otherworldliness

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Her works are gathering acclaim in the UK film and theater industries, attracting attention for their atmospheric otherworldliness which lends itself brilliantly to imaginative storytelling.

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  1. The character of being otherworldly; a disposition to act in this life with reference to another or future world; conduct of life prompted by a hope of heaven. And yet not religion conceived as an affair of the private conscience, not the yearning and the search for the pearl of great price, not an increased predominance of otherworldliness, but the instinct of national freedom, and the determination to have nothing in religion that should impair it. Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 764.
  2. Reference to or insistence upon the existence of another world beyond the present; ideality; spirituality; the quality of being visionary. Its [the church's] other-worldliness, while upholding an ideal before men's eyes, had the disadvantage of discrediting the real. G. H. Lewes, Hist. Philos., II. 5.

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  • His performance certainly changed the way Americans thought about autism, and his portrayal was uncanny in its uncompromising otherworldliness, managing to seem honest and even funny without ever trying to be likable or sympathetic. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Her works are gathering acclaim in the UK film and theater industries, attracting attention for their atmospheric otherworldliness which lends itself brilliantly to imaginative storytelling. —  Cool Hunting
  • The Atlantic Monthly magazine and she was a "Nobody," surely testifies to her naïveté, her "recluse of Amherst" otherworldliness. —  Phawker
  • As a human (although a future one) instead of a Gallifreyan (to use a term not yet invented in the show), she has a more down-to-earth quality than the otherworldliness that Susan projected. —  DVD Times
  • While I miss the mutant mayhem and otherworldliness of his previous offerings, what I really long for are those cheap foam costumes and crappy sets. —  www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly
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