Sentence examples for metaphysical from inspiring English sources

The 17th-century metaphysical poet, John Donne said: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent".

But there are some forms of gross unfairness that are not, as it were, metaphysical – making you want to swear at the gods – but entirely practical and within human control.

Also blurring genres to great effect were Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies (Faber), a speculative page-turner that takes in everything from Dr Johnson to reincarnation, and Javier Marías's The Infatuations (Hamish Hamilton), a metaphysical murder mystery.

In the metaphysical comedy Généalogies d'un Crime (Genealogies of a Crime, 1997), Catherine Deneuve, as a lawyer, imagines herself to be the murder victim of the young man she is defending.

In his Algeria, God does not exist and life is an endless series of moral choices that must be decided by individuals on their own, with no metaphysical comfort or advice, and with little or no possibility of knowing they ever made the absolutely correct choice.

Adding dollops of metaphysical orthodoxy won't make for more efficient traffic patterns or better budgeting, but it may well alienate some members of the community.

The German authorities, judicial and administrative, have treated Scientology with scepticsm; several political parties have banned Scientologists from joining.Still, there is something peculiar about the highest court in a comparatively secular country mulling over the metaphysical claims of a self-described religion and its entitlement to solemnise matrimony.

"A museum or gallery is a metaphysical space," says Mr Piano.

This is a devaluation of human thought.Mr Lanier's gripe is a metaphysical one, and he has a point.

The conservatives have a point when they question the coherence of moral or metaphysical relativism; but when you look at the totality of what Francis is saying, that doesn't seem to be his position.

Then a dragon comes along that is so beautifully crafted that everybody stares.Technically, all this is happening not in real life but in Second Life, a "metaverse" (for "metaphysical universe") created by Linden Lab, a San Francisco internet company.