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

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

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

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

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

the opposition between the quotidian and the numinous

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

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