Each has been tempted by an excess of otherworldliness or this-worldliness, by universalism or tribalism, by the spirit or by the flesh. |
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If Westerners expect Tibetans to be steeped in mysticism and otherworldliness, the Dorjee-Norbu team wreck the mold. |
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Carroll agrees that the main benefit is in its very oddity, even its otherworldliness. |
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Certainly, Iceland's seething mountains contribute to this sense of otherworldliness. |
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In his time the religious energy and zeal were flowing away from the empirical world into the desert of otherworldliness, asceticism and renunciation. |
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No doubt Chatwin's elevated sense of otherworldliness originated partly in embarrassment over his undistinguished background. |
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Bergman moves the entire sequence from gothic, candle-illuminated lighting to electric, reflecting both the otherworldliness of the atmosphere and its unbeautiful blandness. |
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His book is all preface and no body. Then there is his otherworldliness. |
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As these are home recordings, the sound quality is lousy, but that only adds to the set's otherworldliness. |
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Once McEwan loses his grip of the book's otherworldliness and dream-like brilliance, there's only one to way to go. |
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Perhaps most important in Mueller's transit toward the immaterial is the luxuriant otherworldliness of his color. |
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Equally characteristic was otherworldliness bordering on fantasy. |
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The attenuation of city life in most of northern and western Europe was accompanied by provincial separatism, economic isolation, and religious otherworldliness. |
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But somehow Holland's characters are protected from scrapes and bruises by their otherworldliness. |
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As they enter the bank, the decision to make use of 3D for the final episode seems a wise one, as puffs of smoke and blurred figures are used to create a sense of otherworldliness. |
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He was raised on tales such as the legend of Llyn y Fan Fach, and much of his work has a hazy otherworldliness that links to his love of these stories. |
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