mysticism
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Her work courses with an assured mysticism that makes her feel so emblematic of L.A. itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
But mysticism also holds sway behind the closed door of politics.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Among Freedom Advances’ 151 hopefuls are a former Playboy model, an ex-member of the leftist party that long ruled Argentina and an influencer famous for talking about politics and mysticism on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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They are happy, cheerful spirits, void of mysteries, and do not torture people with mysticisms.
From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter
There are superstitions of the reason and of realism,—the grotesque fancies, mysticisms, and vagaries which prevail, and the diseased gusto for something ultra and outlandish which affects many raw and undisciplined minds.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
They took refuge in the most sombre of mysticisms, or, at least, in dogmatism of the narrowest kind.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum
Here he soon became disgusted with the mysticisms of the schoolmen.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon
His brain was becoming too crammed with queries, with strange happenings and with the aggravating mysticisms of the life into which his father's death had thrown him to permit clearness of vision.
From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley
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The Old Man and the Sea
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"The Fallacy of Success" by G.K. Chesterton
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