Example sentences for: mysticism

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

  • I think I'll start by auctioning off my copy of Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Quran, Miraj, Poets and Theological Writings .

  • 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.

  • The other thing that struck me about Bradley's performance was the somewhat inconsistent quality of what one journalist recently described as his streak of "civic mysticism."

  • 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.

  • Also in Time , trend-spotting: the Kabbalah, a brand of Jewish mysticism employing numerology and the code-breaking of sacred texts, is drawing celebrity converts (Madonna, Roseanne, and Laura Dern, among others).


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