How to Use numinous in a Sentence

numinous

adjective

• Her poetry is filled with a numinous beauty.
• The fruit in those same kitchens looked numinous in the morning light.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• Its outside is battered and crusty, but the inside shines numinous in gold leaf.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• Armed with the right mind-set, the familiar could become numinous.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
• Ecstatic or even numinous encounters at the edges of the earth.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• His desire is to show the ever-so-slightly numinous in the ordinary.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2017
• And this, too, was a play that memorably made room for the numinous, the inexplicable.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• There’s a place among the numinous for the right kind of mortal, and Rupert makes a tentative, if ugly, living here and on the edges of Kuala Lumpur’s underworld.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2017
• The music in Stardew Valley can feel buoyant, melancholy, or numinous—sometimes all three at once.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2019
• Other cathedrals have dreamed up even more eccentric ways to make use of the vast, numinous spaces under their control.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• The former receive all the press and relate to the feeling of an overwhelming presence, something numinous, divine.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
• Set in the fairy tale-like beauty of the Pacific Northwest, the film captures a numinous world that shimmers between the visionary and natural.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
• The book has less to do with heroic resistance than with something harder to put your finger on: the numinous, world-renewing potential that some Apache feel in Oak Flat.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
• The creaky Romantic fantasy of the numinous artist, isolated from mundane labors, turning her back on the modern world to get in touch with higher truths, is on display.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• His fascination with a numinous world that may not mean anything at all: that’s his equivalent of Balzac’s greedy-eyed fascination with money.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• María Elena moved through a world that was haunted by spirits, numinous presences who could give comfort and advice or demand sacrifice and appeasement.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• The falling from the sky of ice crystals is the product of natural rules; but numinous causes and compossibilities now suggested themselves.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
• As Lepage maps out his family’s unit and those of each of his neighbors, the building springs to numinous life, seeming to contain not just its tenants but multitudes, a cross-section of Quebec and of humanity, the cosmos in microcosm.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• In the living room, Solomun recalled numinous moments from recent performances.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The seventh-century Dome of the Rock now encloses the likeliest site of this transcendent physical link between the earthly and the numinous, which is also the spot where Muslims believe Muhammad ascended to heaven.
  — Armin Rosen, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• For the sculptor Cornelia Parker, the conflagration presented a different kind of opportunity: a chance to source art supplies with a numinous backstory.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 20 May 2022
• In remedying that, Kurlander offers a strikingly different and deeply disturbing perspective on the rise and subsequent trajectory of the Third Reich, and, most unsettling of all, on the numinous appeal of its Führer.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 Sep. 2017
• This understanding of existence as both concrete and numinous jibed with Ellis’s photographic practice.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2021
• Many fuse the observational practices of cinéma vérité with the more active mode of interviewing; some use numinous close-ups in sequences of visual ambiguity to supplement more conventional exposition.
  — Phoebe Chen, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024