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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
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
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
In a country without antique monuments, the image of Arcadia serves to spiritualize the past.
From Time Magazine Archive
In its legitimate and highest efforts it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity,—that is, to spiritualize our nature….
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations by Carman, Bliss
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
Wright came up with the name by combining the words “utopia” and “USA,” thereby expressing precisely the kind of spiritualized manifest destiny Henry R. Luce would have applauded.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2014
The Yahwist strand portrays an anthropomorphic deity, the Elohist a spiritualized God.
From Time Magazine Archive
The light of the setting sun fell through the low window upon her face; it looked as if it were spiritualized in the rosy light.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In short, Jesus Christ always attempted to reform by spiritualizing.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson, Thomas
How brilliant the constellation, how spiritualizing the multitude of new thoughts to which it gives birth!
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
Livingstone gave it the glamour of his spiritualizing influence.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
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