Example sentences for: mysticism

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

  • Culturebox, whose job it is to write articles that are short, is planning to devote herself to kabala, a form of Jewish mysticism, weirdly made popular by Madonna and Roseanne, in which one finds a deeper meaning in small, seemingly insignificant words and individual letters.

  • P.S.: The Shopping Avenger will also entertain questions about Sufi mysticism.

  • Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.

  • Actually, what I hope to dispel isn't pre-Darwinian mystery, but a kind of post-Darwinian mysticism, a confused exaltation of genetic affinity.

  • In the 1880s, he was snared by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the eccentric Russian who invented theosophy--a blend of Eastern mysticism, occult optimism, and universal brotherhood.


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