religiose
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- religiosely adverb
- religiosity noun
Etymology
Origin of religiose
1850–55; < Latin religiōsus; religious
Example Sentences
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At its best, however, fans can feel part of something wonderful, complicated, even religiose, something much larger than themselves and generations old.
From The New Yorker
The religiose sentimentality and painful growl, like a halibut with strep throat, have patched a lot of plot holes.
From New York Times
She makes them sound contemporary and newly contemplative; she understates the dimensions that can seem religiose or portentous; she shows both wry humor and deep poignancy.
From New York Times
In 1981, in a piece about the Royal Ballet’s 50th-birthday season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Arlene Croce wrote that the danger to the “pearly classicism” of the Ashtonian style “is from this new religiose preoccupation with the human body and its contortions which is now so pronounced in MacMillan’s ballets.”
From New York Times
"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a satire on anti-refugee paranoia? Is it a religiose parable of guilt and redemption? Is it a Euro-arthouse superhero origin myth?" wrote The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, eventually settling on calling "Jupiter's Moon" a "messily ambitious and over-extended movie with some great images".
From Reuters
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