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Example sentences for: mysticism
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According to Rabbi Daniel Mechanic, an expert on the codes, the belief that the Torah contains encrypted messages dates to the medieval practitioners of the Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism.
The execution is even more problematic: There is an abundance of bad acting, heavy-handed moralizing, obvious dialogue--and, of course, the obligatory elderly Indian skulking about to highlight the mysticism of the situation.
Friedman may be guilty of the fatuous contention that no two countries with McDonald's franchises have ever gone to war with each other, but Rieff, in Los Angeles , indulges in some fast-food mysticism of his own when he sees a harbinger of our globalized, miscegenated, Third World future in the advent of the pita fajita.
It has stu-freakin'-pendous special effects, hipster sang-froid out the wazoo and a story line that makes only as much sense as it has to" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). A grudgingly appreciative Janet Maslin says that at its best the movie brings "Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind" (the New York Times ). Others criticize the convoluted story line and call it strictly genre and strictly for "guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). (To see the trailer and some fine Keanu pics, visit this fan site; check out David Edelstein's in Slate .)
P.S.: The Shopping Avenger will also entertain questions about Sufi mysticism.
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