| 词汇 | example_english_spiritualist |
| 释义 | Examples of spiritualistThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Even within the spiritualist community the ambivalence that attached to materialization betrayed the emotional and epistemological strain of the practice. A third feature of significance to spiritualists concerns the affective nature of what went on within seances themselves. At the opposite end of the cultural spectrum are spiritualists of a different breed. The same performative dynamics structure another spiritualist practice, materialization, whereby a spirit is clothed in temporary flesh derived from the medium's own body. Spiritualist treatises are, in most cases, dreary compendiums of facts and observations. Spiritualist women acquired unprecedented power by taking their passive feminine role to the extreme. Yet when spiritualists appropriated the formulae of such scenes it was within a set of practices that explicitly denied the fact of death at all. In the circles of the learned older ideas and presuppositions fed into and fused with newer occult and spiritualist traditions. The irreducible ambiguity of the spiritualist women's position consisted in the fact that they were empowered by their own powerlessness. The novel's significance to spiritualists can be exemplified by a further detail. The ambiguity both dissociates the medium from the spirit, as required by the spiritualist protocol, and covertly establishes their commonality, not to say identity. Many prominent spiritualists dissociated themselves completely, while others took an uneasy wait-and-see attitude. The spiritualist medium, in other words, is a ghost's writer, somebody who lends his (or more often her) body to an immaterial spirit in order to produce a text. Home became the exemplar medium, continually cited by spiritualists in support of their beliefs, and the most challenging case for critics of spiritualism to deal with. Ghosts-written texts were not a new phenomenon; a steady stream of them followed in the wake of the great spiritualist movement of the second half of the nineteenth century. His name will be remembered and revered for the great service which he has given to the spiritualist cause. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us remember that there are more than 1,000,000 people—never mind about those who are rationalists—who belong to the spiritualist churches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, it was intelligent prevision on his part, or perhaps he had consulted a spiritualist meeting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Maybe he is psychic, maybe he has attended a spiritualist meeting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For more than quarter of a century the spiritualist movement has been seeking what is accorded to the other religious denominations—religious freedom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is notorious from those who go to spiritualist meetings, that the people in the other world have less intelligence than our own. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He also said that the people in these spiritualist bodies who own property were very anxious about the security of that property. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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