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  • They don't accept our saints and shrines—many Pakistanis are also mystical people and gather at Sufi shrines to dance and worship.†   (source)
  • These flakes, it says in candid lettering the colours of lollipops, of fleecy cotton jogging suits, are not made from corrupt, overly commercial corn and wheat, but from little-known grains with hard-to-pronounce names — archaic, mystical.†   (source)
  • I have theories, too, but they're not mystical.†   (source)
  • City of artists and writers, Sufis and mystics.†   (source)
  • Now, Tarot's mystical qualities were passed on by modern fortune-tellers.†   (source)
  • "I would think," she said, in a mystical whisper that did not conceal her obvious annoyance, "that some of us" — she stared very meaningfully at Harry— "might be a little less frivolous had they seen what I have seen during my crystal gazing last night.†   (source)
  • If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.†   (source)
  • While Williams contented himself with these mystical manipulations, Sonny Seiler mounted a vigorous legal campaign to strengthen the position of the defense.†   (source)
  • In some corners of the world we were regarded as shamans and mystics, consulted in times of trouble.†   (source)
  • And the mystical muddiness of so much of the thinking—I remember that, too; and talking to plants.†   (source)
  • There's something special, almost mystical, about spending dawn on the water, he thought to himself, and he did it almost every day now.†   (source)
  • I scribbled Okay on my own notebook and then turned to a blank page as Dr. Hyde started talking about Sufism, the mystical sect of Islam.†   (source)
  • Little black babies denied knowledge of the Mystical Body of Christ?†   (source)
  • I can see you find my mysticism distasteful.†   (source)
  • Like an army of mystical beavers repairing storm damage.†   (source)
  • She'd made a grim figure on the Fiji beach during our two-week honeymoon, battling her way through a million mystical pages of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, casting pissy glances at me as I devoured thriller after thriller.†   (source)
  • Danny is doing subconsciously what these so-called mystics and mind readers do quite consciously and cynically.†   (source)
  • The Mogadorian weapons function in some way that I don't think I'll ever understand, because of the mystical gateways between the realms.†   (source)
  • The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.†   (source)
  • "Thee Mystics rule," one of them yelled from the other side of the school fence.†   (source)
  • We usually call this a mystical experience.†   (source)
  • Said it was irrational mysticism.†   (source)
  • An overly keen sense of injustice or a tendency to mysticism didn't mesh well with annexations.†   (source)
  • They've got to be visions, omens, and all that other mystical stuff that makes my brain hurt.†   (source)
  • I decided I was just glad he didn't claim there was some mystical, wolfy connection between the two of us.†   (source)
  • People send horses to her for her near-mystical power to bring sick or weak animals back to full fighting form.†   (source)
  • Everything he did was to serve the Rodina (Motherland), a word that had mystical connotations to a Russian and, along with V. I. Lenin, was the Communist party's substitute for a godhead.†   (source)
  • The players and parents who went through that experience speak about it now in near mystical terms.†   (source)
  • The dispatch had been filed from Everest via a coded radio message (to prevent competitors from scooping the Times) by a young correspondent named James Morris who, twenty years later, having earned considerable esteem as a writer, would famously change his gender to female and his Christian name to Jan. As Morris wrote four decades after the momentous climb in Coronation Everest: The First Ascent and the Scoop That Crowned the Queen, It is hard to imagine now the almost mystical delight with which the coincidence of the two happenings [the coronation and the Everest ascent] was greeted in Britain.†   (source)
  • They bring us the Arrakeen mystical fusion whose profound beauty is typified by the stirring music built on the old forms, but stamped with the new awakening.†   (source)
  • "And there is faith here," Ultima added, "a faith in the reason for nature being, evolving, growing—" And there is also the dark, mystical past, I thought, the past of the people who lived here and left their traces in the magic that crops out today.†   (source)
  • Clara waited for her sister-in-law to finish the mystical litanies of Our Fathers and Hail Marys, then used the meetings to repeat the slogans she had heard her mother shout when she chained herself to the gates of Congress.†   (source)
  • She detested the rosary at dusk, the affected table etiquette, the constant criticism of the way she held her silverware, the way she walked in mystical strides like a woman of the streets, the way she dressed as if she were in the circus, and even the rustic way she treated her husband and nursed her child without covering her breast with her mantilla.†   (source)
  • Nothing mystical or crazy, just an idea.†   (source)
  • Close to mystical.†   (source)
  • I discovered the almost mystical attachment that the Xhosa have for cattle, not only as a source of food and wealth, but as a blessing from God and a source of happiness.†   (source)
