an ambitious politician – but heaven help him if he ever has to deal with a truly hostile press.
Infernal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.
(a.) Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.
(n.) An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the book, Trierweiler describes infidelity as “an infernal cycle”.
(2) It would be easy to imagine that in the years since Wood finally hurled that infernal ring into Mount Doom, he has still been burdened by it, dragging himself around an indifferent movie industry where nobody can see him as anything other than the hairy-footed little hero of a colossally successful movie trilogy.
(3) Whether ostensibly conservative, like the Gothic architect Augustus Welsby Pugin, or Marxist, like William Morris, opinion formers in the second half of the 19th century agreed that industry had deformed the UK, that its cities and its architecture were horrifying, that its factories were infernal, and that it should be replaced with a return to older, preferably medieval, certainties.
(4) Out of the stadium's sluices flowed hordes of the new classes created by the industrial revolution: workers in overalls, bosses in top hats, arriving to dismantle the rural scene piece by piece, the meadows and the tilled fields making way for an array of vast chimneys emerging from the once fertile earth to reach the height of the stadium rim, their infernal belching smoke replacing the homely cottage hearth and ushering in a world of steam engines and spinning jennys.
(5) Do you give in and buy one of those infernal plastic water bottles?
(6) There may come a point – quite soon, frankly – when you wonder why you're on this infernal treadmill.
(7) Tony Blair 's fans on the right will be disappointed that all he can say about the infernal Sixties is that they were 'a decade of personal liberation' and will be affronted that he attributes to Mrs Thatcher carrying Sixties' individualism into the economic sphere.
(8) Visceral video footage that he shot on the day of his own death shows an infernal world of flaming tyres and random firing of automatic weapons.
(9) By this point I hadn't slept for three days, had had quite enough of doing a sea lion impression balancing on that infernal ball, and caved in.
(10) If fans had an interest in the game they would not be blowing that infernal machine every infernal minute.
(11) After compiling an extraordinarily brave double century against India in the tied Test at Chennai in 1985, Australian batsman Dean Jones described what it was like to bat in infernal conditions: “When you’re urinating in your pants and vomiting 15 times, you’ve got massive problems.” When finally dismissed for 210, Jones was taken to hospital on a saline drip.
(12) Those who survived that infernal night of interminable gunfire when they yelled: “Don’t shoot, we’re students.
(13) Again, these are the occasions when I do not invite interaction with my fellow humans, and I must say that in all the years I’ve been wandering these woods, I have never seen anyone else (if you except winter, deep snow, and the blur and roar of the infernal snowmobiles).
(14) The Call's screenplay is by Richard D'Ovidio and feels very much like a fourth instalment in Larry Cohen's "phone trilogy", three infernally propulsive high-concept thrillers based around phones and confinement: Phone Booth, Cellular and Messages Deleted.
(15) Vilified by Seleção legends and sections of the media, he stuck to a 4-4-2 plan in which a clogged midfield, anchored by Dunga and Mauro Silva, exploited the pace and skills of an attacking partnership formed by the slick Bebeto and the infernal Romario.
(16) He recommends throughout All That Is Solid Melts Into Air that the Faust legend is read dialectically, as a story about the need to have recourse to the "dark side", to the infernal arts of industrialisation and technology.
(17) Eventually by greater strength of muscle or by some infernal juggle, the difficulty appears to be overcome, and the shoulders and trunk of a goodly child are delivered.
(18) purulence, was regarded as normal and pus was called "Pus bonum and laudabile", which was thought to be the supposition for wound-healing and was the reason for the infernal stench which one could smell.
(19) Is it just me who is imagining an infernal alliance of Polish plumbers tooled up with spanners and Wahhabist militants waving ancestral scimitars as they secure the cheese counter at the local Morrison’s with their war traditional cry “Aiee!
(20) In a surprisingly candid moment, he complains to a friend of life's "infernal" monotony.