tamasic
- a word derived from tamas.
Example Sentences
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Though he came to Benares to walk, talk, listen, and write, the tamasic charge of the city has not unshackled him from the paradigm of personal identity—of his desire, above all, to look inward.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
The tamasic mood was elegantly characterized by one of the city’s best-known residents, the Swiss artist Alice Boner, who lived there from 1935 to 1978.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
