quasi-spiritual

And although their songs are often About Stuff, U2 patented this stubbornly pervasive tone of wafty, inchoate, non-specific, quasi-spiritual yearning that has come to typify big stadium acts.

Are U2 bad for Glastonbury? 2011

And although their songs are often About Stuff, U2 patented this stubbornly pervasive tone of wafty, inchoate, non-specific, quasi-spiritual yearning that has come to typify big stadium acts.

Are U2 bad for Glastonbury? 2011

If we notice simply the theosophical, or alchemical or quasi-spiritual components of Schelling and Schubert's speculation, we may be led to think of Romantic theories of the psyche simply as stalled acts of secularisation, which still look for a spiritualised or idealised metaphysics of the person under the rubric of the psyche.

Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul 2008

His reference to quantum theory is apt, as there is a curious parallel between what's taking place on Twitter (and other similar platforms) and quantum entanglement, that bizarre and quasi-spiritual correlation between remote particles, a complementariness that defies our conception of time and space.

Peter Daou: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding 2009

As Shelley describes his sale in hushed, quasi-spiritual tones, the camera drifts airily backward, forsaking the back-and-forth cutting on dialogue to take in the whole scene in the office, with a low angle shot that increasingly isolates the two salesmen in the center of this big empty space.

Glengarry Glen Ross Ed Howard 2009

Remember that this blog is my attempt to externalize my thought patterns, a sort of internet quasi-spiritual autolysis.

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Forbidden Kingdom" Steven Barnes 2008

Remember that this blog is my attempt to externalize my thought patterns, a sort of internet quasi-spiritual autolysis.

Archive 2008-04-01 Steven Barnes 2008

What you mostly hear, on tracks ranging from the quasi-spiritual love song "Oh, Mary" to the infectious pop number "Save Me a Saturday Night," is the heart and mind of Neil Diamond -- sometimes simple and upbeat ( "It's not about you/It's not about me/Love is all about We"), sometimes dark and intense ( "This crazy life around me confuses and confounds me/But it's all the life I've got left before I die").

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH 2007

It was inevitable that the old idea of purification should revive with the name, it was felt to be a burning of other than material encumbrances, innumerable quasi-spiritual things, deeds, documents, debts, vindictive records, went up on those great flares.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

He got the usual responses: an early love of reading; the pleasure of getting lost in alternate worlds; a "love for the free play of ideas"; a quasi-spiritual sense of meaningfulness; attraction to the "cultural aura" of the bohemian artist; a "desire for wisdom."

Archive 2006-07-01 Flavia 2006