How to Use spiritualism in a Sentence

spiritualism

noun
  • Tabourn said this could lead to a rise in spiritualism and cults.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Even if new-age spiritualism isn’t your thing, keep an open mind.
    Julissa James, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • The president once summed up his own views on spiritualism in a single word.
    John J. Miller, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The edgy horror, sure, but also the blending of genres, tangling sci-fi and spiritualism.
    Goldie Chan, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Patience Worth came along during the final blooming of spiritualism in the United States.
    Joy Lanzendorfer, Longreads, 14 June 2018
  • Black Dogs is a novel of ideas pitting rationalism against spiritualism and encompassing the Holocaust and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
    Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
  • And Light Industry in Greenpoint will screen early shorts that draw on the prevailing interest in spiritualism at the time they were made.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The answer comes by way of a favorite—and racist—crutch for horror-films: Native American spiritualism.
    Nick Martin, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Inside, the shop’s offerings range from books on spiritualism to crystals and small statues.
    Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Rosner, who now works as an astrologer, says he, too, was captivated by the group’s spiritualism, but quickly pulled away.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2022
  • Art and Soul Hilma af Klint explored abstraction and spiritualism in her paintings.
    Katharine K. Zarrella, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Hunger for proof of a world beyond our own fuelled the rise of spiritualism in the mid-nineteenth century, and then the birth of mentalism as a form of popular entertainment.
    Adam Green, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Odd superstitions arise along with strange rituals of grieving - just as spiritualism flourished around the agony of the Civil War.
    The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
  • Odd superstitions arise along with strange rituals of grieving – just as spiritualism flourished around the agony of the Civil War.
    Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Solace came to her through spiritualism, the popular movement that allegedly put the living in direct contact with the dead.
    David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Savannah, along with other Southern cities, is home to many macabre tours that mix history and spiritualism.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
  • Popular in the 19th century, spiritualism was both a party activity and a way to cope with loss.
    Courant Community, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Things Heard & Seen, now streaming on Netflix, is many things: a ghost story, a tense family drama, a crime thriller, and a celebration of art history and spiritualism.
    Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 2 May 2021
  • His playing on stage was now freer and more assertive, influenced in part by his growing spiritualism, the civil-rights struggle and rising Afrocentrism.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • That was in keeping with her character: a private spiritualism braced by steely logic and a commitment to comity and compassion.
    Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But Williamson introduced herself to a large audience who will likely be curious to hear more of her brand of self-help, psychology and spiritualism.
    NBC News, 28 June 2019
  • In his telling, spiritualism gained enough traction to appeal to two quite different American families — but so what?
    Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • And at the same time spiritualism—the resort to mediums for sibylline wisdom or contact with the dead—began to flourish among educated people, even among scientists, as never before.
    Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
  • According to the biography, Marcia was interested in spiritualism and the occult, and the couple led a reclusive life.
    Christen Kelley, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Father Bill Moore, a Catholic priest and prominent abstract expressionist who spent decades spreading spiritualism through his paintings, has died at 71.
    John Rogers, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
  • West, born in Oklahoma before the civil rights era, has been an outspoken voice who has bridged the schools of socialist tradition to Christianity and spiritualism more broadly.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
  • The trauma of the Civil War inflamed white Americans’ interest in spiritualism.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Bloom began to explore theosophy, Vedanta (one of the main branches of Hindu philosophy) and other forms of spiritualism.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
  • Pater may have been a creature of 19th century spiritualism and aestheticism, his sensibility as alien to the Renaissance as to our own era of metrics and algorithms.
    Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Eugénie is smart, an avid reader and a rebellious character with an interest in spiritualism.
    CNN, 17 Sep. 2021

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