What does astrophilic mean?
Astrophilic means (rare) Related to or exhibiting astrophilia..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare) Related to or exhibiting astrophilia..
[…] is it specks on my glasses instead of lines of kids that I see in front of the movie houses hereabouts showing Brewster McCloud, the asinine tale of an astrophilic adolescent holing up in Houston's Astrodome; […]
The cosmos is limitless. The theater, with its four pesky walls, is not. The contrast might faze many an astrophilic thespian, but British performer Andrew Dawson has embraced it.
For me, this urge to gather and the draw of the night sky combine to create an iconic vision: a lineup of telescopes, with a nebula in this one, a star cluster in another and a planet in yet another, and people moving from one to the other to savor a view, then returning to their own scope to locate and view a different object and share again. It’s an astrophilic breaking of bread, an astronomical movable feast!
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Astrophilic means (rare) Related to or exhibiting astrophilia..
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[…] is it specks on my glasses instead of lines of kids that I see in front of the movie houses hereabouts showing Brewster McCloud, the asinine tale of an astrophilic adolescent holing up in Houston's Astrodome; […]
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