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Examples
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It's like a kind of semireligious experience for the band, and I think for the audience, too. "
Hecklerspray 2009
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"I think that the Grimms' chief complaint about the 'Knaben Wunderhorn' collection was that Brentano, in particular, often invested the old poetry with a moralistic, even semireligious tone."
Parsing Mahler's Poetic Songs Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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The keepership was semireligious, being connected so deeply with the Ravager.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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The keepership was semireligious, being connected so deeply with the Ravager.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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The keepership was semireligious, being connected so deeply with the Ravager.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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After dinner, theatrical representations of a semireligious nature would amuse and instruct young and old.
The Social Order Before and After the Protestant Reformation 2007
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My paradise is wonderful; it's full of good music; it's full of love and happy living; it's full of "hope on the morrow," as my semireligious dad used to chortle a lot.
SOS The Daily Growler 2006
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Politics required dangerous and uncontrollable semireligious value positing, and Weber was witnessing a struggle of the gods for possession of man and society, the results of which were unpredictable.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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Politics required dangerous and uncontrollable semireligious value positing, and Weber was witnessing a struggle of the gods for possession of man and society, the results of which were unpredictable.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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There was a song floating around at that time that had been a country hit for Red Foley on Decca, and for Kitty Kallen and Richard Hayes on Mercury, a semireligious tune called “Our Lady of Fatima.”
The Good Life Tony Bennett 1998
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