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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
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
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
His tendency was to spiritualize as much as possible all the devotions in use in the Church.
From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott
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
In their churches, food banks, recovery services and community meetings, local NAR leaders offer individual and highly spiritualized explanations for this country’s systemic crises of poverty, homelessness, hunger and addiction.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2025
We swam together in spiritualized gaslighting, grasping for a life that ought to be enough.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
When he says, "Every spiritualized state grows out of what was originally a non-spiritual one," he is thinking of some sudden stepping-up of the state rather than the slow process called growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
And, though memory has proved somewhat treacherous, I still vividly recollect the spiritualized face of this true child of genius, as he contemplated the magnificent impersonation.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
One who, aside from her physical attractions, possessed all the charms of inner grace and beauty, idealizing and spiritualizing her nature.
From The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Mary L. Day
The spiritualizing influence of this intellectual work, carries with it the compensation of a great reward.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson
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
Another theory of spiritualizing democracy, no less familiar to the student of nineteen-century literature, is what is called "the divine average" doctrine of Walt Whitman.
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Bliss Perry
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