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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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But in the past decade, Chinese auto designs have developed their own, more worldly design vernacular, says Brenden Donnelly, who worked in design and brand management at the Chinese automakers Geely and Lynk & Co before founding his own startup.Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
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The Sterling family, with their exquisite taste and worldly knowledge and sky-high expectations.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Walking among them is an lesson in earthly renewal.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Filmed somewhere in a desert landscape, the video finds Musgraves communing with nature and all its earthly creations.Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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Married to Stanley, a man of carnal appetites and vulgar manners, Stella has embraced the crude pleasures of realism, while her freeloading sister still clings to tattered aristocratic illusions.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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That disconcerting closeness of the cosmic and carnal was par for the course for Combs, an altar boy turned entrepreneur whose career is a monument to these and other striking dualities.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 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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The paranormal phenomena spooking Spongebob and Squidward has a mundane explanation, but the entity flickering the lights turns out to be none other than Nosferatu, who reassures them with a terrifying smile; amusingly, Spongebob and Squidward are relieved to see him.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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The skin tones of these black actors, seen in mundane settings, achieve an aesthetic advance that elevates Leigh’s sociological vision.Armond White, National Review, 11 Dec. 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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To indicate aging, the number needs to be followed by the temporal unit (5 years or 12 months), otherwise the number is just the name of the product.Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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In hindsight, Barcelona’s decision in 2008 to hand control to him, rather than to fall under the sway of his great ideological antithesis, Jose Mourinho, has taken on the air of a temporal border.Rory Smith, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 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 22 Dec. 2024.
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