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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
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
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
And when a man and a woman reach an altitude where they spiritualize their love, they are in no danger of wearing it out.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert
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
Or maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
Maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
When he says, "Every spiritualized state grows out of what was originally a non-spiritual one," he is thinking of some sudden stepping-up of the state rather than the slow process called growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have recalled her to life; and, wonderful to relate, I have purified and spiritualized her whole nature by the sanctifying influence of my presence.”
From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
This spiritualizing is in accordance with law and is within the power of all.
From In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Trine, Ralph Waldo
But Homer maintained his place in literature, and the demand for a spiritualizing of his works increased rather than diminished.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
Is marriage, as we see it practically carried out, penetrated with this vivifying and spiritualizing element?
From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail
Amid such splendor I began to realize that love has the power of spiritualizing all things, of interfusing them with its own rapture.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard
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