Example Sentences

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Emotional ambiguity has been one of her great strengths in the past — on “Golden Hour,” her space-cookie deadpan made uncomplicated lyrics about feeling “happy and sad at the same time” resonate like cosmogonic poetry.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2021

With its origins in pre-Buddhist burial mounds or sacred tumuli, it retains a cosmogonic power.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

It’s unfair to expect a cheerful animated comedy to approximate Malick’s cosmogonic exhilarations, but for a director of genius there are ways.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2015

In their elaborate cosmogonic myth the first actors are Coyote, First Man, and First Woman, and there is discord between Coyote and his human coworkers.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

I proceed to indicate, in a few words, the cosmogonic system which Laplace substituted for that of the illustrious author of the Histoire Naturelle.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert