When we depart this life, we ascend to a Paradise of a world where happiness, peace and love abound in the company of the people we love who have ascended there ahead of us.
His New England fishing village is in a cobalt blue box that doubles as heaven when Billy ascends there in the second act.
Starting in the basement and ascending, there's a sports pub, a cocktail bar and restaurant, a mezzanine with bottle service and a Champagne-themed lounge.
And you may rest assured that if there is a heaven the title character, a partly disabled dwarf, whom Ian Michael Smith plays with the squeaky-voiced "sincerity" of an Edward Keane child brought to life, ascends there instantly.
Let's just say it: if he thinks America is ascending, there's only one possibility: it's going down.
In his view, the Biblical heaven was actually a planet on which highly evolved beings dwelt, and physical bodies were required to ascend there.
Then, as they ascended, it started to rain.
Unlike Mr. Clinton or Mr. Bush when they ascended, she knows Washington; unlike Mr. Obama when he ascended, she has executive experience.
Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger writes "since the gate of heaven is near the Western Wall, it is understandable that all Israel's prayers ascend on high there...as one of the great ancient kabbalists Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla said, when the Jews send their prayers from the Diaspora in the direction of Jerusalem, from there they ascend by way of the Western Wall".
There are many reasons for the relative complaisance of fans who chant "red army" as they ascend the steps to the Emirates Stadium.
