How to Use mysticism in a Sentence

mysticism

noun
  • Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mysticism.
  • There is no mysticism in this kind of knowledge.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • What brought you to study more magic and mysticism?
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The book is filled with musings on mysticism and cute doodles of stars.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • And of course, all that mysticism and magic is just a metaphor for the hell of growing up.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • All of this reinforced a sort of mysticism around the food of my people.
    — Mike Curato june 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
  • There was not the slightest trace of mysticism in what was happening.
    — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Less enticing, though, is the way the play wreathes Agnes in mysticism.
    — Rhoda Feng, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Kelson is a man of science and an atheist, but not without a touch of mysticism.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Here the storefronts peddle desert mysticism, health food and local art.
    — New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
  • But as with any form of mysticism, there are people who are more sensitive to it than others.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • They get sucked into the witch’s natural world of mysticism.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But the thing that always pushed Hurts forward was that mysticism locked inside his own heart.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • This is a town embraced in an atmosphere of magic and mysticism.
    — Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2021
  • And there’s just something about the mysticism of the play and how it’s written and its scale that feels important to me.
    — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • The lines between faith, mysticism and therapy can be very, very blurry.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • These degrees bring out mysticism and intuition in the water sign.
    — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • Byrne’s brand of mysticism and romance is familiar, but all the sweeter for being so.
    — Noah Berlatsky, Chicago Reader, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Yet somehow, mysticism has become a lifestyle trend, the kooky aunt or cousin of the wellness movement.
    — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The name Edgar Cayce is well-known to those with a belief in mysticism and the unexplained.
    — AL.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • There is an ethereal mysticism to the lyrical passages, and a big-hearted warmth.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 10 July 2018
  • And soon Elizabeth starts doing weird things with rocks, a touch of mysticism that just looks like writerly quirk run amok.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 June 2019
  • In Jewish mysticism, sleep is described as a time when the soul ascends to connect with higher realms.
    — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Cameron Winter’s lyrics have an air of inscrutable mysticism, but there is little doubt he’s supposed to be the one singing them.
    — Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
  • And then also, to me, there is a mysticism in the feminine; there’s an unspeakable power!
    — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 July 2023
  • Such questions are elided behind the fig leaf of Hoffman’s mysticism.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Hold the Dark narratively goes to new depths, or heights, in terms of the mysticism and folklore of the culture.
    — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2018
  • In Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism, this music is food for the soul.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Brand strategists would pay for the kind of allure and near mysticism that surrounds an Hermès Birkin bag.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2014
  • The core appeal of Doctor Strange comes from the tension between medicine and mysticism.
    — Joe George, Men's Health, 25 Apr. 2022

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