spiritualize

Example Sentences

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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

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

She frenetically tries to spiritualize materialism�to set up a kind of materialist morality in which "money is the root of all good" because it stands for man's creativity.

From Time Magazine Archive

In its legitimate and highest efforts it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity,—that is, to spiritualize our nature….

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations by Carman, Bliss