Sentence examples for mysterious capacity from inspiring English sources

According to Searle, the derived intentionality of language accounts for the apparently mysterious capacity of words, phrases, and sentences to refer not only to things in the world but also to things that are purely imaginary or fictional.

They involved no great skill or subtlety, only a mysterious capacity – perhaps derived from his imposing physical presence and his almost maniacal self-belief – to reduce the opposition to gibbering wrecks.

It's not just that the film holds up to repeat viewings; its very point is its seemingly infinite repeatability, its mysterious capacity to surprise both first-time viewers and those who know it as well as a magician reciting an incantation.

Nature has a profound and mysterious capacity for healing.

Knowing that Han, Leia and (in some mysterious capacity) Luke would appear on the big screen for the first time since 1983 felt like returning home to the company of friends, albeit ones with a few extra wrinkles.

In humans, what makes novel H1N1 unique is its remarkable and still mysterious capacity for person-to-person transmission.

Rosamund isn't identical with the writer, but her imagination becomes the vessel for the writer's vision; it's one of the mysterious capacities of the novel form, this spilling over of the writer into the containing vessel of the character's self.

They're assigned to jobs that suit their interests -- when in Positron every other month, Charmaine, a former nursing home worker, works in a mysterious medical capacity. .

Where the Easter Bunny fits remains mysterious, though rabbits' reproductive capacity makes them, like Olive and George Osmond, folkloric symbols of fecundity.

These mysteries remain mysterious.

At the heart of some of these mysterious effects may be the capacity to trust that what can only be imagined may be real, and be good.