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Recent Examples of unspiritual
When the 1990s brought an emphasis on art being viewed as unspiritual, unpoetical, socioeconomic evidence, the perspective on Cole changed.
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Holland Cotter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Holland Cotter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspiritual
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The couple were first romantically linked in 2020 and have publicly documented their relationship, worldly travels and White’s Olympic farewell on their social media pages ever since.Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
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The following day, Mercury will enter your worldly territory, sparking your curiosity and desire to express yourself more openly.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Otherworldly ambitions, though, can come with earthly costs.Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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On the flip side of things (quite literally), the Netherworld occupied by the recently, and not-so-recently, deceased needed to come off as eerie and a place where earthly rules of sound no longer apply.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Unfortunately, the singer’s obsessions with Atlanta culture and carnal desire led to a momentum-killing sequence that briefly sent the concert off the rails.Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
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But only in the closing moments are there flashes of the carnal flame that should fuel this classic.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
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As Ezri and their sisters parse supernatural horrors from earthbound ones, Solomon succeeds in evoking an atmosphere in which there is more than one way to feel haunted. Canoes, by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Jessica Moore (Archipelago).The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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But there was something deeper keeping Saldaña from exploring more earthbound projects.Angelique Jackson, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
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These mundane tasks and long hours of repetitive training culminate in competitive outbursts where careers are made and broken.Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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By Matteo Wong Photographs by Jenn Ackerman When Melissa Kono, the town clerk in Burnside, Wisconsin, began training election workers in 2015, their questions were relatively mundane.Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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What the world desires, in short, is a glimpse of a video game, which no one will be able to play until 2025—a game that builds an entire alternative world, glowing with the promise of violence and other fleshly thrills.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
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But the album offers more than deliciously hedonistic thrills: Thrusting us into their operatic world, this Brooklyn band makes peace with their dark memories and fleshly desires.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
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Murphy probably shouldn’t have returned to such close geographic and temporal proximity to the tremendous The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story — and, indeed, the two shows have many points of overlap, all of which favor American Crime Story.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
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Additionally, temporal control techniques like pausing before responding or speaking at a moderate pace can demonstrate thoughtfulness and composure.Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Our attention plunges in while the body remains firmly rooted in the sublunary world.Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
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Planets and stars, eclipses and conjunctions would seem to have no direct effect on our lives, unlike the mundane and sublunary antics of our fellow humans.Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
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“Unspiritual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspiritual. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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