mysticism
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Fortune telling and mysticism are common in Eastern Europe, she explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
The intense chiaroscuro evokes the mysticism of William Blake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
But mysticism also holds sway behind the closed door of politics.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 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
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"Liszt's criticisms upon his separate works have all the eloquent mysticisms to be expected from him; and the biography is a book musicians will always prize."
From The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University by Buck, Dudley
Materialism, democracy, rationalism, anarchy contending against Medievalism of twenty sorts, and strange mysticisms out of the East.
From Towards the Great Peace by Cram, Ralph Adams
Her account of the matter was highly satisfactory, and I must have been made of stone, not to credit her and her mysticisms.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
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
But when these mellifluous mysticisms are once translated into "the vulgar tongue" they prove to be, strange to say, easily within the comprehension of the ordinary layman.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis
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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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