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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
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
The aim of education, as I conceive it, is to spiritualize the largest possible number of persons, that is, to teach them how to do their own thinking and willing and to do it well.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
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
We swam together in spiritualized gaslighting, grasping for a life that ought to be enough.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
And it is not noble or sublime or spiritualized, as one likes to believe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lines of that blooming face were certainly far from regular; but even in sleep, there was an intellectual charm about it--a spiritualized sense of humour--that ennobled its expression.
From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
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 Josephine A. Jackson
Is marriage, as we see it practically carried out, penetrated with this vivifying and spiritualizing element?
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
It is also held by some of the Fathers, who attribute to sanctifying grace both a deifying and a spiritualizing power.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
It has an effect of spiritualizing the material, and giving the figures an ethereal appearance.
From The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
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