| 单词 | numinous |
| 例句 | As is usually the case, people with special abilities emerged to assist travelers through the portal to the numinous. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The landscape has an intricate numinous geography; it is charged with meaning that must be respected and heeded. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Risley continues her disconcerting deconstruction of perceived gender and its relationship to perceived power, especially in respect to numinous imagery,” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d only heard about it from Erastis, who described it in numinous terms, as if the Book were made out of light and magic instead of paper and thread. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z For Sjon, the world is governed by numinous forces that we can only dimly observe, and which we have little language to understand. An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s numinous, if I can use that word.” David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The curtains of coloured light streaming from the central tower instil a genuine sense of the numinous; yet the imperatives of keeping 300-plus community performers milling among the pillars inevitably leads to some congestion. Chester Mystery Plays – review 2013-07-02T14:36:00Z The book is fervently, strangely alive, and, like many peculiar, numinous things, “The Peregrine” has its circle of admirers. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The work he turned in for class was often untethered, a beautiful little wreck on its way to being numinous. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Yet if McGregor irradiated the everyday into something numinous, Reynolds risks slowing the narrative to a crawl. The World Was All Before Them by Matthew Reynolds – review 2013-01-11T20:00:05Z Like Ballard’s other dystopian novels from the early ‘70s, including “Crash” and “Concrete Island” and “The Atrocity Exhibition,” “High-Rise” takes place in a numinous or notional suburban England where technological progress collides with social degeneration. Depravity, class war and the 1 percent: Tom Hiddleston shines in brilliant dystopian fable “High-Rise” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z As Mr. Oliver says “Lowe’s,” that unromantic home improvement store acquires a numinous glow, as do the words Build It Green, the name of a house-fixtures salvage store in Queens, N.Y. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The effect was fitting, evoking simultaneously O’Connor’s keen sense of the ominous, the numinous, and the ironic. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan Memorial 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Their evocative range is that vast, seeming to take in some kind of numinous wholeness. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z Typically it’s a numinous experience; the work speaks to me. ‘Love at First Sight’ Inspired This African Art Collection 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z These are such curious images, earthy but numinous, which can also be said of paintings by Rembrandt when he’s in a soulful mood. Art Review: New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800, at the Met 2013-05-23T22:47:11Z But in plays like “Shining City” and “The Night Alive,” Mr. McPherson has shown a mystical appreciation of music as an expression of the numinous in life. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Within six, he’d been nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the numinous child in “The Sixth Sense,” popularizing the gloomy catchphrase “I see dead people.” How Haley Joel Osment Survived Being a Child Star 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Gradually, we became aware of voices in distant corners, a numinous drone that slowly became more focused. Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble 2010-10-06T21:30:00Z Simon McBurney’s hypnotic, sui generis performance piece — which recreates an American photographer’s numinous visit to the Amazon River Basin — hooks its audience by the ears. Gifts for the Discerning Theater Fan 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z France Gustave Flaubert A Sentimental Education lcoats This novel glitters with Flaubert's numinous narrative ease - here the depth, there the irony, nuanced insight one moment, unabashed moral observation the next. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z It would be easy to wax poetic about “numinous passages to other spheres,” which is what a portal provides. Keith Sonnier's neon drawings open portals to another place 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Fowler instead tries to imbue his work with a numinous quality reflective of the subject’s work and aesthetic. ‘Electro-Pythagorus’ Review: An Experimental Look at an Innovator 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The play has encouraged him to take more notice of the numinous in everyday life. At 77, He Gets to Woo Mary-Louise Parker 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z In Hermann Hesse’s book “Siddhartha,” from 1922, the river is a mirror that reflects or reveals challenging truths—a numinous and unflinching soothsayer. Lost in America with Hiss Golden Messenger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Crocheted birds on the lacy fabric were caught momentarily in flight, and the painting is uncanny in its evocation of a numinous, fleeting instant of motion. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in Of the many noises that emanate from Mr. Murfi, the one that you are likely to keep hearing long after the play is over is the numinous whooshing of a wind. Review: A One-Man Funeral With Many Lives in ‘I Hear You and Rejoice’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z I'm always referred to as being interested in the numinous, the immanent, those kinds of words. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z Egan wields a suspicion of the relics he encounters on his pilgrimage, until a potentially numinous experience at the crypt of St. Lucia Filippini challenges his idea of what might be possible. Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z What they made me think of, instead, was the 19th century, and in particular the paintings of Winslow Homer, who depicted the sea often, giving it a numinous quality that could be dangerous or comradely. Beauty in the Aftermath 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Twist, the wizard puppeteer who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship last week, has a numinous touch that transforms the material — cloth, wire, plastic — into the fantastical, summoning otherworldly creations spiced with wicked worldliness. Review: In ‘Sisters’ Follies,’ Basil Twist Conjures Two Avant-Garde 1915 Benefactors 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z And this, too, was a play that memorably made room for the numinous, the inexplicable. Off Broadway’s Season Shook Up Norms of Life and Theater 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z This is a small town in a spiritually quirky setting — idyllic, idealistic, numinous and, well, odd. Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z In book after book, his characters fall through constructed surfaces and constructed selves into deeper, more terrifying but also more numinous realities. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z From the angle of religious belief, this is simply the numinous in action. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z The more they try to stay calm and translate what they are seeing in rational terms, the more our own excitement and sense of the numinous grows. Back to the Hugos: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke 2011-02-10T15:32:31Z Her observation of the fragility and loveliness of daily life is so sharp and her commentary so droll, trenchant and precise that the modest world she describes becomes almost numinous. Review | ‘Brood,’ a quiet meditation on the small stuff, makes for a perfect pandemic read 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Not surprisingly, then, it’s when the characters sing that “Girl” acquires the numinous glow associated with Mr. McPherson’s plays. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z It's as if something numinous, something following a dream-logic of its own, is directing or at least influencing the action. The Yips by Nicola Barker - review 2012-07-18T07:00:03Z The mundane is mystified and afforded an almost numinous aura. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The Marble Faun’s sculpture, similarly, at once rough and ornate, leaves plenty of room for viewers to appreciate the stone’s own numinous warmth. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z In fact, there's a numinous wildness in Tavener's stratospheric writing for the solo cello, and the blazing intensity of the textures he finds from the string orchestra. A guide to John Tavener's music 2013-02-19T16:15:03Z His desire is to show the ever-so-slightly numinous in the ordinary. Review: Back in Black, in a White Snowscape, in ‘La Mélancolie des dragons’ 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Most significant of all, perhaps, was the numinous quality that Gatti brought to the Lux Aeterna, which lingered in the memory long after the work's close. Philharmonia/Gatti – review 2013-04-21T15:09:37Z Here a pinkish-orange pathway, rendered as a pool of overlapping strokes, lifts up from the ground just enough to look like an abstract shape without quite losing its numinous connection to the natural world. From Alexei Jawlensky, Abstract Faces at Full Intensity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “The Night Alive” might register as a sitcom uncomfortably spliced into a tragedy, except for that underlying and connective sense of the numinous. Theater Review: Conor McPherson’s ‘The Night Alive,’ With Ciaran Hinds 2013-12-13T03:00:09Z Similarly, the sense of the numinous, of potencies beyond human understanding, is made explicit and manifest, particularly in an early conversation about dark energy. Review: In ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,’ Co-Workers Weather the Storm 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Now the broadcaster Jonathan Meades is attempting to revive the county in his new BBC4 documentary, The Joy of Essex, aided by director Francis Hanly's meditations on the county's numinous marshlands and evocative creeks. Essex: the only way is up 2013-01-23T18:15:27Z Even for a young generation less accustomed than its forebears to wearing suits, they retain a kind of numinous allure. A New Freedom in Men’s Suits 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The author may mean to de-glamorise the fairy world, but instead makes it boringly mundane; after a certain point, Hiero ought to wear a T-shirt reading "The numinous doesn't live here any more". Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce – review 2012-07-04T07:00:02Z For both artists, the circle was a numinous symbol. Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival at the Guggenheim 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Oliver offered a seriousness not tied to a religious orthodoxy, a way to find the numinous through poetry and the outdoors, to avoid dwelling on crowds, modernity, the economy, and their loud demands. Mary Oliver’s Deep, Direct Love for the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Because the best version of Smile, a really happy record but also one of numinous beauty, a record that did make Pepper sound "meh", is the one that will always exist in our imaginations. Why I frown upon the Beach Boys releasing Smile 2011-03-14T13:04:56Z Smith admits as much, writing of her “fascination for melancholia” and the poetic potential that resides in her “numinous malady.” The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Translator Frank Wynne, who is chairing the judging panel, said the books circled the globe and ranged “from the intimate to the epic, the numinous to the profane.” Polish Nobel winner vying for International Booker Prize 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z A naked woman in a luxurious bedroom greets a divine numinous visitor. Rothko vandalism: why are the greatest works attacked? 2012-10-08T12:42:35Z Experiencing a Saariaho work is less like listening to concert music than like entering a new, enveloping world: suspended, womblike, irradiated, numinous. Exploring the Magic of Seven 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z Some will find this mysterious and numinous; others may find it evasive and unrealistic. The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech - review 2012-12-21T22:55:04Z Or perhaps to snare incautious filmmakers, as it’s also the setting for Gus Van Sant’s movie of the same name, a numinous meditation on grief that’s more likely to inspire laughter than tears. Review: Love, Loss and Spiritual Torment in ‘The Sea of Trees’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The film that is playing, its music soaring as climax is reached, is Poor Cow with the "numinous" Terence Stamp. Ten of the best visits to the cinema 2010-05-14T23:32:00Z The camera floats, as does the pale car on its numinous pilgrimage. My favourite Hitchcock: Vertigo 2012-08-10T14:28:09Z Much of Moore’s appeal rests in bathos: his gods are fallen, at once numinous and mundane. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The numinous experience, the thrills, they have always been near at hand. She Won a Tony. But Deirdre O’Connell ‘Can’t Think About That.’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z In opera of all periods, night scenes are an occasion for the composer to toy with orchestration and timbre, to create a numinous alternative world. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z Luminous, numinous, it filled me with rapture: It was the color of heaven, the color, I thought, which Giotto had spent a lifetime trying to get but never achieved.” Books of The Times: ‘Hallucinations,’ by Oliver Sacks 2012-11-26T22:26:01Z When the village is cut off by a landslide, the strange and the numinous subtly encroach on reality, and things begin to change. Science fiction roundup - reviews 2012-08-03T21:55:04Z In his finest work, Machen blends the sinister and numinous, most unforgettably in “The White People,” the first- person account of an adolescent girl drawn inexorably into an evil, yet strangely magical Other World. Review | Dispatch from a ‘horror’ convention: It began in a dark, candlelit room . . . 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The fruit in those same kitchens looked numinous in the morning light. Review | Wolfgang Tillmans’s ’90s photo tour is a blast. But is it great art? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The creaky Romantic fantasy of the numinous artist, isolated from mundane labors, turning her back on the modern world to get in touch with higher truths, is on display. Commentary: 'A train wreck': CSULB's new art exhibition is a disservice to students 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z And yet it seemed that Robinson, with his long and numinous reach, should have been beyond such mundane calculus. Book excerpt: The day Jackie Robinson came home to Dodger Stadium 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z María Elena moved through a world that was haunted by spirits, numinous presences who could give comfort and advice or demand sacrifice and appeasement. He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z We devour the latest polls but tell ourselves not to believe them, casting salt over our shoulders and muttering incantations to the numinous entities of our choosing. Why is this election so painful? Because voting isn't real political power 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The Lydian here is an anachronism evoking a lost, numinous realm. Beethoven for pandemic times: How Opus 132 is journey through illness and healing 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z On any day, “when you go into the chamber, it’s a sort of numinous space, it’s a liminal space, a place that inspires a sort of awe,” Dr. Bradley said. DNA of ‘Irish Pharaoh’ Sheds Light on Ancient Tomb Builders 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The former receive all the press and relate to the feeling of an overwhelming presence, something numinous, divine. What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about the Brain 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Left in their original settings, Buddhas and flying apsaras, demons and monsters, are still numinous. A Poetic Journey Through Western China 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z There was an ethereal quality to the Bungalows; being there felt like floating through the numinous afterglow of the paparazzi flash bulbs. Meet the Hollywood super-networkers working to beat Trump at any price 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It was heart-stirring to see, an almost numinous thing, though I knew he didn’t believe in God. Clive James: the last interview 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z They are masterworks of control that end up being strangely numinous. Art day in L.A.: A walker's guide to gallery hopping along Highland Avenue 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Pepper’s animism doesn’t feel mistily numinous but rather born of a fascination with the geometric building blocks of the natural world. Woman of Steel 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z This combination of the efficient and the numinous made her one of the most interesting figures of the 19th century. Opinion | In opposing Harriet Tubman, Trump has messed with the wrong woman 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Among the more recent big shifts in how we conceive of supernatural communication occurred around the time of Charles Darwin, when there was an explosion of secular interest in the numinous, called spiritualism. Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Besides such numinous musing is dead-eyed observation — for instance, a beloved literary mentor shod in “the kind of tan hybrid of sneaker and Oxford shoe favored by elder-hostlers.” Are intros and outros the bland bread of a book sandwich? Michael Chabon's 'Bookends' makes them the main course 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The falling from the sky of ice crystals is the product of natural rules; but numinous causes and compossibilities now suggested themselves. “The First World” 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Today the cloud is the central metaphor of the internet: a global system of great power and energy that nevertheless retains the aura of something numinous, almost impossible to grasp. Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Its outside is battered and crusty, but the inside shines numinous in gold leaf. Sweat lodge, Audre Lorde, magical holograms: Three stellar art shows that pull you to another place 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z What better way for a writer-director to explore the numinous — those transcendent moments of spiritual connection that so often transpire in life’s thin places in nature and between people? Review | ‘Song to Song’: Beautiful searchers seek meaning in Austin’s music scene 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The music demonstrated Byrne’s facility in different genres, and included elements of pop, jazz, and reggae, though Timbers likened its predominant mood to the numinous Nordic rock of the band Sigur Rós. A Protest Musical for the Trump Era 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z But it’s precisely this dramatic irony that gives Portraits of Courage its numinous and haunting quality. George W Bush's talent as a painter finds an ironic muse: the combat veteran 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Rothko’s abstract veils of colour gather you into their numinous despair. How to find solace in dark times: there's always art to look up to 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Our brains seem to be wired to appreciate the numinous. I lost my faith in God. Then I found it. Now it’s complicated. 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z You are no longer looking at the actual surface of the painting, but some apparition hovering above it, a numinous specter that arises in part from the engagement of your own imagination. The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z We no longer believe in a numinous life force, an élan vital. Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The question of whether he is the Prince of Darkness or merely a farmyard pest, however, stays unresolved, and “The Witch” feels at once sticky with tangible detail and numinous with suggestion. The Mortal Terror of “The Witch” 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z But like the Benghazi-hunters, both men were really after something else, something larger and more numinous and almost impossible to define. Benghazi, Joe McCarthy and the witch trials: Trey Gowdy’s farcical hearings tap into a deep, dark American current 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z A gateway to the numinous that allows us to express our darker selves; a chronicler of contemporary society’s weirder side; a metaphor for lives transformed by technology. Urban fantasy fiction: there's more to it than sex with were-leopards 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Cornell has often been deemed an alchemist in tribute to these numinous creations. Better Than LSD? Trip Out On Joseph Cornell's Mind-Altering Art At This London Exhibit 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Neither, incidentally, does Ronald Reagan, a numinous hero for nostalgic conservatives. Save us from GOP businessmen! Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Mitt Romney and the big lie about big business 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z In some cultures, they inspire reverence: numinous birds, what the Chinese call “the birds of heaven”. Britain's Cranes Are Back From the Brink 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Just sometimes there are moments when a reporter escapes the confusion of the here and now, when the present merges with the past in a numinous concurrence. The business of cathedrals 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z If there is anything numinous in modern London, it must be perfectly camouflaged in the colours of a Caffè Nero. Urban fantasy fiction: there's more to it than sex with were-leopards 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z As the unofficial leader of the Beatles, Lennon had exerted a numinous influence on the popular culture of the 1960s and 1970s. Tracing the Steps of John Lennon's Killer The house-selling business is to Ford what the whale-hunting business was to Melville: a path to the numinous, right through the thick blubber of the everyday. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country That turns all parties — the mentally ill, their families, scientists and social workers — into helpless subjects of numinous currents. Robin Williams Did Not Have Demons. He Had a Disease. Or Several. In his letter-by-letter rendering of the Torah, Mr. Epstein demonstrated the numinous potential in our common human condition. Richard Epstein ‘touched the divine’ with his devotion to the Torah "It's like being bathed in numinous buttermilk," adds Percy, who describes himself as the apostle of anti-tat. Stirling Prize: Bishop Edward King Chapel 2013-09-16T07:10:45Z But we also instinctively understand the game to be, on occasion, numinous. Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Byronic bicycle kick 2012-11-16T21:45:01Z And then there is always the dream of borrowed time, that numinous period beyond the predicted end, like a stay of execution, which must be fraught with its own blessings and curses. Well: Living With Cancer: It's About Time 2012-11-08T17:06:33Z After four very difficult years for the United States and the global economy, Obama’s numinous smile no longer inspires as much hope and confidence as before. Europeans React to Obama Win 2012-11-07T09:45:00Z This is already problematic, I think, because we are left unclear on what political correctness is, beyond a numinous and threatening presence. The Problem With 'The Problem With Political Correctness' 2012-07-18T19:39:36Z The Lion King's numinous numbers — which registered the best weekend haul since Rise of the Planet of the Apes opened six weeks ago — underline the enormous, enduring power of the Disney brand's top-of-the-line items. Box Office: The Lion King Roars, Drive Purrs, Straw Dogs Whimpers 2011-09-18T05:30:00Z “I wanted to be reminded of how the numinous impinges on ordinary life,” she writes. What Grief Is Really Like 2011-04-16T04:31:12Z They were small figures in an enormous place, reminded of their smallness and overwhelmed with a sense of the numinous. The Runaway Asteroid |
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