| 单词 | incantation |
| 例句 | Chiron was learned in the use of herbs and gentle incantations and cooling potions. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Did they mutter any tribal incantations while they did the killings, for example? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The words, repeated, had the rhythm of an incantation, and they were the last that passed between the two young men for more than four years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The last night of lying on hard ground, and falling asleep to the murmured incantations of the shaman stirring his powders into the fire. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z This is my name, and coming from his lips right now it sounds like both an incantation and a cry of disbelief. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He rubbed Mimir’s head with certain herbs to prevent it from rotting, and he chanted charms and incantations over it, for he did not wish Mimir’s knowledge to be lost. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It is a surprise that we haven’t already learned that the word is a fallible incantation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The recipe is incomplete, since the lamp ought to be inscribed with mysterious characters and there is an incantation to be mumbled. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "Certainly I can. Many people can do that” "Not most people. I cannot It is very good that you know how to read and write, very good. You might even need the incantations.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “There was someone behind the trees. . . they shouted words — an incantation —” “Oh, stood over there, did they?” said Mr. Crouch, turning his popping eyes on Hermione now, disbelief etched all over his face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He explored every inch of the region, even the riverbed, dragging the two iron ingots along and reciting Melquíades’ incantation aloud. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Take the coaster straight past the gap,” she said aloud, an incantation to keep away any Rusty ghosts. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "And this change, O most learned Prince, has doubtless been brought to pass by the powerful incantations of those wicked persons who now call themselves kings and queens of Narnia." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He muttered more incantations as he reached into thin air and pulled out things I’m not sure I can describe, though I’ll try. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The storm of sound beat at them, an incantation of hatred. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “The incantation is this —” Lupin cleared his throat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z "Weren't you given a magical incantation or something?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Grover trotted around with a full plate of tin cans and enchiladas, and his goblet was full of double espresso latte, which he kept muttering over like an incantation: “Pan! Pan!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She turned to face the exit and began to execute a series of elaborate gestures in the air in front of her while whispering the words of some incantation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Ron, who was supposed to be jinxing Harry, was purple in the face, his lips tightly compressed to save himself from the temptation of muttering the incantation. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Well, to be absolutely honest, she actually just said, “Oh, hello. It’s you again,” but I wasn’t about to stand there and listen to her demonic incantations. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She was reciting some sort of incantation between questions, probably something to give Seven strength. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Every incantation, magic, and herbal formula known was brought out, and she got two good nurses and the town’s best doctors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I am supposed to repeat my affirmations like incantations to drive the nasty voices out of my head. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “If we’re staying, we should put some protective enchantments around the place,” she replied, and raising her wand, she began to walk in a wide circle around Harry and Ron, murmuring incantations as she went. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As if they were some terrible incantation that made it more real. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She still hovered in the window every day, mouthing the words I’ll be back, her prayer, her incantation, but her prayers weren’t working. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “So you just decided to try out an unknown, handwritten incantation and see what would happen?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes they herded the hairy creatures en masse into gullies or entangling bogs, driving the animals to their doom with shouts, dogs, torches, and, possibly, shamanic incantations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Harry reacted instinctively; his wand was out of his pocket and the incantation sprang to mind without conscious thought: Levicorpus! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “With an incantation, which will work only if you are concentrating, with all your might, on a single, very happy memory.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, they could not copy the spell she was doing because she was now so good at nonverbal incantations that she did not need to say the words aloud. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At first Frodo felt as if he had indeed been turned into stone by the incantation. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Stepping into the boat light as a cat Ged set straight the warped boards and rotten pegs, working both with tools and incantations, as he had used to do with Pechvarry in Low Torning. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Snape was muttering incantations, pointing his wand at the wrist of the hand, while with his left hand he tipped a goblet full of thick golden potion down Dumbledore’s throat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z "I also know the sacrificial songs,” said Siddhartha, "but I will not sing them any more. I also know incantations, but I will not pronounce them any more. I have read the scriptures. ...” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z While this incantation was going on, the patient felt some queer sensations. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Witchlings were pinned: the Cursed Toads and the Nightbeast in front of them, the raging water behind them growing wilder as Barbatos waved his hands in the air and mumbled an incantation. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A reasonable amount of cheating ensued; many people were merely whispering the incantation instead of saying it aloud. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The diviner took the array of bones and shells in her fat hands, shook them, muttering incantations, then threw them on the mat in front of her. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed his hand over Annabeth’s face and spoke an incantation. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Lately, the base people in the village are whispering the name as if it is a powerful incantation. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Winky’s got a squeaky little voice, and the voice we heard doing the incantation was much deeper!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I’ve hidden us all,” Duny said, sullenly, for his head hurt from his father’s blow, and the working of the doubled incantation had drained his strength. