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Moss’s approach to musical presentation may sound quietistic, but it has often challenged the age-old, trance-inducing routines of classical performance.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
Its tone is quietistic, as might readily be conjectured, but it is the calm of serene reflection, not of indifference.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
They seem generally to have inclined to a quietistic accommodation to established forms of faith, till better times came.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Moreover, the quietistic note of renunciation for the sake of peace to the soul and integrity of personality is the final note of The Golden Fleece no less than of this fantasmagoria.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
We now come to a more interesting personality, in whom the ascetic and quietistic type of Ṣúfiism is transfigured by emotion and begins clearly to reveal the direction of its next advance.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
