otherworldliness
IPA: ˈʌðɝwˈɝɫdɫinʌs
noun
- The quality of being otherworldly
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Examples of "otherworldliness" in Sentences
- My teeth chattered, not from the weather, but from the cold, otherworldliness of the scene.
- I guess the same content of otherworldliness is treated totally differently depending on who you are.
- The composer's only opera, "Pelléas et Mélisande," is indeed a triumph of hermeticism and otherworldliness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols: A brilliantly written little assault on Platonic otherworldliness in all itsforms
- His otherworldliness has long relegated him to the role of a "rather wimpish junior partner" to the more robust figure of William Morris in the Arts and Crafts movement.
- The intellectual and moral stains of the world's religions -- the misogyny, otherworldliness, narcissism, and illogic -- are so ugly and indelible as to render all religious language suspect.
- His feet are planted on earth and no kind of otherworldliness shall be allowed to contaminate his mind or divert him from the inevitable process of history which is shaping the destiny of the world with its "iron necessity."
- However, the historical record makes clear that instead of passive acceptance rooted in “otherworldliness,” many black clergy encouraged their parishioners to participate in the marches, protests, and sit-ins of the civil rights era.
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