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She stared into her gray eyes and tucked a strand of black hair behind her ear, summoning the words of her oath as if they were an incantation. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Pushing Harry roughly aside, he knelt over Malfoy, drew his wand, and traced it over the deep wounds Harry’s curse had made, muttering an incantation that sounded almost like song. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The thundering incantations of the second part, “Free Among the Dead,” were formed out of improvisations with the producer Dave Hunt. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z A war between orcs and humans on the world of Azeroth, complete with enormous battle scenes, feathered griffins and lots of magical incantation, is the cinematic manifestation of a gaming phenomenon. Duncan Jones on Warcraft: 'If you get it wrong, people are going to be upset' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Along the way, they utter the touchstones of their transcontinental odyssey like an incantation: “Kabul. Tehran. Istanbul. Athens. Rome. Paris. London.” Review | Studio Theatre’s ‘Flight’ soars by tackling big issues with miniature models 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z A calm settled around us like an incantation, the drinking came off the gallop and the questions started coming and so did some honest attempts at answers. Boys’ Night In pork tacos 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z And Huie's Sermon, again it's about that kind of incantation, the intensity of speech that goes into complete ecstasies. Werner Herzog: 'I've made bigger films than Jack Reacher' 2012-12-20T18:00:00Z Magic Words: Apparently if you want a “ten from Len” you must say, “ten from Len” like a magical incantation over and over and over again. Dancing with the Stars Watch: The Final Performances 2012-05-22T14:02:50Z The phrase was repeated and repeated like an incantation. Perspective | Let’s talk about ‘Project Runway’ stars using ‘old lady’ to describe unflattering clothes 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It was more than entertainment, like being involved in some incantation. Patti Smith: how she rocks our world 2012-05-26T23:15:26Z Ms. Menkes has compared this alchemical process to sorcery, and her trancelike movies, which rely on repetition and incantation, act on the viewer like spells. Retrospectives of the Filmmaker Nina Menkes 2012-02-19T03:37:17Z True to form, Friday night included both a traditional violin performance from the Irish fiddler Martin Hayes and Laurie Anderson’s spoken-word incantations. Glen Hansard, Colum McCann and Others From Ireland 2011-11-01T22:45:05Z The lines of text — a patchwork of passages in Latin, Italian, English, French and German — tend to be repeated again and again, like an incantation. Music Review: Jay Campbell Plays a New Jonathan Dawe Work 2014-05-09T21:20:19Z On Friday night in Damrosch Park, the darkness of a giant cinema screen was pierced by a disembodied set of crimson lips that began to sing an opening incantation to some 2,000 moviegoers. ‘Rocky Horror’ at Lincoln Center, With Headphones 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Neon words glowed and flashed feminist incantations and provocations from the rafters. Perspective | Paris Fashion Week begins with coronavirus anxiety — plus latex, feminism and flashing neon lights 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The discourse is marked by the ritualistic incantation of two words that may at this point be redundant: spoiler alert. Film: ?Inception? Criticism Raises Questions for Critics 2010-07-23T22:17:00Z On Iron & Wine’s 2002 breakthrough “The Creek Drank the Cradle,” Sam Beam’s hushed incantations fit his gentle acoustic guitars like a warm autumn sweater. Reviews of new albums from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iron & Wine and Willie Nelson 2013-04-15T21:55:09Z Nathan Young, another prolific musician, was just a child in Tahlequah, Okla., the capital of the Cherokee Nation, when he realized the story of Native American music was deeper than powwow incantations. Upending Expectations for Indigenous Music, Noisily 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z He prefers to hurl spells, incantations and mystic bolts, but Doctor Strange will engage in physical combat if he has to. 10 Things You Need to Know Before Seeing ‘Doctor Strange’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But, as befits a show about black magic, they are a fierce incantation, a shield and a vow that speak volumes about surviving the truly terrifying world that waits outside. Review: Paging Pablo Escobar in ‘Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Were they praying, whispering or reciting an incantation? In 'New Faithful Disco,' Meg Wolfe and dancers groove through a wild night out 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z In present-day patriotic incantations, this is referred to as “American exceptionalism.” An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z It's as much church incantation as it is an addition to the blubstep canon. New band of the day: Jamie Isaac (No 1,526) 2013-06-05T14:53:03Z Her memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster, “Fire in my mouth,” concludes with an ethereal incantation of the 146 workers who died, their names drifting in sound, as if into the smoke of history. A Composer Shifts Her Focus to Climate, With Help From Children 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z But nobody believes this, especially not the assortment of smug white folks who utter that incantation, including an art critic whose disdainful half-grin during her first appearance announces her as future hanger steak. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Kevin Abstract begins “Miserable America,” an arrestingly powerful single from his forthcoming album “American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story,” with these lines, delivered deadpan, rapped in a style that recalls the incantations of P.M. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z An Ethiopian recipe book from 1750 is filled with protective charms, talismans and incantations. Spellbound by Harry Potter and the Museum of Magic 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Named after a nightclub in Marrakesh, “Madame Plaza” features three Aïta vocalists — traditional singers whose performances are marked by wailing cries and incantations. Dance Review: ‘Voices of Strength’ at New York Live Arts 2012-09-23T21:57:09Z DiDonato walked the perimeter of the audience, singing the trumpet’s part as a wordless incantation. Review: Joyce DiDonato’s ‘Eden’ Takes Root at Carnegie Hall 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z But seriously, Rob — if you can’t write a better incantation than “You are the dragon, Lord Satan!” maybe it’s time to go back to “Halloween” remakes. Zombies are the incompetent ‘Lords of Salem’ 2013-04-19T17:59:31Z A Sanskrit incantation is written in Brahmi and Sogdian — alternating lines, with the Brahmi version reading from left to right and Sogdian from right to left. The Getty's 'Cave Temples of Dunhuang': How ancient desert outpost became remarkable global crossroads 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z They set a few words within a gentle vamp, often with a touch of jazz or blues, and linger over them until they become liquid incantations, melting into the music and finding refuge there. Music Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the Highline Ballroom 2012-06-14T21:40:14Z At the core of his songs are folky melodies, just two or three phrases that can turn into incantations as his words unfurl. Music Review: Bells and Whistles Turn Up the Volume 2011-01-30T22:55:08Z Her melodies often have the lilt of Celtic ballads and waltzes along with their potential for incantation, carrying a narrative in a repeated phrase. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z He performed most of his set-closer, “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal,” without the dancers, as its relentless drumbeat and tense tremolo violin led him toward desperate incantation. Music Review: Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lam? 2010-09-19T22:31:00Z But as the songwriter Aska created plinking Minimalist patterns and sang dreamlike incantations, five female Mongolian contortionists shared the platform, twining their bodies into their own astonishing patterns. Music Review: The Circus Tumbles In, to the Sound of the ?70s 2011-01-05T23:16:37Z In the central room, where a Chanel couture wedding dress sits under a dome of digitally projected embroidery, all that could be heard was the churchly incantation of the Brian Eno soundtrack. At the Met Gala, Everyone Seems a Little Starstruck. Even the Stars. 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z He speaks in expertly honed talking points that include multiple incantations of his four-word mantra — “truth, justice and reconciliation.” When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The set was loud and intense and methodical, with Mr. Gira’s lyrics as commands or incantations; it drove some people away, just as in the old days of the group. ArtsBeat: A Shot of Sublime Dread at Bonnaroo 2013-06-17T05:47:51Z “A Bid to Save the World” is instead a lyrical meditation on loss using loosely interwoven stories, songs, incantations and poetry, and the result is a drama that is equal parts moving and confounding. ‘A Bid to Save the World’ at Source Festival Like the daughters of unburned witches, “Siren” performs the expected tricks and incantations — in other words, poems. In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The album’s title track began as a slow incantation, with Mr. Cline’s untutored voice adding a layer of vulnerability to the halting melody he fingerpicked on guitar. The Nels Cline Singers Play New Music at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-05-05T16:43:42Z No surprise, “Mormon” came up repeatedly in interviews with people working on this spring’s comedies, like an incantation for success. High-Spirited Comedies Rush the Stage 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Like her other albums it juxtaposes rockers, lullabies, elegies, incantations, love songs and myths in the making. New Music: New Albums from Patti Smith, Ravi Coltrane and Neneh Cherry 2012-06-18T21:55:59Z It's an assemblage of memories, a collage pieced together from snippets and stray thoughts, each of which begins with the incantation "I remember". I Remember by Joe Brainard – review 2013-04-07T12:00:01Z The scene plays out against a chamber brass ensemble, in somber classical harmony — until the song swerves hard into guitar-driven incantation, accumulating layers in a proggish 7/8 meter. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z One game, described by The Evening Public Ledger in 1914, called for a participant to walk backward in bright moonlight while staring into a hand mirror and reciting an incantation. Boo? Halloween Used to Be About Finding True Love 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z He confesses in the final third that “football is my religion,” and the style appropriately resembles liturgical chanting, mystical incantation. Review of ‘Red or Dead’: Liverpool’s Bill Shankly, the Odysseus of Anfield Occasionally the songs’ lyrics overlap, returning to insoluble obsessions; they wander among observation, parable, reminiscence and incantation, sometimes infusing the most commonplace sentiments with mystery. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Perry's vocals veered from a dramatic croon to shamanistic incantations as he and his band tapped into the same synthesized mysticism that drove Dead Can Dance. Mystic masters Perry, Guthrie stay true to their roots 2011-06-06T13:43:20Z I'm going to invoke the magic incantation here: This isn't really a review. Cannes: Lars von Trier at world's end 2011-05-18T15:19:00Z On the run from both cops and killers, Jibran and Leilani wind up at what looks like an “Eyes Wide Shut” theme party, with masked revelers, group sex and mumbo-jumbo incantations. ‘The Lovebirds’ Review: It’s a Turkey 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z I sip my butter tea, sink back on the tide of incantation and ponder whether anything at all about this ceremony has changed in 500 years. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one Jon Snow’s fate appeared to be finally given some resolution in Sunday’s episode, titled “Home,” when Melisandre led an incantation to raise him from the dead. Kit Harrington Reveals Secret 'Game of Thrones' Code Name 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z On the opening track he included a reworked, sample-like version of Coltrane’s famous incantation from “A Love Supreme,” intoned over a loose hip-hop beat. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play. “Song for the Tarahumera,” a scrappy modal tune, becomes a roiling drum incantation. New Music: Albums From Zac Brown Band and George Colligan 2013-12-23T22:34:00Z “For all its magical incantations, murder, lust, voodoo and exorcism, the narrative never casts a spell potent enough to stir the soul,” a critic for The San Jose Mercury News wrote of “House.” Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z There are bright spots of emotional encouragement, especially the interlude “Spiral,” which scans as a healing incantation. Pinegrove Reckons With the Past and Renovates Its Sound 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z With the words from that incantation, a trailer, and potentially a new franchise, begins. ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ Trailer is Released 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z “Bloom,” a psychedelic tangle of a song from the 2011 album “The King of Limbs” — a ballad, rocker and incantation layered with polyrhythms — swelled to arena scale without losing any of its labyrinthine obsessiveness. Review: Radiohead Revels in the Key of Dread 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Without access to a major studio, without its paraphernalia or its closed halls, its personnel or its incantations, the New Wave filmmakers reproduced its devotions in their own plein-air or domestic image-rites. The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z His songs match: they’re barely stylized, heavy on the first person, veering from incantation to crooning. Music Review: The Julie Ruin, Body/Head and Majical Cloudz Play Northside 2013-06-14T21:48:15Z Ms. Kidjo made it a rolling incantation, dynamic and unstoppable, throwing herself into the exhortation. Music Review | Ang?lique Kidjo: Ang?lique Kidjo: West African Music From ?Oyo? CD 2010-03-29T04:57:00Z He turned Ms. Nicks’s “Gold Dust Woman” into a darker incantation before taking a long, skirling, keening solo in his own “I’m So Afraid”; “Tusk” was a cry of despair, not a novelty. Christine McVie Rejoins Fleetwood Mac at the Garden 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Describing a journey of a slave ship, Hayden’s is a documentary piece, yes, but also a chorus, a hymnal, an incantation, a lyric narrative, a drama, an epic account. The Poems That Poets Turn To in a Time of Strife 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Dead Can Dance’s performance was a string of dirges and incantations. Music Review: Dead Can Dance at Beacon Theater 2012-08-30T21:48:08Z Instead of verses and choruses the vocals are often incantations, a melodic phrase or two repeated while everything else melts down or boils over. 2010-01-10T23:10:00Z “Mercy, this story shimmers. Shakes. Wails. Moves to rhythms long forgotten. Chants in incantations highly forbidden. It is a story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill; in many ways: holy.