Meanings of rarified atmosphere in English

The Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified atmosphere.

For four years they had lived in the rarified atmosphere of celestial friendship.

The landscape is highly picturesque and the phantasmagoric effects of the rarified atmosphere are bewitching.

His lungs, distended by the rarified atmosphere, threatened to burst with an explosion akin to a steamboat's.

This philosophic plane was too high for Emmy, who had her pleasant being in a less rarified atmosphere.

Mrs. Esden moved in a rarified atmosphere of gratified ambition and parental pride, which no doubt closely resembled that which the angels breathe.

Clemence, Darsie, and Lavender were acutely conscious of the rarified atmosphere by which they were surrounded, and only regretted its necessarily limited duration.

He is of the "earth earthy," and in the rarified atmosphere of noble ambition and great achievements, he is utterly blind and of no account.