And Miyazaki springs surprises that capture the otherworldliness of aviation better than almost any live-action film.

NEWYORKER: Porco Rosso

For a European, China always has a strange otherworldliness.

BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

Albert is a waiter in an upmarket Dublin hotel, and the uniform adds starch to her otherworldliness: grief-black suit and tie, snowy shirt, and, for outdoors, a rolled umbrella and an ill-fitting bowler hat.

NEWYORKER: Material Girls

Equally characteristic was otherworldliness bordering on fantasy.

ECONOMIST: Indian biography: Skin deep | The

His otherworldliness was tinged with melancholy.

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