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z According to folklore, “Macbeth” was cursed from the beginning, when a coven of witches objected to Shakespeare using real incantations and put a curse on the play. COVID-19 temporarily stops Daniel Craig’s return to Broadway 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z More quietly devastating is a scene in which a human couple stares nonchalantly over a dreamed landscape in a duet of wordless incantations as another dancer rushes around, as if scurrying in the undergrowth. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Now if bringing someone back is as simple as an incantation, why doesn’t it happen all the time? Behind the Magic of the Jon Snow Reveal on 'Game of Thrones' 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The confluence of the resurrected city and the lost sister becomes the through-line for a novel told in flashes and fragments, as an act of memory and incantation. Han Kang’s Novel Is a Politically Tinged Eulogy for a Dead Sister 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Animal Collective played a mesmerizing set, mingling live and electronic instruments, in which loops and overlapping vocal lines became euphoric incantations. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z In the final moments of Sunday’s episode, titled “Home,” Melisandre led an incantation to raise Snow from the dead. Twitter Reacts to That Jon Snow Moment 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z In any case it never hurts to be reminded of the power of what the critic Albert Murray described as “that artful and sometimes seemingly magical combination of idiomatic incantation and percussion,” i.e. the blues. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z A gothically slow song, it oozes along like a fever dream, less a boast than an incantation. Out of Left Field, but Swinging Hard 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Proceeding in prayerlike incantation, “Best Barbarian,” Roger Reeves’s terrific second collection, eruditely sets out to unite the Western literary canon with its omissions and oppressions. Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Here, it’s stripped down and stretched out to six minutes, with the incantation of the chorus confronting us with aching regret. Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z She began “Redbone,” an incantation from her 1993 breakthrough, “Blue Light ’Til Dawn,” several feet away from the microphone, projecting in a strong moan. Music Review: Cassandra Wilson at the Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-04T20:01:36Z The music behind him is stark, almost atonal — it’s less a celebration than an incantation. Review: ASAP Rocky Returns to a Haze in ‘At.Long.Last.ASAP’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z As if to amplify the echoes, we see Reagan at a podium giving a ringing incantation of a slogan not yet born. You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z “Folks, I have been waiting 25 years to say this: Welcome to Twin Peaks,” he sputtered, his incantation uncannily like that of the dozy Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Deputy. Coffee, pie and nudity: “Twin Peaks” comes to life in New York 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Is it the answer to their prayers or incantations or whatever? The Thrill of Harry Potter Rides On 2010-06-10T14:38:00Z Now settled in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her husband and young daughter, Ms. Mitchell, 35, looks like someone who knows her way around incantation and enchantment. Anaïs Mitchell Hopes to Change the World With Her First Musical 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z I sip my butter tea, sink back on the tide of incantation and ponder whether anything at all about this ceremony has changed in 500 years. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one With each recitation, I felt the knots in my stomach loosening and falling away, as if we were reciting some kind of healing incantation. How My Father Escaped Jail for Christmas 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Something even more compellingly feverish came at the set’s close: “Remolino,” an incantation in the spirit of Albert Ayler, with everyone in the band intoning the melodic line as one. Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z Because of arcane legal spells and incantations limiting its rights agreement, “Rings of Power” is working at Tolkien’s margins, using the six appendices to his trilogy as source fodder. ‘The Rings of Power’ Review: Shiny, Not Yet Precious 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Qasimov is simply one of the greatest singers alive, with a searing spontaneity that conjures passion and devotion, contemplation and incantation. Music Review | Alim Qasimov: At Asia Society, Mugham, the Classical Song of Azerbaijan 2010-03-15T21:39:00Z One of the words that recur in Miłosz's prose and poetry is "incantation", meaning rhythmical language dictated, he would affirm, by a "daimonion". Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z But it exerts the rhythmic power of the incantation that recurs as a motif: “Lingering spirit of the dead, rise up!” Haile Gerima and his landmark film ‘Sankofa’ are being rediscovered. Finally. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z We never figured it out, but we did end up learning every lyric, which we shouted together like a shared incantation. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z KC reminds us of the power of three, which saturates culture in variants such as the Holy Trinity of Christianity, to the simple incantation of three-time’s-a-charm common to fairytales. Donald Trump’s “insult haiku”: Scholars are having a field day parsing the poetics of Trump’s “idiolect” 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Katrina says that only a spell will free the troubled spirit and enlists Abbie to help her with an incantation that eventually lets Mary RIP. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Weep No More, My Lady 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It was, said one contemporary, like watching "a magician, performing his incantations in public". A sublime trio 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z In 1974, when Mr. Braufman was deeply embedded on New York’s radical free-jazz scene, he recorded “Valley of Search,” a record of darkly melodic improvising and portentous incantations and extempore group explosions. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z It goes beyond the traditional tension and release and becomes incantation and ecstasy. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z With the right wrist snap and incantation, cauldrons stop bubbling, sheet music whizzes through the air, and teacups stop spinning. Hogwarts, West Coast edition: New Harry Potter theme park set to open in California 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z While Frédéric Boyer’s libretto spans a tremendous amount of material, the text doesn’t feel rushed, but as calmly solemn, prayerlike and formal as a ceremony of Gregorian monks, with choral incantations interjected throughout. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z After the downbeat Lost and Found, an incantation of drowning and rebirth over a poignant piano riff, Mason references a Frankie Boyle gag about Margaret Thatcher. Steve Mason – review 2013-04-12T16:42:19Z On “Separating,” her breathy incantations fit snugly into the equation: somehow both fey and reassuring. