Sentence examples for occult force from inspiring English sources

Tales of Orpheus make this occult force manifest by providing an emblematic image of eloquence's action-at-a-distance.

But even when the list, or the listicle, has nothing really to do with useful information, it still exerts an occult force on our attention or on my attention, at any rate.

But even when the list, or the listicle, has nothing really to do with useful information, it still exerts an occult force on our attention — or on my attention, at any rate.

They see beyond the thing at hand to the mysterious relation it may have to another thing at hand — when an apple drops on their head, they ask what dark, occult force in the earth drew it there.

Mesmer believed that it was an occult force or invisible fluid emanating from his body and that, more generally, the force permeated the universe, deriving especially from the stars.

"The Trials of Orpheus: Renaissance Poetics and the History of Knowledge" examines how early modern poets and philosophers draw on the myth of Orpheus to conceptualize the preternatural power of eloquence, an occult force that penetrates the body and moves populations into action.

Most clergy shared the common beliefs in occult forces and lent their authority to them.

Officials, stunned by the size of the demonstrations, insist occult forces are guiding them.

These are difficult, almost occult forces; dangerous to the act of fiction.

Occult forces are at work in Winchester world, and eventually the family patriarch is killed off as well.

Another possibility, considerably less likely but equally self-sparing, is that your missing object engineered its own vanishing, alone or in conjunction with other occult forces.