gnostic
Example Sentences
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Copyright law is two things: a gnostically complex rubric for deciding who can reproduce a work of art, and one of the most powerful legal forces on the internet.
From The Verge
Participants concoct their own interpretations of Q’s gnostic “bread crumbs,” or share those dreamed up by others.
From Washington Post
This immersive poetry collection proceeds like a mixtape or a gnostic gospel as it follows the titular crew’s coming of age in East Harlem in the early nineties.
From The New Yorker
Rather, it’s a “specific spiritual tradition derived from an amalgamation of gnostic Christianity, esoteric Judaism and Taoist energy practices.”
From The Guardian
Like members of a gnostic cult, we long to enter the next transcendent phase of our development, shedding our bodies and leaving them behind, along with our sins and troubles.
From The Guardian
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