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Has a Miserable Crush and 12 More New Songs 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z “It was June 13,” the narrators remind themselves, like an incantation, “eighty-three degrees out, under sunny skies.” “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Wili’s contribution was “For Pauline,” a stagy, precious mix of incantation, ritualistic gestures and simplistic keyboard figures. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros Tribute at Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2012-06-03T22:18:50Z While upbraiding her for repeating the incantation, the innkeeper repeats it himself. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z Where there exists a liminal plane, where the difference between incantation and recitation is hazy. Sex and the cinema girl: Karina Longworth dives into '80s and '90s erotic films, revealing herself 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z At one point he segued into what sounded like a classical trumpet étude, exuding an impeccable control, before he moved on to a series of quavering embellishments and shivery incantations. Review: Ibrahim Maalouf Salutes a Great Arabic Performer 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The album’s lyrics arrive in melodies like ritual incantations, and they reflect on journeys and wars. Brian Eno: Ambient Sounds, but Political, Too 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z This was a CMJ full of demonstrative women, exorcising obsession and trauma with goth incantations. Critic?s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music 2011-10-23T23:43:16Z Lines from a letter written by Sam Melville, an Attica inmate who later died in the violence, are repeated, like incantations, over a seething, building din. The Composer Frederic Rzewski: In His Notes, Protest and Politics 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Even when three other band members were also chipping in on percussion, he in particular drove the night, as vital as Mr. Murphy’s flustered incantations. Critic?s Notebook: At the Garden, a Retirement and a Resuscitation 2011-04-03T21:54:34Z In “Who By Fire,” from 1974, one of his many songs that is both a list and an incantation, he itemized causes and sites of death, getting morbid while keeping a hint of puckishness: An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z I repeated the incantation to everyone: the doctors, the nurses, spiritual and mental experts. Shattered by childbirth 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z For Jonsi, it’s more mystical: a step from the carnal to the spiritual realm, where he lingers in sustained incantations. Music Review: Two Bands Ascending to Falsetto: A-ha and Jonsi 2010-05-09T22:35:00Z But it begins with the incantation of the voice of the narrative — not always the same as the voice of a character or point of view. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly composed the score, meshing birdsong and repetitive incantations, à la Laurie Anderson, to provide a rhythmic base for breathless running and flurries of locomotive invention. Raja Feather Kelly and Tzveta Kassabova Join Forces 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Dickens will teach any writer how to plot and can turn a sentence into an incantation. By the Book: Donna Leon 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Falstaff is terrified by the incantation of the 'Queen of the Fairies'. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z Part notebook, part incantation, part primal therapy, it is so esoteric it sometimes seems as if it were written in a language with just one speaker left. Review: In ‘Black Exhibition,’ a Playwright Exposed 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z At the beginning, Koné’s vocals are an urgent incantation amid reverent, hovering synthesizer tones, with a steady beat that slowly reveals itself. Rokia Koné, From Mali, Sings for the World. Especially Women. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Animal Collective, whose set was cut short by equipment failure — the band said it got no sound check — spun its songs into dizzying, overlapping, euphoric incantations. ArtsBeat: After the Rain, a Night of Rock 2013-06-09T19:08:59Z It was an incantation, not a dance tune; with Mr. N’Dour’s voice sailing over synthesizer chords, it was both mystical and contemporary. Youssou N’Dour Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Mitchell emerged as the focal point, with a trilling incantation that poured forth in a torrent, by way of circular breathing techniques. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The toll becomes a chilling incantation: "You can count them one by one, two by two … five by five." Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z And then, suddenly, the song turns ecstatic: An orchestra appears, her voice multiplies, the lyrics splinter from sentences to incantations: “transcend!” With ‘Divers,’ Joanna Newsom Is Clinging to Her Every Word 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z He was a soul man, stoking the dancing and then easing into a ballad, declaiming and lamenting and then building again, with his voice seizing every line and pushing it toward incantation. Mahmoud Ahmed Kicks Off Summer Concert Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The pioneering structuralist Roman Jakobson had famously promulgated six functions to language, but he hinted at the possible existence of a seventh, one in which words acquired the persuasive force of incantations or magic spells. Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z “What Belongs to You” whispers like an incantation of desire. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Time was when the lilting incantations of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas were viewed as visionary outpourings of a holy bohemian by audiences entranced by his mellifluous voice. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Charles layers four-part harmony and swathes of effects onto an incantation of “The beat!” and her band kicks into a scorching, slow-motion groove. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z About the size of a chess piece, each stupa contains a printed incantation sealed inside, all the more potent for not being seen. What Museums Don’t Reveal About Religious Art 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z She moved to New York in 1939, where she performed as a possessed woman muttering “voodoo” incantations and playing the drums. Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z But 8 of the 10 songs on “Tempest” stretch past five minutes, turning into down-home incantations. New Music: BOB DYLAN, review 2012-09-10T16:28:05Z Introspection gradually, and naturally, evolved into drama or exultancy; a percussive incantation, “Don’t Unplug My Body,” went through variations both assertive and seductive. Review: Daymé Arocena Mixes a Cosmopolitan Vibe With an Earthy Tone 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Letting loose with his big sound, often worrying a phrase into incantation, he worked toward a prayerful froth. Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z In its first set on Thursday night, the group was a study in roiling energy and collective incantation. Music Review: At the Jazz Standard, a Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie 2010-04-02T22:54:00Z Reverential organ chords and a muffled rhythm like a heartbeat are pressured, gradually but relentlessly, by increasingly stormy electronics; a melody that starts as an incantation rises as the lyrics offer painful details. The Playlist: Pusha T Spurns the Doubters and Kendrick Lamar Tempts the Critics 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z As they buzzed around the space, what sounded like casual conversation alternated with catchy songs and incantations. A Dance of the Unspeakable 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z More than an hour in, with the energy of the set suffusing the stage, he turns pieces of the melody into little incantations, coaxing a deep-bellied cry from his horn. John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z A Punjabi folk singer who backs ancient songs with some plugged-in instruments, and a major star in South Asia, Mr. Lohar unleashed incantations praising divine love in his gutsy, indefatigable voice. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z It was my first real understanding of the fact that poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it’s an incantation. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z It started with vocalist Attila Csihar onstage alone, his slow, glottal incantations sounding less like growls and more like the last of the bathwater going down the drain. Review | Sunn O))) is still conjuring heavy metal oblivion — but it feels more and more like bliss 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z He found business and court records, spiritual texts, fragments of Talmud, poetry, Torah scrolls, magical incantations and more. 'Sacred Treasure' tells engaging story of early Hebrew documents 2011-01-06T22:03:06Z The song — on which Yaeji oscillates between English and Korean — begins as a kind of free-form incantation, but all at once a slow, echoing drum beat drops and gives it a loose pop structure. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z They cannot be reduced to a gumshoe’s incantation: Dickens, in the parlor, with the knitting needles. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Like other incantations in the momcore canon, the sign is often printed on a purposefully distressed plank in a scramble of fonts — perhaps a gloopy typewriter style punctuated with bursts of spindly cursive. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z These artists claim the possibility that an incantation could be so powerful. In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The definition of "incantation" is a "ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect" and that just about sums it up. Season's readings: Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 2010-12-17T10:27:25Z You'll hear her astonishing range, some extraordinary ululations and incantations, vertiginous leaps, drops, cries and other wordless acrobatics. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z To those of a Calvinist persuasion there was little to choose between Catholic prayers and magic spells or incantations. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z It is also a comment on the financial instruments that caused the global crisis, some of which strike her as fictions with no more substance than the incantations of levitators. Taking on the B?rse, Abbie Hoffman-Style 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z I wanted to learn about Nazi book burnings, those bonfires that were known as Feuerspruches — “fire incantations” — in which books considered subversive were “sentenced to death” and thrown into a bonfire. Susan Orlean: By the Book 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The opening section's "incantation," with the horn approximating a shofar, possessed an elemental simplicity whose mood brought to mind the iconic sequence of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Review: Schwarz ushers in world premiere at Seattle's summer chamber-music festival 2010-07-29T20:33:00Z The music I wrote for the Vikings is characterised by both incantation music for the Goddess of the North – glittering and distant – and the lower instruments grumbling strains of physical exertion rowing an open sea. How Dorset's 1000-year-old Viking bones inspired my new oratorio 2012-07-11T17:41:33Z His spoken-word monologues, especially those made late in his life, sound like angry incantations, even though they are often remarkably wry and sardonic. Review | The Smithsonian censored him in 2010. Now, the Whitney is celebrating his grandeur. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z You either fall under this incantation, or you break away in frustration. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Edifices of counterpoint materialize around her; verses stretch and detour toward incantations. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, it exists as the album’s beating heart, her voice delicate and filigreed, turning the syllables of the character’s name into a hypnotic incantation. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Every word intimidates, but when placed together, they become evocative poetry, an unforgettable incantation of cheap and dirty horror. In ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Sympathy for the Devil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z This element of incantation recalls the last stanza of Philip Larkin's Money: "I listen to money singing … It is intensely sad." Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z So it’s this mixing in a non-lyrical, musical way, an incantation. Has former NEA target Ron Athey bled enough for his art? He's back with a new happening at the Broad 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z In the opening of the song Sina, his most amazing voice felt like an incantation. Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z And her performance of “Lazy Afternoon,” a signature tune, was a slow accumulation of masterstrokes: a beguiling incantation, breathy but controlled, with sliding pitch and shivery sustain. Review: Karin Krog, a Norwegian Star, Plays at Joe’s Pub 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The crime writer, whose latest Guido Brunetti mystery is “Unto Us a Son Is Given,” says Charles Dickens “will teach any writer how to plot and can turn a sentence into an incantation.” By the Book: Donna Leon 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The best things here are the sound works, with their poetic incantations, and some of the prints. Caroline Bergvall’s ‘Drift,’ at Callicoon 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z At the opening, set deep in the mists of history, we’re met with an incantation: Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The words are like an incantation, a spell — intoxicating for children and mercifully unannoying for parents, even on the hundredth reading. A New Phase of ‘Goodnight Moon’? 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Throughout the album, Mr. Kiwanuka sings as if he were in some private purgatory, offering incantations only he will hear. Michael Kiwanuka’s ‘Love & Hate’ Plunges Into Despair, With a Retro Feel 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z The song itself is luminous, its quiet power emanating from the guitarist Justin Canavan’s nimble arpeggios and Woods’s melodic incantation, “I’m better, I’m better, I’m better, I’m better.” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Take Control, and 10 More New Songs 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Onstage the music grew even more forceful, with Ms. Cherry’s voice opening up from girlish ease to bluesy incantation. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Here he leans into a digitized warble, delivering a dreamlike incantation with an undercurrent of silliness. Jazmine Sullivan’s Meditation on Courage, and 10 More New Songs 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z In better moments, the blurred landscape and timescape allow the language to become as lulling as an incantation. A Dystopian America Where a Woman Who Can Read and Write Wields Special Power 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He abruptly intercuts the different musical sources throughout the film, following a scene with drone-like chanting and two women’s incantation of a naïvely metaphysical meditation with one of Coleman’s catchiest blues jaunts. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Features With its invocations of the Book of Job and breathy incantations about the "way of nature and the way of grace", 's Palme d'Or-winning begins more like a prayer than a movie. