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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
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
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
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
Remember the readiness which he always showed to spiritualize every occurrence.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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
“Oh, please do sing it again!” besought Bess in a transport, her face spiritualized to a seraphic beauty.
From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of spiritualizing an innate impulse, it merely disguises it.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
Livingstone gave it the glamour of his spiritualizing influence.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
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
Of course, there is equal need of spiritualizing the urban home, but that problem does not concern us now.
From Rural Problems of Today by Groves, Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford)
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