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Historically, it has ranged from virulently reactionary to quietistic.

Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

Like most poetry of all kinds arising out of our cultural and historical moment, avant-garde poetry is a product of the Academy, is read by almost no one but once and future members of the Academy, and is generally “quietistic” in the extreme.

By the Letters : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

One suspects Professor Blackburn would deplore any such retreat into quietistic bliss, and would instead admonish us with the title of another of his books: Think.

Excellent On-Line Essays on ID-related Topics Denyse O 2005

The strictly quietistic inward-looking church fails to affirm

The Next Lent Sermon Adam Tierney-Eliot 2005

The strictly quietistic inward-looking church fails to affirm

Archive 2005-03-01 Adam Tierney-Eliot 2005

The passive, quietistic church that tries to be independent of the political controversies of the day.

Philocrites: Quietistic, idolatrous, or prophetic churches. 2005

The passive, quietistic church that tries to be independent of the political controversies of the day.

Philocrites: March 2005 Archives 2005

The Alastor volume of poetry, published in early 1816, issued from this conflicted period of Shelley's life, and many readers have judged its politics as a quietistic contrast to the outspoken radicalism of Queen Mab.

_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999

Its tone is quietistic, as might readily be conjectured, but it is the calm of serene reflection, not of indifference.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

It is indeed only in short passages that Vaughan achieves adequate imaginative vision and utterance, but the spirit of these passages is diffused through his religious verse, more quietistic, less practical, in spirit than Herbert's.

Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921