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  • Not to the crude eye of the homme sensuel Metaphysically it was the Boss, but how was I to know?†  (source)
  • Metaphysically considered, the matter has a different and a much clearer aspect.†  (source)
  • So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another's mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster and death.†  (source)
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  • The question began to reverberate in their minds, a metaphysical conundrum.†  (source)
    metaphysical = relating to questions that cannot be answered with the scientific method
  • I am driving and going seventy-two and praying not to get a ticket and playing Metaphysical I Spy.†  (source)
  • We shan't deal with the metaphysical.†  (source)
  • But to destroy, or lose, a deathless thing—to break bonds stronger than the temporal — was a metaphysical uncoupling all its own, a startling new flavor of despair.†  (source)
  • I was angry with the Rev. Mr. Merrill for making of Owen Meany what Mr. Merrill so often made of Jesus Christ, or of God—a subject for "metaphysical speculation."†  (source)
  • "Oh yes," said Arthur, "I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective."†  (source)
  • I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery.†  (source)
  • He said he wanted to 'dismiss all this meaningless nonsense which long has dominated metaphysical thought and brought it into disrepute.'†  (source)
  • But is this interpreter necessarily metaphysical and unembodied?†  (source)
  • After all, Havilland's a class act — kind of metaphysical in this business.†  (source)
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