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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

I conceive this to be the more strenuous type of emotion; but I have to admit that its inability to let loose quietistic raptures is a serious deficiency in the pluralistic philosophy which I profess.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

There brotherhoods, some mystical and quietistic, others enthusiastic and fanatical, were growing in numbers and importance.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William

Frederick's own quietistic ideal in the form of a farm and a solitary log hut occurred to him.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold

This quietistic tendency cannot be denied in the fourteenth century mystics, though it is largely counteracted by maxims of an opposite kind.

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph