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Thus, the semantic aspects of the text are reduced in favor of a mystical event: cleaving to the divinity found within the sounds related to the liturgical or biblical texts on the one hand, and overlaid by the magical aspects involved in the fact that a supernal power is imagined to be inherent within, or attracted by the Hasidic masters, within the pronounced letters.

The effect of the shimmering walls reflecting the blazing oil lamps encircling the tebah (pulpit) suffuses the dainty prayer hall with a light that borders upon the supernal. All around the upper half of the walls are parokhet curtains made from deceased Cochin women's festive sarongs, in green, gold, blue, red, and white embroidered silks.

In our own age, however, acutely aware of the ways religious sentiment can fuel and legitimate violence, reference to supernal rage seems particularly liable to abuse.

He made no pretence of allegory; his wine was the veritable juice of the grape; his beauties were no divine harmonies, but consisted of flesh and blood; his gardens were not the haunts of houris, but plots of earthly flowers; he preferred the tavern to the temple; and as his meditations, though sufficing to undermine his belief in the false religion in which he had been nurtured, had failed to find any anchorage of supernal truth, he believed only in the visible and the tangible, and ridiculed those who believed in anything else.

"My grandfather from the supernal world came to me at night," she said, "and put me in a big sack, then fled with me and brought me here."

3 Park Chan-wook, Lady Vengeance The final, supernal installment in South Korean director Park Chan-wook's "revenge trilogy" is possibly the best film I've seen in the last five years.

In his major essays on style, "The Poetic Principle" (1848) and "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846), Poe mimics the voice of a traditional Continental Enlightenment aesthete when he extols "supernal beauty," rational methods of composition, and the equivalencies between morality and taste.

Instead of wiping out the race of men, He gave them his Ten Commandments, the first doctrinal instance of supernal rules of behavior, from which our concept of the sins derives.

He did not shrink from anthropomorphism, but rather he preserved the concrete in Scripture, cherished imaginative meanings, added metaphorical embellishments, and created images of the supernal world.

Judaism remains throughout supernal. But in historical time Christians increasingly take over the place of Jews.

Chesterton, Journalist," explains how it is that the man who was best known for his supernal speculations on the nature of man, the cosmos, and God, and who was a jack of all trades and master of all--literature, theology, philosophy, poetry, detective stories, humor, science, literary criticism, politics, apologetics, economics, history, biography, travel--could identify himself in the end as merely a journalist.

An excellent disc showcasing VCB soloists from the 1970s and '80s, led by the supernal boy soprano Peter Jelosits.

Right away, we have established one of the thematic dyads that will inform this film -- the celestial and terrestrial, the supernal and the everyday.

We read that the NYS poets' pleasure would have been diminished if any of them "felt that the others' approbation were automatic." Lehman makes the common error of using paraphrasing to mean twisting someone else's phrase around for effect; he often misuses supernal for something like sublime, and he subliterately employs critique as a verb.

The absence of epic machinery and supernal imagery is the feature of Joseph Andrews that earned its fame as a 'comic Epic-Poem in Prose' in which the trappings of the epic formula have been superseded by realistic plot, human foibles, and prose narrative.