Eliade
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Time disappears and is replaced with what the religious scholar Mircea Eliade calls the “eternal mythical present,” with its heroes and tragedies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
His biggest breakthrough came not from a fellow magician but from a historian: Mircea Eliade, a Romanian scholar of religion known for his writing on esoteric subjects like alchemy and shamanism.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Instead we adopt the insight of nearly all traditional societies: that social time is a recurring cycle in which events become meaningful only to the extent that they are what philosopher Mircea Eliade calls “reenactments.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2017
Cioran admitted that he had been wrong in his youth, but Eliade could only allow himself to remark that “communism won”.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2016
Among other admirers of this music was Eliade, twin sister of Leonora, and resembling her so closely that even friends could scarcely distinguish her.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes
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