Heavenly place

Usage examples of empyrean.

He drove to a private airstrip just north of Boothbay Harbor in his old but perfectly maintained car, then gritted his teeth and slitted his eyes and held onto the steel lockbox with the Polaroid Sun 660 in it for dear fife as the Mad Hatter's Beechcraft plunged down the dirt runway like a rogue horse, rose into the air just as Pop was sure they were going to fall off the edge and be smashed to jelly on the rocks below, and flew away into the autumn empyrean.

It's as if they constantly have to prove themselves or prove that Empyreans aren't superior to random-gene humans.

Scott to be reveling in the role of savior, rescuing the Empyreans from their own misguided conceit.

Maybe they'd been trying to sound the alarm and wake up a generation of complacent Empyreans who'd come to believe so blindly in their ultimate superiority that they not only knew all the answers, but no longer even needed to hear the questions.

Not a single question had been directed their way, as if the Empyreans had deemed them unworthy of being addressed and unlikely to contribute anything useful to the debate, which the council members seemed content to conduct rather informally among themselves.

Well, to make a long story short, we managed to convince the Empyreans to allow our outpost.

On top of that, President March made it sound like the Empyreans had already made up their minds to boot the Federation off their world.

And I resent the implication that we Empyreans are incapable of conducting a proper search.

I think the Empyreans have a lot to offer the galaxy, and I know we have a lot to offer them.

But if you knew us well, you would understand how out of character it would be for Empyreans to form this sort of underground group—no matter what their beliefs or disagreements with government policies.

It wasn't his place to tell the Empyreans what he thought of them or how to conduct their affairs.

For all their enlightenment in other areas, he was well aware of how completely the Empyreans believed in their chosen path.

Compared to the effortless physical perfection of the Empyreans he'd seen, he felt like a scarecrow, his uniform hanging on his rawboned frame.

A century and a half of genetic management techniques may have made Empyreans stronger and smarter, but the primal imperatives deep within the human soul had remained unaltered.

And therefore, although he distinguishes angels from demons, asserting that the habitation of the latter is in the air, while the former dwell in the ether and empyrean, and although he advises us to cultivate the friendship of some demon, who may be able after our death to assist us, and elevate us at least a little above the earth,-for he owns that it is by another way we must reach the heavenly society of the angels,-he at the same time distinctly warns us to avoid the society of demons, saying that the soul, expiating its sin after death, execrates the worship of demons by whom it was entangled.