spiritualize

How To Use spiritualize In A Sentence

• Were they spiritualized, minimized, or did they fail to find fulfillment only because of the failure of the restoration to materialize?
• Sri Aurobindo's "prescription for a spiritualized aesthesis" rids us from the burden of "responsibility" dogging or any nagging sense of lack or guilt. Archive 2008-03-01
• But the overall effect of the poem is one of denial, fabricated intimacy and an insulting treatment of a situation that in our culture has already been spiritualized and depersonalized to death.
• -- despiritualize me completely -- does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure? Flappers and Philosophers
• The convenient thing in the traditional Christian Tradition is their distance from their revelations, they can try and "spiritualize" things like the flood or the miracles. Romney Blasts McCain! Presidential Race Underway
• It could not be called a transfiguration that sleep had worked in his face; for the features wore essentially the same expression when waking; but sleep spiritualized that expression, exalted it, and also harmonized it. Biographical Essays
• Miracle stories per se may be crude renderings of the seamless and spiritual way in which God truly responds to the world but, when properly spiritualized, they take on value.
• At lunch today we spoke a little about prasadam, vegetarian foods that have been spiritualized by being offered to Krishna in the temple.
• He did not “see his seed, ” nor “prolong his days, ” since he died childless; and we will not permit the word “seed” to be spiritualized on this occasion, for the word “seed” in the Old Testament, means nothing else, than literally “children, ” which it is not pretended he ever had; and how could he “prolong his days, ” when he was cut off in his 33d year. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
• Bergson is a kind of chastened and spiritualized Herbert Spencer. In the Noon of Science