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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
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
Thus shall he perform the highest function of the prophet—to spiritualize and glorify the common.
From Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield
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
We swam together in spiritualized gaslighting, grasping for a life that ought to be enough.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
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
And it is not noble or sublime or spiritualized, as one likes to believe.
From Time Magazine Archive
And, though memory has proved somewhat treacherous, I still vividly recollect the spiritualized face of this true child of genius, as he contemplated the magnificent impersonation.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marriage, in its truest type, is love spiritualizing life; the union of the mightiest and subtlest forces working the noblest results.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
Mr Gladstone’s spiritualizing touch was still to be laid upon the party that he was yet to join.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
The place, then, of literature in our common school education is in spiritualizing life, letting light into the mind, inspiring and feeding the higher forces of human nature.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry
From this we gather that none of those ancient men knew anything of the modern system of spiritualizing.
From A Voice of Warning An introduction to the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Parley P. Pratt
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