mysticism
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Over time her work became more personal, leaning in to Afrocentric mysticism and her distinctive voice, which sidesteps gospel projection in favor of intimate and playful phrasing that recalls Billie Holiday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Fortune telling and mysticism are common in Eastern Europe, she explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Beta takes a similar approach to expressions of spirituality and mysticism, which there is a fair amount of in this book, given Alice Coltrane’s personal journey into becoming Swamini Turiyasangitananda.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
Photographer Sebastian Pii is the perfect guide through the bewildering mysticism of Colombian writer-director Augusto Sandino’s debut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
He had no mysticism about turtles although he had gone in turtle boats for many years.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
It had its origin in that instinctive yearning after the supernatural, the Divine, which dwells in all human hearts, and which has revealed itself in all philosophies, mysticisms, and religions.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
From these mysticisms and technicalities of Troubadour and all other poetic guilds Browning decisively detaches his poet.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
There are superstitions of the reason and of realism,—the grotesque fancies, mysticisms, and vagaries which prevail, and the diseased gusto for something ultra and outlandish which affects many raw and undisciplined minds.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
Abjuring Mysticisms We shall lead your interest away from "vague mysticisms" and emphasize such phases of scientific psychological theory as bear directly on practical achievement.
From Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
His brain was becoming too crammed with queries, with strange happenings and with the aggravating mysticisms of the life into which his father's death had thrown him to permit clearness of vision.
From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper
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The Old Man and the Sea
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"The Fallacy of Success" by G.K. Chesterton
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