Paradise lost, paradise regained.
These explicit comparisons introduced by "like" or "as" proliferate across Paradise Lost.
Until it does, or until the regime collapses, paradise across the border in China will long beckon for those like Rim Sunhee, however great their heartache and no matter how perilous their existence.
Although the drama that storms across this rugged paradise encompasses a war and a major earthquake, not to mention oodles of star-crossed love, little of it comes to life.
In a variation of that theme, paintings of the Nika Byakudō ("White Path to the Western Paradise Across Two Rivers") type show both the difficulties encountered by the believer journeying to the Western Paradise and, at the centre, the Jizō benevolently ministering to those in need.
But with a hop across the Gulf of Naples, Ferrante transports readers to paradise.
BUENOS AIRES — For the people of Buenos Aires, Uruguay, the small country just across the Río de la Plata estuary, can seem like paradise.
After returning home, Vynehall came across a National Geographic documentary about the courtship rituals of birds of paradise, called Designed To Dance.
Halfway across the Cotswolds, near Cirencester, the garden writer Rosemary Verey fashioned a little corner of paradise.
News media across the globe, including the Independent, reported supposed comments by the pontiff suggesting that "paradise is open to all God's creatures".
These transported couples aren't mere mortals but momentary Olympians, like Fred and Ginger floating across a penthouse dance floor, as they share an all-too-brief glimpse of paradise.
