gnostic

Example Sentences

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Edgar Calel’s dimly lighted installation, in which stones and plant matter dangle over vessels that hold flickering, electronic flames, transports us to a contemplative gnostic ritual.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

David isn’t cruel like the gnostic Jesus, but he is unmanageable.

From New York Times • May 26, 2020

We can feel its gnostic effects on our everyday reality, but we rarely see it, and it’s quite inscrutable to non-initiates.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2019

Participants concoct their own interpretations of Q’s gnostic “bread crumbs,” or share those dreamed up by others.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2019

There is, as it were, a degradation a gnostic fall, in thus folding one's wings and going back again into the vulgar shell of one's own individuality.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.