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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
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
The bright air and light incorporate, as it were, with the substance of the mountain, and spiritualize it, so that it looks of mould intermediate betwixt the earth and the firmament.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken
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
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
A thousand and a half of years have not spiritualized the belief with the multitude.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
It identifies itself with the movements of her heart and with the actions of her life, spiritualizing the one and ennobling the other.
From The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies by Lady, An American
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 McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)
Livingstone gave it the glamour of his spiritualizing influence.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
With the advent of modern spiritualism in 1848, came the first opportunity to bring woman forward as a teacher and leader in the great work of elevating and spiritualizing the masses.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
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