How To Use Mystification In A Sentence
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Grotesque hyperbole and mystification belongs among the trademarks of Czech culture and creating false identities is one of the strategies of contemporary art.
Boing Boing
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The criminal ‘justice’ system functions to alienate and isolate the accused individual, to destroy one's power and purposefulness and to weave a web of confusion and mystification around any legal proceedings.
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A salutary leveling of Voice in writing, rooted deep in the currents of postmetaphysical philosophy — or otherwise the deconstruction of the transcendental Word in all its various mystifications — can rightly disenchant the file of the signifier without going so far as to ignore the phonemic enchainment linked by letters but not coterminous with those scripted increments.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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And then, to the audience's mystification, the band suddenly stopped playing.
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It is the winter of 1773 and ‘our man’ Diderot fills 66 notebooks with facts, dreams and mystifications for his illustrious benefactress.
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It was a typically terse rejoinder from a character who has never hidden his mystification for those who squander their natural talent.
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He finished the domestic season in poor shape and, to general mystification, gave only the haziest impersonation of himself all the way through the World Cup finals.
Losing a player as gifted as Wayne Rooney smacks of carelessness
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Her history is still perceived to be one of religious mystification and ritualised domestic violence.
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The Moon is the queen of mesmerism and mystification.
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I suspect the demystification of the magickal process will rob it of magic.
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The skills jockeys employ to get horses to win races are largely visible and obvious - despite many attempts at mystification by a racing culture addicted to magic and superstition.
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When we moved in to this house eight years ago the hall, to our complete mystification as to why, was "panelled" in rush matting up to shoulder height.
MatchPot Land.
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It's typical of the Belfast approach to life, this earthing of Ireland's celebrities and stars, this demystification of the glamour and pizzazz of showbusiness.
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There is a distinction to be made between, on the one hand, propaganda, with its ultimate aims of mystification, the facilitating of domination, and submission to authority -- and, on the other hand, subversive counterpropaganda that aims at transparency, reciprocity, and collective and democratic self-authorization.
Stephen Ducat: Propaganda 101: How to Decode Political Ads
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So it isn't so much an exasperation, but a mystification, almost amounting to irritation under questioning, that Berkovic should be disinterred from the mental plot to which the manager has evidently assigned him.
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Writers do not predict the future but use writing as a cognitive ancillary in the demystification of the present.
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Perhaps the word 'apperception' flourished in their eyes and ears as it nowadays often is, embodies as much of this mystification as any other single thing.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
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This demystification condemns him to a sort of living death.
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But this piece of ideological mystification is belied by the facts.
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This kind of spoliation, thus reduced to a system, becomes then the most ridiculous of mystifications for every one, and the definite result is that each one believes that he gains more from a general market impoverished by all.
Sophisms of the Protectionists