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(adjective) supernatural mysterious / (adjective) filled with a sense of the presence of divinity; holy / (adjective) appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense; spiritual

Highlighted phrases

numinous


Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors


There was no call to fly in New York journalists only to demo a product already numinous at no cost.

—p.307 Money (307) by Keith Gessen
notable
3 years, 6 months ago


Rembrandt was not alone in the Dutch Golden Age in depicting the landscape with fidelity to observed detail while at the same time imbuing it with the pervasive presence of the numinous

—p.62 Arbos (59) by Teju Cole
notable
2 years, 4 months ago


this is a numinous work of art if i ever painted one, he said, this painting is extremely spooky it's like the portrait of dorian gray or something it frightens the living shit out of me

—p.149 by Mark Leyner
notable
2 months, 1 week ago


For moral and philosophical absolutes sounded a bit like my beloved orchids - numinous, hard to find, known only to a chosen few.

—p.8 Trotsky and the Wild Orchids (3) by Richard M. Rorty
uncertain
6 years, 7 months ago


from a systematic approach to the numinous, this bleaker apophasis follows

—p.136 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
uncertain
5 years, 4 months ago


the opposition between the quotidian and the numinous

—p.30 The Weird (14) by Mark Fisher
notable
4 years, 4 months ago


Numinous in this case really being some inarticulate feeling that rose up in her with that quality of light, which of course is the old image of the relationship to the divine

—p.301 Notes on Poetry and Spirituality (291) by Robert Hass
notable
4 years, 3 months ago

you can actually watch, as the words are laid down on the page, the process from which the perception of the thing gets born into its numinous quality as a word

—p.56 George Oppen: His Art (52) by Robert Hass
notable
4 years, 3 months ago