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:43Z Via incantation, the three artists aimed to change not just our perceptions but our very consciousness. In 2 New Plays, Sound Design Is Front and Center (for a Change) 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Every stupid incantation they are made to chant. Apple TV+: should you shell out for the new streaming service? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The one foot stomping, the defiantly repeated phrases that sound almost like incantations, the ferocious pacing — Mr. Ansari has clearly studied his Chris Rock. Aziz Ansari Plays Madison Square Garden 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z We are, then, in the realm of the occult, strange gods and incantations, illustrated in an energetic visual style. David B. continues the secret history of 'Incidents in the Night' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z And music it is: a symphony of dialogues and monologues and almost choral incantations that seem to exist both immediately within and poetically outside of a very particular, finely detailed stretch of German history. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z But the food is distinct: Burmese dishes rarely found in New York City, each an incantation of ingredients chosen and prepared for maximal juxtaposition. Eating Globally: Hungry City’s Top 10 Restaurants of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z On this album, clear-cut intros, verses, choruses and bridges have replaced bleary incantations, and the music has moved from the shadowy haze of trip-hop to an emphatic, monumental clarity — high-end pop craftsmanship. Review: The Weeknd Makes a Bid for Pop Outreach on a New Album 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Ferrell mixes bits of narrative, collage-style, with snippets of news stories, with letters and lists and spells and incantations and social service assessments and the answers to tests and questionnaires. A Gifted Writer Returns With a Supremely Harrowing Novel 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z By virtue of titular importance it's the most potent incantation, and could perhaps have been used more sparingly. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z “I don’t want the look to be intimidating,” she repeated like an incantation throughout the afternoon. Countdown to Fashion Week: Hair and Makeup 2013-09-04T13:44:07Z Its songs, some of which are topical, draw on the rhythms and incantations of voodoo, the trumpeting of rara carnival music and hearty call-and-response vocal harmonies on their way to galloping, exultant dance grooves. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z That ritual incantation is repeated multiple times in 2049, with various watchful characters studying, analysing, zooming in on details. Sedate expectations: will Blade Runner 2049 give birth to the slow-burn blockbuster? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z These are depleted, lonely incantations: “I can’t please everybody,” “I choose me, I’m sorry.” Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Ritual and incantation, along with the use of herbal remedies, have long been pervasive across all aspects of healthcare. Were midwives the OG witches? How the history of mystic medicine and reproductive health intertwine 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Radiant wall panels cast their heat like a spectral incantation, enveloping your room in otherworldly warmth. 7 scary-good tips for keeping your home warm on Halloween and beyond | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z “Hauntings, exorcisms, incantations, forbidden love — “The Hacienda” transports one to a world where love triumphs over demons.” 8 fresh paperbacks to kick off fall reading season 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Though not technically a book, these incantations are collectively known as the Book of the Dead. 30 must-see arts events in Southern California this fall 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Huebner busily spun daily spells and incantations, cracking, “I haven’t been this tired since I flew to Transylvania on an economy broom.” With Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout hurt, the Angels' curse lives 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Everyone wants a turn with the hand, giddily allowing their friends to tie them to a chair, lighting a candle, chanting the incantation, inviting the spirits to take full-body possession. ‘Talk to Me’ review: A new star shines in this terrifying directorial debut 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z When he plays a recording, a priest reads an incantation from the book conjuring demons that take possession of Ellie — and let the gruesome killing begin. 4K and Blu-ray movie reviews: ‘Evil Dead Rise’ and ‘Renfield’ 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Somewhere before 2500 B.C.E. we start finding these mythological texts written down— narratives about gods as well as incantations. The First Kiss in Recorded History Dates Back Nearly 5,000 Years 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z After Seattle’s devastating June 6, 1889, fire, which burned nearly 30 downtown blocks, the incantation “fireproof” conjured access to a hopeful future. A fireproof ‘Cruel Castle’ rose on First Hill after Seattle's big blaze 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Democrats across the U.S. have recited this history like an incantation every time GOP officials push xenophobic policies in states where Latinos are emerging as a political force. Column: Can an anti-immigrant bill turn Florida blue the way Prop. 187 did for California? 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z When Harry first spots an eagle, he always shows his gratitude with a brief incantation. Perspective | Every morning, Harry looks for bald eagles. Most days, he sees them. 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Finally! — are busily trying to camouflage this vindictiveness with gravitas by uttering a somber incantation: “No one is above the law.” Opinion | How ‘no one is above the law’ became anti-Trump sloganeering 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In a sense, the novel fulfills its first line’s proposition: as an incantation of an artist’s name and, by implication, an artist’s way. Review | A mysterious rift propels the story in ‘Take What You Need’ 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Even after decades of survivors breaking the silence that once protected abusers and their institutions, "don't talk to strangers" still seems like a protective incantation. We're still way too afraid of "stranger danger" 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z "Unfortunately, I do not staunch blood flow. I bleed the enemies of our motherland. And not by incantations, but by direct contact with them." Russian Wagner boss acknowledges comparison with Rasputin 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Monosi became enchanted with an exquisite incantation she’d sung while in trance in the persona of a peacock spirit, naming each place as it flew across the landscape. This Spiritual Tradition Could Be the Most Poetic Bereavement Therapy Ever Documented 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Christmas, which in so much of the Western world is a commercialized affair, is an intensely spiritual day here, observed not with gifts but with community, incantation and candlelight. The 25 Travel Experiences You Must Have 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Residents recite it like an incantation, reassuring others — or themselves — that things will improve. ‘We’re All Over This Place’: Building a Fortress for