The geists eat and drink, but only as geists — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.

Koerg was not slow to recognize a geist; his knees shook, and he dared not utter a word.

… it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist, a complex function of Freud's worldview.

The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur.

However, the geist of the times following the World War was the "normalcy" of Warren G. Harding.

… a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist, principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.

... particular 'culture areas' of the world are dominated by their own peculiar geist or 'cultural soul' ...

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