What (who) is heavenwards - definition
heavenwards
see heavenward
Heavenward
SINGLE BY WOLF ALICE
·adj & ·adv Toward heaven.
heavenward
SINGLE BY WOLF ALICE
also heavenwards
Heavenward means towards the sky or to heaven. (WRITTEN)
He rolled his eyes heavenward in disgust.
= upward
ADV: ADV after v
Examples of use of heavenwards
1. Sreesanth throws his hands heavenwards, and then follows through with some advice after Flintoff leaves the next ball alone.
2. As the strains of Elgar‘s Nimrod soared heavenwards, the focus was swiftly dragged back to the woman whose life the 450 guests had come to remember.
3. During the pre–lunch session, he regularly returned to his mark with eyes upturned, muttering to the individual he calls "the man upstairs" – a phrase ambiguous when he was on Kerry Packer‘s payroll, but now more obviously aimed heavenwards.
4. Brown might be much too leaden, but he is never going to win a levity contest with a man liable, if he sheds any more Tory ballast, to shoot heavenwards like a helium balloon.
5. And then in Canto 4, Virgil tells Dante of Jesus Christ‘s visit to Limbo to whisk Noah, Moses, Abraham, Rachel and others off to Heaven, for "their stay was done". When, Socrates and Plato might well ask, shall we too scamper Heavenwards?