paradisal

What race this is is hard to know, since the Cantos draws positive or "paradisal" insights from so many traditions, including the Chinese, Japanese, African, Hebraic, and Egyptian.

Aoi! Kearns, George 1976

But all at once I began to catch my breath and gasp The sea-smells had become laden with a kind of paradisal perfume, ineffably sweet, but difficult to breathe all of a sudden.

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

He may have been utterly incapable of expressing in conceptual form his paradisal experience.

C.S. Lewis on Paradisal Man 2010

"She manages to depict with vivid immediacy Jamaica's terrors and seductions, portraying a society in which poverty is endemic, and a sense of menace exists in a setting of paradisal beauty."

The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson: Book summary 2010

A garden is as contradictory as life itself and as essential, he argues in this passionate piece of advocacy: a refuge and a burden, a place of repose and of labor, paradisal and perilous.

Cover to Cover 2009

Africa, a place of spectacular beauty, continues to conjure up extreme images: of a paradisal Eden and of a conflict-ridden, disease-afflicted "dark continent".

Look at how Africa is changing | Adekeye Adebajo 2011

A fish-shaped island of roller-coaster green hills and paradisal beaches lapped by aquamarine waters, Elba lies an hour from Tuscany and does indeed belong to Italy.

Downsizing From an Empire to an Island Lennox Morrison 2011

A garden is as contradictory as life itself and as essential, he argues in this passionate piece of advocacy: a refuge and a burden, a place of repose and of labor, paradisal and perilous.

Cover to Cover 2009

With my arm around her I felt for the first time the swell of a breast; even if it was only the side of a breast, the softness was paradisal.

Apology from a dirty old man 2008

With my arm around her I felt for the first time the swell of a breast; even if it was only the side of a breast, the softness was paradisal.

Lance Mannion: 2008