Sentence examples for celestial status from inspiring English sources
That those responsible for modernizing the metropolis are coping with these problems suggests the appropriateness of its official emblem: the God Indra seated atop a sacred white elephant, the four tusks of which denote its celestial status and its ability to accomplish the impossible.
The journey has taken sufficiently long that in the intervening years the status of the celestial body has been downgraded by astronomers from planet to the less impressive-sounding dwarf planet.
Whether the cosmos has unmoved or moved movers, moreover, whether the universe is causally closed or needs some continuous external causal influence for its preservation, depends ultimately, then, on the status of the celestial motions.
It cannot help reminding us that the once celestial Lumley now enjoys the dread status of national treasure, devoting what remains of her sweetness to Gurkhas and garden bridges.
Native Americans of the Mississippian culture (c. 800 1500) used the peregrine, along with several other birds of prey, in imagery as a symbol of "aerial (celestial) power" and buried men of high status in costumes associating to the ferocity of "raptorial" birds.
The exalted status of archaic supreme beings and celestial gods does not necessarily involve exclusion of other supreme beings.
In spite of Brahma appearing before him and granting him the higher status of a rishi instead of a royal-sage (rajarishi), Vishwamitra continued his penance, but, the celestial nymph apsara, Menaka came to the lake to take a bath.
This is pretty celestial stuff.