  • The wind is whipping her hair this way and that so she looks like some kind of mystical sorceress, beautiful, powerful, and scary at the same time.†   (source)
  • I was particularly drawn to one titled Mystical Rites of the Crystal Moon by Fiona.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing years, memory had changed the event from mysterious to mystical.†   (source)
  • For Dick was at least partly inhabited by Perry's mystical-moral apprehensions.†   (source)
  • Supposedly they had access to a mystical world beyond this one, a place of many realms where they could work their magic.†   (source)
  • They'd love the idea of me going around the world, having adventures, seeing marvelous, mystical sights.†   (source)
  • She looked more or less the same, perhaps due to her old chicken bone charms: long reddish curly hair, a faraway but quizzical expression, and a witchy, mystical demeanor.†   (source)
  • It was the comet that always made her seem that much more mystical, different.†   (source)
  • Opening the novel with the suicidal leap of the insurance agent, ending it with the protagonist's confrontational soar into danger, was meant to enclose the mystical but problematic one taken by the Solomon of the title.†   (source)
  • But it doesn't matter what I think, only what they think, the editors in that meeting, the mystical Page One Meeting, where stories are dissected by great minds.†   (source)
  • She felt an almost mystical connection to her boy because, as she was telling everyone, he was in the famous photograph.†   (source)
  • This sounds a lot like Jewish mysticism, where you find God being described as streams of energy, male and female, which pool together into a divine source; or God as the source of all sounds at once.†   (source)
  • Now we're resorting to mystics?†   (source)
  • When Jefferson wrote of various self-appointed seers and mystics who had taken up his time as president, Adams claimed to have had no problem with such people.†   (source)
  • He'd see Rinehart simply as a criminal, my obsession as a fall into pure mysticism ....You'd better hope that is the way he'll see it, I thought.†   (source)
  • In his course from meadows and rangeland to back roads and bullrings, Tom Smith had cultivated an almost mystical communion with horses.†   (source)
  • But it was not the Talmud that he studied, it was the Kabbalah, the books of Jewish mysticism.†   (source)
  • The nurse, like an ecstatic suppliant, arched her neck in front of the mirror remembering the mystical words of her omniscient lord.†   (source)
  • You made it look almost mystical.†   (source)
  • I wandered a few feet away, still within eyeshot of the girls, to look at a " 'mystical" display.†   (source)
  • It went into a third mystical wave of crystallization from which he never recovered.†   (source)
  • Maybe it wasn't just the mystical stones and untouched desert that made Bixby different; maybe it was the spot on the globe itself.†   (source)
  • By saying it often enough and loud enough in places where it was not supposed to be said, the saying of it became both political and mystical and gave birth to a worldwide movement to end violence against women.†   (source)
  • He understood the uneasiness that Bruenor, and many others, felt around the mystical cat.†   (source)
  • Eve supposed it added a kind of mysticism and a unity.†   (source)
  • He knew nothing of the mystical and neurotic.†   (source)
  • They drive me insane in the same way that forced labor made mystics of galley slaves.†   (source)
  • He had never imagined that what she had to offer was merely mysticism, spiritual counseling.†   (source)
  • Anyway, so the pilgrim learns how to pray the way these very mystical persons say you should—I mean he keeps at it till he's perfected it and everything.†   (source)
  • After this experience he might be translated mystically to another plane of existence, to another dimension, just as the redwoods seem to be out of time and out of our ordinary thinking.†   (source)
  • That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until"My God," says a second man, "I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn."†   (source)
  • That day as she traversed the edge of the gardens on her way toward the library she caught a glimpse of something which thereafter dwelled so immovably in her mind that she wondered if it, too, was not at last bound up in a mystical way with Nathan, and the imminence of his appearance in her life.†   (source)
  • And the evidence is hopelessly confused with mysticism-perhaps the prime aberration of the human mind.†   (source)
  • The Lord of Karma made an ancient and mystical sign behind his back.†   (source)
  • The pause grew and became one with the mindless silence of the house until, from the heart of this mystical hush, Miss Editha spoke: "Take me potty."†   (source)
  • I attended Catholic schools with mystical names like the Infant of Prague and the Annunciation, as Dad transferred from Marine base to desolate Marine base, or when we retired to my mother's family home in Atlanta when the nation called my father to war.†   (source)
  • Going in for mysticism?†   (source)
  • She ordered lives about and moved people from one place to another in the town, brought them together or drove them apart, with the mystical and rigorous devotion of a priestess in a story; and she prophesied all the things beforehand.†   (source)
