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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
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While this town certainly feels quaint, its worldly dishes, celebrated galleries, and specialty shops attract visitors in the South and beyond.—
Brennan Long,
Southern Living,
11 July 2025
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Concluding Thought Since a personal guarantee is a pledge of all one's worldly non-exempt assets to back the underlying loan, a personal guarantee is basically a financial noose that one puts their head into and then waits to see if the trapdoor opens.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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The moon is not the only thing that can shorten earthly days.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
9 July 2025
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For those in the New Apostolic Reformation, these flags symbolize the belief that when all earthly authority fails, people have the right to appeal directly to God’s authority to justify resistance.—
Art Jipson,
The Conversation,
8 July 2025
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Each issue centers around the bonds that women form with each other, and in this case, forged vis-à-vis a carnal and violent bloodbath.—
Tiffany Leigh,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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Modern filmmaking gets no better than Hernández’s balance of carnal and mundane conduct — Marco and Orlando’s physical yearning matches their career ambitions.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 Apr. 2025
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Peter is the most outwardly hostile and simultaneously most recognizably earthbound of the film’s three brothers.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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Saitama Prefecture, Japan August is great for: an earthbound alternative to the Milky Way.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
26 May 2025
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Smiling, eye contact and small talk should be kept to a minimum and be strictly mundane.—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
12 July 2025
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There will, of course, be speculation that the Microsoft Outlook outage is cyberattack related, but the reality is likely to be more mundane.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Murderbot has been realized in fleshly form in the sculpted body of Alexander Skarsgård, on the new Apple TV+ series of the same name.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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That was the thing about Succession — its characters were monstrous, but the show never lost sight of their fleshly fallibility, their doubts and vulnerabilities.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
31 May 2025
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The film makes the prisoners’ civil-rights violations explicit as these vulnerable characters are dropped into legal and temporal limbo and are denied the right of due process, an ongoing conversation in light of recent deportations.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
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But there’s nothing average about MULA, and their new album, ETERNA, blasts these alchemic blends with darkwave, shattering temporal constructs of nostalgia and futurism with a tropi-goth sound for all seasons.—
Richard Villegas,
Rolling Stone,
7 July 2025
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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 23 Jul. 2025.
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