For every heaven-sent gown (if I must, my stand-out is a silk jacquard dress from 2010 that had been miraculously printed with the angel of the annunciation from the 15th-century Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes) come half a dozen that seem to have risen straight up from the underworld, the better to strangle you.
Nonetheless, it is intriguing to contemplate what American capitalism would become if every chief executive, every personnel director, every small-business owner -- and heaven knows, every state and federal lawmaker -- had to read this book.
"The Israelis are sending our people to Heaven every day.
Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
Jerusalem 1000 1400: Every People Under Heaven is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through 8 January.
More than 30,000 dogs sent to heaven every year and remains removed by Dead Animal Removal Co.
The Qianlong emperor claimed, somewhat optimistically, that his dynasty's majestic virtue had penetrated every country under heaven.
The elaborate artifice that characterised his previous book (published here as A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven) was abandoned.
But she said of him in 1902: "He has every virtue under heaven, and nice tastes, certainly.
After thanking his family and staff he added: "The Bible says that there is a time for every season under heaven.
United with them, and in the name of every creature under heaven, we too praise your glory as we say: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory.
