He brought to his study of theology a spirituality of outlook and an aptitude for metaphysical inquiry and exposition which made his writings more attractive.

Gertrude Stein created words to roll off the tongue, sentences intended to be eaten sensuously like little pieces of fruit, not to sting the mind with metaphysical inquiry.

So in a sense it is no surprise that he retreated inward, to create for himself a house that represents an almost metaphysical inquiry into the nature of space.

Not that I wanted to go that far, but I knew I didn't want the sense of humor to distract from the main metaphysical inquiry.

This is not a metaphysical inquiry but a planning question, although the quick rejoinder to both might be: which god?

Thus begins a paranoid thriller moonlighting as a metaphysical inquiry into life's deepest meaning.

His own version of object-oriented thought, called 'Onticology', disprivileges human experience from a central position in metaphysical inquiry, while holding that objects are always split between two domains, virtuality and actuality.

In one of his typically intriguing footnotes, Mr. Holmes writes that Coleridge's passion for climbing hills and scaling mountain peaks "seems to have some deep imaginative correspondence with his metaphysical inquiries."

Turgot said, "He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries."

The argument is relevant for Scotus' conception of metaphysical inquiry into being by searching the ways into which beings relate to each other.