170 examples of mundane in sentences

A balloon is the best pulpit imaginable from which to preach a sermon upon the littleness of mundane realities, firstbecause no one can hear you, and your congregation cannot therefore be held responsible for indifference to your teaching; and secondbecause at that height you are fully impressed with the truth of what you say.

Death has bestowed upon him a vitality superior to that of mundane life.

Having 'awakened from the dream of [mundane] life,' his spirit forms an integral portion of the universe.

I think Shelley means that the successive hopes kindled in the mourner by the ideas of a boundless universe of space and of spirit will have lured him to the very brink of mundane lifeto the borderland between life and death: he will almost have been tempted to have done with life, and to explore the possibilities of death.

Life, mundane life, is as a dome of glass, which becomes many-coloured by its prismatic diffraction of the white light: its various prisms reflect eternity at different angles.

The curse of birth is, I think, simply the calamitous condition of mundane lifeso often referred to in this Elegy as a condition of abjection and unhappiness.

In saying that his spirit's bark is driven far from the shore, Shelley apparently means that his mind, in speculation and aspiration, ranges far beyond those mundane and material interests with which the mass of men are ordinarily concerned.

Mr. Heatherbloom regarded the boata link from Arcadia to the mundane world.

Mundane considerations were imperative and courtyards were a luxury of the rich.

What" "Mademoiselle," said Fullaway, with a deep bow, "let me suggest to you that the finest thing in this mundane state of ours isreason.

Philosophy, as ordinarily understood,that is, metaphysics,is most idle of all, since it does not pertain to mundane wants.

There are many who feel that this combat is necessary for the full development of human strength and virtue; who maintain that the good is much more powerful than the evil in any age of moral experiences; and who believe that angels of light will, on our mundane arena, prevail over angels of darkness,that one truth is stronger than one thousand lies, and that two can put ten thousand to flight.

" I allus argy that a man Who does about the best he can Is plenty good enugh to suit This lower mundane institute No matter ef his daily walk Is subject fer his neghbor's talk, And critic-minds of ev'ry whim Jest all git up and go fer him!

He contrived to amuse Lesbia by his conversation, which was essentially mundane, depreciating people whom all the rest of the world admired, or pretended to admire, telling her of the secret springs by which the society she saw around her was moved.

The second great work aroused glowing enthusiasm: "Kant is no mundane luminary," writes Jean Paul in regard to the Critique of Practical Reason, "but a whole solar system shining at once.

"] Small wonder that Lovelace in the trenches envies the Flying Man: He rides aloof on god-like wings, Taking no thought of wire or mud, Saps, smells, or bugsthe mundane things That sour our lives and have our blood.

Mundane houses, by C. C. Zain [pseud.]

R117488, 17Sep53, Maria M. Benjamine (W) BENJAMINE, MARIA M. Mundane houses.

(Mundane astrology, serial no.142, course 13-B) © 1May35; AA192203.

Doctrine of mundane astrology, by C. C. Zain, pseud.

(Mundane astrology, serial no.141, course 13-A) © 1May35; AA192204.

Doctrine of mundane astrology.

The instrument of the purely mundane consciousness, on the other hand, is the reason, which dissevers and dissects phenomena, divining unity through correlation.

Though the same individual again and again intersects the stream of mundane experience, it is an evolving ego and an augmenting stream.

The mundane egg is a well-recognized symbol of the world.

170 examples of  mundane  in sentences