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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
Skeptical of progress, Cole painted the landscape as Arcadia, which served to spiritualize the past in a land without antique monuments.
From Time Magazine Archive
It also did so on a grander scale, binding an immense continent with tracks and producing trains of such magnificence that they moved Nathaniel Hawthorne to exclaim: "They spiritualize travel!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The monk Athenaय perceives in a vision that his mission is to spiritualize Thaïs, to make her the bride of Christ.
From Time Magazine Archive
Philo's answer is in fact to spiritualize everything that is material, and universalize everything that is particular.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
This production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” seems like a gift from the other side, that mysterious, creative realm where history is spiritualized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
Or maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
Wright came up with the name by combining the words “utopia” and “USA,” thereby expressing precisely the kind of spiritualized manifest destiny Henry R. Luce would have applauded.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2014
And it is not noble or sublime or spiritualized, as one likes to believe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her face lacked the almost spiritualized expression of his, but undoubtedly there was a likeness.
From A Life For a Love A Novel by L. T. Meade
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course, there is equal need of spiritualizing the urban home, but that problem does not concern us now.
From Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves
In the field of theistic conception the propædeutic office of Grecian philosophy is seen-- I. In the release of the popular mind from Polytheistic notion, and the purifying and spiritualizing of the Theistic idea.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Be thou a cause for the illumining of hearts and spiritualizing of souls.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
It has an effect of spiritualizing the material, and giving the figures an ethereal appearance.
From The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
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