And metaphysics, the extension of science in metaphysical ways, is not subject to empirical test.
The New Metaphysical Art movement has some respected backers and an agenda that goes beyond protest.
More than a simple satire on conservative social mores, "Bridegroom" is a metaphysical mystery.
In brief, Werner Herzog has checked into New Orleans and metaphysical despair is loosed upon Bourbon Street.
Unfortunately, the director, Karyn Kusama, concentrates more on sending messages of feminine empowerment than on conjuring metaphysical moods.
In the ancient world, the 'gods' were rarely regarded as supernatural beings with discrete personalities, living a totally separate metaphysical existence.
More than thirty years later, the play, refurbished with a coherent psychological subtext, seems clearly more than metaphysical hokum.
The movie is a metaphysical Cracker Jack box without so much as a shiny prize in its empty-calories depths.
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
But last summer Miraval got as serious about the physical as the metaphysical.
It would be outlandish for critics to comment on, say, metaphysical poetry without interacting critically with its most inspired poets.
He said he launched the site to "de-lamilfy spirituality, " to promote conversations and to bring people together about metaphysical topics.
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The picture, written and directed by Paul Haggis, is a detailed police procedural encasing a technological and metaphysical lunge at the truth.
As this cost-shifting is exactly what the Health Care Reform Act was enacted to address, there is no need for metaphysical gymnastics.
They are a major presence in this strange, empty movie, a metaphysical Cracker Jack box without a prize in its empty-calorie depths.
The oft-mythologized, metaphysical musical journey of the Grateful Dead began in 1965, and continued to sold-out crowds through the band's break-up in 1995.
The thing about mind games, like anything metaphysical, is that those of us who are watching them unfold don't really know what's real and what isn't.
"Here's this heavy metaphysical painting with a father figure whose head could be bobbed up and down like a yo-yo, played with, or dropped, " Ms. Fort says.
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For their part, schooled in the martial traditions of Joshua and Gideon, the Jews of 1948 blended seamlessly the psychological and the metaphysical with armor and steel.
She describes the Byzantine empire's appropriation of the Mother of God as protectress of the city of Constantinople and its rulers and the intricate metaphysical groundwork which made that change possible.
Europe, particularly the U.K., suffers acutely from metaphysical angst.
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The FORBES 400 demonstrates that the the real wealth of our nation is not physical--jewelry, gold, large cash accounts, lots of land--but metaphysical, what stems from the human mind--creativity, imagination, innovation, inventiveness.
Many movies have paid homage to "Badlands, " including Tony Scott's "True Romance" (1993) and Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" (1994), but this piercing fairy tale has a clarity and metaphysical weight that is all its own.
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At its best, says Mary Evelyn Tucker of Yale University's Forum on Religion and Ecology, environmental theology goes deep inside the metaphysical ideas that underpin ancient faiths while also celebrating what believers actually do, from tending forests to limiting their food intake.
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