Mankind has lost a face, an irretrievable face, and everyone would like to be that pilgrim (dreamed of in the empyrean, under the Rose) who sees Veronica's handkerchief in Rome and murmurs with faith

dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable

The other inescapable new presence is Barneys, a sleek store that displays, across two rather sparsely stocked floors, clothing, accessories and jewelry priced at such an empyrean level that I am challenged to appreciate the allure of, say, a $1,000 pair of sneakers, a $5,000 purse.

Gilded Age industrialism was the irresistible and empyrean story of the forces of production in the hands of great men

I felt stuck in my own subjectivity, unable to ascend to empyrean heights of critical authority.

the man of letters quickly returns to the empyrean he shares with the professionals of the vocation

an infinitely and perplexingly ascending trajectory towards an empyrean of extraliterary fame