semi-mystical

Mr. Lentini criticized the marshal 's "semi-mystical testimony," at one point telling the court, "It' s about as wrong as it can be. "

Executed Man Gets a New Day in Court Leslie Eaton 2010

The painters were clearly inspired by the special clarity of the local light, something you hear a lot of semi-mystical talk about here.

The Other Tuscany Richard Nalley 2010

Saltz wants to wrest art away from what he calls "neo-Cartesians," those "dogmatists, ideologues, academics, and theorists who demonize and belittle art as a gratuitous, semi-mystical, merely beautiful, purely formal amusement."

Politics and Literature 2007

Shilpa Agarwal managed to make the Bombay I know personally into an exotic & semi-mystical place to which even I'm curious to visit.

Mihir’s Top Reads of 2009 Liviu 2009

This is a noble enough ambition, but, unfortunately, Saltz's own language only gives the neo-Cartesians additional reasons to dismiss the "semi-mystical" descriptions of art that too often accompany the claim that art is experience rather than a means of acquiring knowledge.

Politics and Literature 2007

Shilpa Agarwal managed to make the Bombay I know personally into an exotic & semi-mystical place to which even I'm curious to visit.

Archive 2009-12-01 Liviu 2009

As most people are aware, the science we now know as chemistry grew out of what was once alchemy, a semi-mystical method of arsing about with various substances.

The Periodic Table David Hadley 2009

In the case of the Artivist Coalition events, artists were deployed as semi-mystical healers, responsible for shining a light on matters that should be the purview of social workers and politicians.

Does Art as Social Justice Lead to the Artist as Unpaid Social Worker? 2009

As most people are aware, the science we now know as chemistry grew out of what was once alchemy, a semi-mystical method of arsing about with various substances.

Archive 2009-05-01 David Hadley 2009

That's because he's stripped away the semi-mystical trappings of many guides, to concentrate on what you need to do to set about creating prose fiction.

Archive 2008-04-01 Tim Stretton 2008