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  • s  relating to or befitting Paradise
    together in that paradisal place

  • But whether in Marco Polo or James Hilton (and his Lost Horizon), paradise is likely to look more human than paradisal as soon as a human lands there.
  • When American officials told of great atomic explosions that would devastate their paradisal speck of coral, sand and palms, Bikini's Magistrate Juda took counsel.
  • At the Eden in Rome ("Truly paradisal," says Fielding), their room turned out to be tiny and cramped, overlooking a courtyard that was "like an echo chamber"; at the Athens Hilton .
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  • Anthony Burgess in hotpress.com (subscription)
    Anthony Burgess, a witness for the defence, wrote that the book's "collocation of misfits, perverts and predators snarls in a symbiosis that makes Dante's hell seem paradisal. This society is not (which our amateur censors appear to think) Selby's...

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