quietistic
- a word derived from quietism.
Example Sentences
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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
But quietistic Mysticism often puts the matter on a wrong basis.
From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph
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 Francke, Kuno
All poets of the first rank are both; yet the quietistic and purely introspective critics assign a place, and a prior place as a rule, in the front rank, to poets who are only second.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred
