Example sentences for: mystic

How can you use “mystic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the mystic Holy Allegory (1490) of Giovanni Bellini, we can appreciate the typical Venetian serenity even without understanding its symbols.

  • Although Zen had been present in Japan since the 12th century, its ascendancy began under the Kamakura regime, which found the mystic Chinese philosophy admirably suited to Japanese sensitivity, impressionism, and love of form and ritual.

  • He makes reference to the eighteenth-century Jewish mystic Israel Baal Shem Tov and a paragraph later refers to him as “Tov”--a similar misunderstanding.

  • The walled city of Ávila is the birthplace of the mystic St. Theresa, who still commands intense devotion among her followers.

  • Spiritual preoccupations turned away from the world’s few joys and woes in the present, to mystic contemplation of the ineffable hereafter.


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