cabala
Example Sentences
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Bach was into puzzles, numerology, and all kinds of musical cabala, so the nuttiest idea of all about his tuning might well be right.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2010
Too often she seems to be hectoring the reader to decipher a private cabala.
From Time Magazine Archive
The consumption tax would drastically reduce the number of exclusions, deductions and credits that now make the Internal Revenue Code a cabala for tax lawyers and C.P.A.s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mia Farrow adds an otherworldliness to her character by reciting her lines as if they were cabala.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Nay, I attended their ceremonies but to see how vainly they sought to revive the ancient marvels of the cabala."
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
