Example sentences for: mystic

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

  • 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.

  • Spanish: Uncompromising Velázquez portrait of Queen Marianna of Austria; El Greco’s mystic Christ on the Cross; Ribera’s gruesomely good-humored The Club Foot (Le Pied-Bot).

  • The mystic interpretation--Prague as the city of Kabbalists and demons, of Rabbi Loew and his clay android, the Golem--arose in the late 19 th century.

  • It was a bit of late Romanticism, which flourished in English literature, then in German cinema, and reached an apogee of acceptance in 1973 in a stylish volume by Angelo Maria Ripellino called, after a phrase by André Breton, Magic Prague . But the mystic interpretation is exactly what Peter Demetz, a professor of German at Yale, wishes to counter in his own Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes From the Life of a European City . Demetz's Prague is the city of the late-16 th century Emperor Rudolf II (a scientific-minded man, though he did go mad at the end) and the 19 th century logician Bernard Bolzano.

  • 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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