cosmogonic

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Emotional ambiguity has been one of her great strengths in the past — on “Golden Hour,” her space-cookie deadpan made uncomplicated lyrics about feeling “happy and sad at the same time” resonate like cosmogonic poetry.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2021

With its origins in pre-Buddhist burial mounds or sacred tumuli, it retains a cosmogonic power.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

It’s unfair to expect a cheerful animated comedy to approximate Malick’s cosmogonic exhilarations, but for a director of genius there are ways.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2015

She was not worshipped nor did she belong to any one place, but was a cosmogonic idea.

From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir

Now all this relates to a cosmogonic fact, anterior to the creation of man.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various