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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
In a country without antique monuments, the image of Arcadia serves to spiritualize the past.
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
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
Taken literally and read with a pure heart, it is eminently fitted to spiritualize the family relations.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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
Maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
Or maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
And it is not noble or sublime or spiritualized, as one likes to believe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus intellect began to grow warmer, sensuality to be spiritualized.
From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
He began with dreamy music; it was heavy with odors, at first, drugged with sense, then spiritualizing into strange, delicate fancies.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various
With the advent of modern spiritualism in 1848, came the first opportunity to bring woman forward as a teacher and leader in the great work of elevating and spiritualizing the masses.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
It identifies itself with the movements of her heart and with the actions of her life, spiritualizing the one and ennobling the other.
From The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies by Lady, An American
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