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  • But, as we've seen in a prologue, the house itself has a dark history that seems to be vaguely occultish.

    Marshall Fine: Review: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Marshall Fine 2011

  • A few of the melted clocks, Giger-esque mirrors, and occultish sculptures on sale at Julien Hatswell's website.

    Warped clocks, mirrors, and sculptures by Julien Hatswell 2010

  • Juliet Aster trained as a painter before studying flamenco, and her stage work veers between the darkly occultish and the absurd.

    Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster 2010

  • Langdon joins forces with French cryptologist 'Sophie Neveu' (Audrey Tautou) and learns the late curator was involved in the 'Priory of Sion', an occultish secret society.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Michael Stevens 2006

  • Because surely there's something more transcendent when one is lit with the creative primordial forces of alien landscapes, your entire body aglow with abstracted asteroid impact craters, volcanic ejecta and ancient river channels, instead of dubious hagiography and occultish propaganda.

    Astrogeology 2006

  • Because surely there's something more transcendent when one is lit with the creative primordial forces of alien landscapes, your entire body aglow with abstracted asteroid impact craters, volcanic ejecta and ancient river channels, instead of dubious hagiography and occultish propaganda.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • I tink caws silleh peepuls wut messed wiff Bibul an re-rote it too dere satisfakshun had low upinyun ub cats and wuz superstishus or tot dey wuz occultish?

    Xmas story usually omits giant cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • And, to my pleasant surprise, he is the director of the acid-trippy, occultish, disturbing-image-laden Samurai Resurrection (recently remade), which I have on VHS because Sonny Chiba starred in it.

    Archive 2005-10-01 KaneCitizen 2005

  • This may have been crazy and borderline occultish, but it was not cruel and humane, especially since it was her wishes the family was trying to meet.

    Real Cincinnati Psycho: Dead Body Kept Home 2 1/2 Years Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • I ran across the phrase "witches' thunder" in a novel in a context that made it seem likely to be a theatrical term for something specific to the props department, rather than an occultish reference.

    languagehat.com: KAPELYE AND KUCSMA. 2005

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