  • No mystic ever saw deeper meaning in common things.   (source)
  • White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism.   (source)
    mysticism = belief in realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
  • The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in.   (source)
    mystically = in a manner beyond scientific understanding
  • 'The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction.   (source)
    mystical = sense of wonder
  • The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney-pots into interminable distance.   (source)
    mystical = inspiring a sense of wonder
  • Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.   (source)
    mystical = belief in realities that are beyond rational understanding
  • If you're curious, you should take my mysticism course.†   (source)
  • He hypnotized me with his mystical vampire powers.†   (source)
  • Her Check Would Be in the Mail — wonderful, mystical, talismanic phrase.†   (source)
  • Mysticism A mystical experience is an experience of merging with God or the "cosmic spirit."†   (source)
  • The grid pointed to one of the world's great mystical locations.†   (source)
  • They have no ability to do experiments, and they're immersed in their mysticism all day long.†   (source)
  • Jewish scholars and mystics are still finding hidden meanings using Atbash.†   (source)
  • I wanted what Thee Mystics had; I wanted the power to hurt somebody.†   (source)
  • Mysticism isn't difficult when you survive each second by surmounting open hostility.†   (source)
  • The Kabbalists— Jewish mystics of Spain and Palestine-believed that super.†   (source)
  • Thee Mystics were a tough up-and-coming group.†   (source)
  • They don't have any problem with irrational mysticism as long as it makes money.†   (source)
  • WEIRDING: idiomatic: that which partakes of the mystical or of witchcraft.†   (source)
  • Mystical trends are found in all the great world religions.†   (source)
  • They seemed to span every mystical tradition, including many she could not even place.†   (source)
  • The answer was found in dusty, forgotten tomes on alchemy, mysticism, magic, and philosophy.†   (source)
  • Garvey was Illusions and Mystics territory.†   (source)
  • Yes, but they have a kind of mystical or magical force.†   (source)
  • In India, especially, there have been strong mystical movements since long before the time of Plato.†   (source)
  • ALAM AL-MITHAL: the mystical world of similitudes where all physical limitations are removed.†   (source)
  • The biggest on the Southside then were Thee Illusions and their allies: Thee Mystics.†   (source)
  • His hips and abdomen were the archways of mystical power.†   (source)
  • People of our own time who do not adhere to a particular religion also tell of mystical experiences.†   (source)
  • In the end, they are both somewhat mystical.†   (source)
  • You can't imagine how mystical and cranky I am now, Hiro.†   (source)
  • It had three sections: NEW AGE, ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES, and MYSTICISM.†   (source)
  • Mystics called it astral projection, and yogis called it out-of-body experience.†   (source)
  • But a mystical experience like this does not always come of itself.†   (source)
  • Peter comes from a family lineage that has always had a passion for all things ancient and mystical.†   (source)
  • Mysticism A mystical experience is an experience of merging with God or the "cosmic spirit."†   (source)
  • He closed his robe and walked to the window, again gazing out at the mystical city before him.†   (source)
  • Even from the air, Washington, D.C., exuded an almost mystical power.†   (source)
  • And they longed for distant cultures like the Orient with its mysticism.†   (source)
  • It's called the Almas Shrine Temple, and it's the headquarters of a mystical order.†   (source)
  • A mystical experience can also have ethical significance.†   (source)
  • "Thirty-three," Katherine said, "is a sacred number in many mystical traditions."†   (source)
  • This is the missing link between modern science and ancient mysticism.†   (source)
  • He had a hard time understanding any relation between ancient mysticism and national security.†   (source)
  • There is a reason that Jewish mystics and Kabbalists pore over the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • It's a symbol of man's mystical connection to God.†   (source)
  • It was the message of all the great mystical teachers.†   (source)
  • Even so, the old man's overt passion for mystical forces reminded Katherine of her brother.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh was familiar with magic squares—kameas, as the early mystics called them.†   (source)
  • When I was a young man, the pyramid was given to me with the promise that it hid mystical secrets.†   (source)
  • For centuries, the Hand of the Mysteries served as a mystical summons.†   (source)
  • Warren, do you believe this secret mystical staircase into the earth exists?†   (source)
  • Nowhere was the church's mystical past more evident than at her epicenter.†   (source)
  • Here all men were equals, sworn brothers sharing a mystical bond.†   (source)
  • Iron from heaven, as the early mystics called it.†   (source)
  • You're saying the early mystics knew their universe had ten dimensions?†   (source)
  • It's a very common metaphor—a mystical portal through which one must travel to become enlightened.†   (source)
  • Early mystics called it the Eye of God and it's the origin of the All-Seeing Eye on the Great Seal.†   (source)
  • Langdon approached, looking like a man who'd endured some kind of mystical initiation.†   (source)
  • "Peter tells me," Galloway said, "that your field of study is a kind of modern mystical science?"†   (source)
  • As the sun began to set, the tent took on a mystical glow.†   (source)
  • His mother s whispers of mysticism had come alive to him these last few weeks.†   (source)
  • He says maybe one is the mystical twin of the other.†   (source)
  • He had heard the mystics speak like this.†   (source)
  • A quest requires a prophecy, a mystical poem to guide us!†   (source)
  • The Outer Banks, he thought, were both strange and mystical.†   (source)
  • "A mystical sect of early Christians, more pagan than Christian, really," Miss McCleethy answers.†   (source)
  • His reward, say the mystics of spirit, will be given to him beyond the grave.†   (source)
  • Which has a really tremendous, mystical effect on your whole outlook.†   (source)
  • There's a principle in Jewish mysticism called tikkun olam," he said.†   (source)
  • "Mystics can cast spells," said Miss Boon simply.†   (source)
  • Outside the Manse, Mystics had chased off the rain.†   (source)
  • You want to pitch me as some kind of mystical prophet?†   (source)
  • They would have been mystics and healers, women who worked with herbs and delivered babies.†   (source)
  • Sarah took command of an entire company while Lucia and Cynthia served as the battalion's Mystics.†   (source)
  • Not all mystical creatures are aligned with the Enemy.†   (source)
  • Circles, chevrons, arrows, birds, mucho mystical drivel, and I was trying to absorb it all.†   (source)
  • I can make a junkyard look mystical with the right lighting.†   (source)
  • Hell, Miss Boon could do that in five minutes with a bit of Mystics.†   (source)
  • Tell Mina or my grandfather to help if the builders or Mystics are overtaxed.†   (source)
  • From its start, this country was a threat to the ancient rule of mystics.†   (source)
  • Mystics and scholars, Agents and teachers all sprang to their feet and roared their support.†   (source)
  • What don't I miss?" said the Mystics instructor with a sigh.†   (source)
  • His Mystics instructor had held up well since Ms.†   (source)
  • You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social.†   (source)
  • Their Mystics instructor was walking very quickly toward them, her face white with anger.†   (source)
  • Even before Astaroth's edicts, most Mystics considered summoning taboo," he said.†   (source)
  • Isn't that the whole point of studying mystics and combat and all the rest?†   (source)
  • She turned to him as she approached the Mystics classroom.†   (source)
  • "Of course," said the young Mystics instructor, swallowing hard and gazing across the river.†   (source)
  • Clutching the pinlegs, David nodded and hurried out, joining the rapid exodus of Agents and Mystics.†   (source)
  • Make no mistake about the character of mystics.†   (source)
  • Again he was frozen in midair, this time by the combined efforts of the three powerful Mystics.†   (source)
  • His reward, say the mystics of muscle, will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.†   (source)
  • The idea that Max would have to care for something mystical made him very nervous.†   (source)
  • Prusias waited expectantly while Rowan's Mystics and Agents glanced anxiously at one another.†   (source)
  • "And how are the Mystics in your battalion?" inquired David, casually examining his fingernails.†   (source)
  • "Promise me, David," repeated their Mystics teacher, tapping a hard nail on the table.†   (source)
  • We have an exam tomorrow and they want to be Mystics, not Agents like yours truly.†   (source)
  • Richter, the senior faculty, several Mystics, and a score of Agents.†   (source)
  • The mystics of spirit curse matter, the mystics of muscle curse profit.†   (source)
  • You will find that some branches of Mystics come naturally, while others are inaccessible to you.†   (source)
  • They need little food or sleep and are highly resistant to trickery and Mystics.†   (source)
  • How had a shipwrecked orphan come to claim Solas's Gwydion Chair of Mystics by the age of twenty?†   (source)
  • The mystics of muscle call it 'the future,' which consists of denying the present.†   (source)
  • "Heaven help you in Mystics!" he exclaimed.†   (source)
  • A witch or something else might follow any trail that Mystics leave behind.†   (source)
  • Max bolted upright, knocking the Mystics text off his bed onto the floor.†   (source)
  • Max glanced at Miss Boon, but his Mystics instructor stood rigid.†   (source)
  • Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know?†   (source)
  • And how many Mystics scattered among that number?†   (source)
  • At Max's knock, one of the Mystics glanced up, did a double take, and hurried over to open the door.†   (source)
  • It was one or the other: America or mystics.†   (source)
  • We're going to use Mystics to disguise ourselves," he explained to them.†   (source)
  • Their section had Mystics next, and everyone seemed eager to see what it was all about.†   (source)
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