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Recent Examples of unspiritual
When the 1990s brought an emphasis on art being viewed as unspiritual, unpoetical, socioeconomic evidence, the perspective on Cole changed.
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Holland Cotter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Holland Cotter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspiritual
Adjective
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Don’t let your worldly endeavors pull you away from the close-to-home matters at hand.—
Nina Kahn,
StyleCaster,
24 Mar. 2025
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Especially when Cadfael’s worldly wisdom and endless curiosity puts him at odds with his stricter brethren, including the authoritarian Prior Robert (Michael Culver) and his deliciously weasely henchman Brother Jerome (Julian Firth).—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Williams and Wilmore and their crewmates exited Dragon, taking their first breaths of earthly air in months.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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That final choice encapsulates Colquhoun’s lack of interest in earthly fame.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Mister Romantic may be an equal-opportunity flirt, but there’s no carnal undercurrent to his desires.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Rolling Stone,
15 Mar. 2025
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Liñán fills 90 electrifying minutes laying bare the power of fantasy, of physical desire between men, of passions both carnal and emotional.—
Helena Alonso Paisley,
Miami Herald,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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While celestial distractions are never hard to come by on clear evenings, meteor showers offer a different kind of temptation that encourages investment in a good blanket or chair and permission to unplug from earthbound commitments.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Mar. 2025
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Kate Mara, who was actually earthbound in The Martian, this time gets the Matt Damon role of an astronaut, Sam Walker, returning to Earth after a very long time in isolation in outer space.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The missing leaders come from the messy middle—those steadfast, seasoned managers navigating between visionary ambitions and everyday mundane execution—who determine if organizational change succeeds or fails.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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So people are usually surprised to see Rahma capturing footage on the side, sometimes of a guest, the setup, or the mundane bits in between.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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What the world desires, in short, is a glimpse of a video game, which no one will be able to play until 2025—a game that builds an entire alternative world, glowing with the promise of violence and other fleshly thrills.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2023
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But the album offers more than deliciously hedonistic thrills: Thrusting us into their operatic world, this Brooklyn band makes peace with their dark memories and fleshly desires.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
6 Dec. 2023
Adjective
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Taking a broader temporal view of the crypto industry's evolution, of the over 24,000 cryptocurrencies listed on CoinGecko since 2014 to the end of 2023, over 50% have died.—
Max (Chong) Li,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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From there on out, the film takes a couple of major swings in the realm of its timeline — a strange temporal unfurling — as well as the seeming motives behind A.J. and Isaac’s arrival, and Camille’s readiness to host them alongside a friend who clearly needs some alone time.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Our attention plunges in while the body remains firmly rooted in the sublunary world.—
Meghan O'Gieblyn,
WIRED,
16 Aug. 2023
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Planets and stars, eclipses and conjunctions would seem to have no direct effect on our lives, unlike the mundane and sublunary antics of our fellow humans.—
Alison Gopnik,
WSJ,
25 Aug. 2022
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“Unspiritual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspiritual. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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