numinous

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Nothing in these stories, translated by Megan McDowell, is quite impossible, yet the shadow of numinous malignancy hangs over everything.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Kirk was after something cooler, grander, more numinous and entirely of the moment: celebrity as a celebration of itself, untethered to any specific skills or accomplishments.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

The fruit in those same kitchens looked numinous in the morning light.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

The creaky Romantic fantasy of the numinous artist, isolated from mundane labors, turning her back on the modern world to get in touch with higher truths, is on display.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2022

“Risley continues her disconcerting deconstruction of perceived gender and its relationship to perceived power, especially in respect to numinous imagery,” she says.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood