How to Use occultism in a Sentence

occultism

noun

• Like most things in John Constantine's world, K-Mag comes complete with a sinister dose of occultism in his own right.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2019
• By the 1990s, Dungeons & Dragons had become wrapped up in the Satanic Panic — railed against by the religious right and seen to be a gateway drug of sorts into occultism.
  — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2022
• This year, however, Halloween may actually get a little too spooky: The moon in Pisces highlights your eighth house, the area of your chart that governs death, occultism, and things that go bump in the night.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 Oct. 2017
• The occultism is omnipresent, and the movie is less interested in scaring the pants off of you than in constantly nudging you about how near to your own reality this whole scenario seems to be.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
• Myths of Nazi occultism had a basis in the Nazi's short-lived ventures in archaeology and experimental missile and plane projects.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2017
• The items acquired by the museum included a walnut table, a Burmese chest in which Yeats stored manuscripts, a series of Japanese masks, and a collection of objects that show the influence of occultism and spiritualism on Yeats’s work.
  — Anna Codrea-Rado, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• By 1960, anyway, the Surrealists were fishing in the murky waters of occultism, and the scientifically minded Oulipians had more than one reason to want to distance themselves.
  — Luc Sante, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• Some weird ones, like occultism, shamanism, and various Eastern spiritual paths.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• The Harry Potter series, with its incantations and wizardry, has also come under fire (and brimstone) for ostensibly promoting occultism.
  — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2016
• Cult leader and convicted killer Charles Manson, who died on Sunday (Nov. 19) at the age of 83, built his own perverse mythology upon a foundation of occultism, race war conspiracy theories and, ultimately, murder.
  — Bryan Rolli, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2017
• Their approach has also ruffled feathers – members of the community have written complaints to local authorities voicing concern that their approach promotes occultism.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
• Cotterill has a gift for tempering bad stuff — specifically, the baffling and chaotic political climate of communism circa 1980 — with gently ironic humor and frequent doses of slightly kooky occultism.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
• With their portal-like, sculptural presence and ghostly images, the chic works of this rarely exhibited suite seductively conjure the menacing undercurrent of both nineteenth-century occultism and contemporary mass-media enchantment.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024