Beijing’s Moment 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Three children evacuated from the Blitz complicate her life and the plot, which centers on a quest for the most potent incantation of them all. 9 Angela Lansbury favorites to watch and where to find them 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z His threat to use nuclear weapons must seem credible, and the repeated incantation of nuclear threats can undermine their effectiveness. In Washington, Putin’s Nuclear Threats Stir Growing Alarm 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in the cast, Philip Fletcher, playing a murderous fellow named Mula, allows melodramatic hokeyness to creep into a ceremonial incantation at a cemetery. Review | It’s movement, not dialogue, that carries Synetic’s ‘Host and Guest’ 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z That struck me as more than a routine effort to mend fences with the ousted leader and his wounded supporters; it was a ritual incantation, meant to keep the imprisoned demon in his box. So who the hell is Liz Truss, anyway? Even the Brits aren't exactly sure 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z “As the sentences got longer, they became like this incantation,” he says. How 9/11 and the pandemic inspired the timely premise of Mohsin Hamid's new novel 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z In other moments, as she strives to piece together her identity, the author’s sentences rings like incantations, as if she were casting a spell on herself and, by extension, the reader. She went to Colombia to exhume her grandfather — and returned with a blazing memoir 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The cathedral kept disappearing, and the image itself became ever more abstract, like an incantation you repeat aloud until it loses its sense. Perspective | Monet’s towering obsession In high, tremulous voices, the Sisters of the Holy Family were chanting their midday prayers when a child’s gleeful shout echoed from a nearby corridor, punctuating the solemn incantation. 'They belong here': Ukrainian nuns take in dozens displaced by war 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z And because Roe provided advocates of abortion rights incantations of “privacy,” not a sturdy scaffolding of reasoning. Opinion | Alito’s argument is less a refutation of Roe than a starting over 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “Everyone is reciting incantations that in no case can we allow World War III,” he said in a Russian television interview. Top Russian diplomat warns Ukraine against provoking WWIII 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “Everyone is reciting incantations that in no case can we allow World War III,” he said in a wide-ranging interview on Russian television. Top Russian diplomat warns Ukraine against provoking WWIII 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Buddhist monks chanted, the incantations broadcast by loudspeaker over a village where history’s aggressors and victims still coexist, where farmers’ landholdings grow smaller with each year. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Now, did I spend my blood money to go up nine levels in one big chunk and one of the five dragon hearts I earned to get a fancy new dragon incantation? I’ve made a huge mistake in Elden Ring 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But just to play it safe, the very first thing Le Bon sings on this album is a forthright incantation to help everyone keep their balance: “Trust in love.” Review | On ‘Pompeii,’ Cate Le Bon leans into strange times 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Hunter’s appearances are brief but darkly enthralling: With her hooded face, spooky incantations and contortionist gestures, she really does look and sound as though she’d been plucked from some distant medieval hellscape. On Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth,' a recommendation in five acts 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z When how we tell a story may determine whether or not we live to tell another, it becomes harder and harder not to wish for that old incantation that would let one take flight. How Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts, and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing, and reaped, as I knew, by luck and Heaven’s favor, in spite of the best advice. Poem: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Since the beginning of the year, as mass vaccinations loomed and “return to office” became an incantation so popular it earned its own abbreviation, workers under 40 have been notably resistant. To Get Ahead at Work, Lawyers Find It Helps to Actually Be at Work 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Elegantly intoxicating in its atmospheric construction, “Fever Dream” maintains its incantation to its very final twist. Review: The fears of motherhood blend with the unexplainable in the thriller 'Fever Dream' 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z It was filled with the usual incantations about her being flawless and perfect and the greatest of all time. Perspective | Biles redefines balance 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z That hasn’t stopped those determined to point fingers at the Chinese from bandying Fauci’s name as if it’s a magical incantation. Column: The right's attack on Fauci shows it has nothing in its policy tank but slogans 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The word extraordinary was uttered so frequently in connection with his stewardship of his family, his charities and his many military affiliations that it became a kind of incantation. Prince Philip’s Funeral Marks the End of an Era for U.K. Royal Family 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z For weeks, we practiced the Czech incantations that would deflect the Devil. Perspective | I brought my kids to the Devil for Christmas. And they’re fine. Right? 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z “Black lives matter,” they recited, as if in incantation. Review | How a Black Lives Matter co-creator built a movement from a hashtag 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z We devour the latest polls but tell ourselves not to believe them, casting salt over our shoulders and muttering incantations to the numinous entities of our choosing. Why is this election so painful? Because voting isn't real political power 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z He thinks he can become invisible again, if the incantations are right. ‘We Were Bulletproof’: As Child Soldiers Grow Up, Legacy of War Lingers 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z But now that the world knows Bre’s name, we won’t stop saying it until it becomes a kind of incantation to bind the devil in our divided justice system. Opinion | Our devilish, racist system made it impossible to get justice for Breonna Taylor 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Trump’s latest solution for the wildfires is something he describes as “forest management,” a term he continually repeats as if it’s a magic incantation. Column: Conflict over wildfire causes isn't about politics, but science vs. science denial 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Ideal for physical distancing, the genre requires an actor to find drama in the incantation of character. Review: Andrew Scott triumphs in the streaming one-man play 'Three Kings' 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps Trump understands this as a form of magical incantation; after all, he said the same thing four years ago, and it seemed to work. Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the postal police: Is this election really about "decency"? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z It had something of the power of incantation, but it did not seem a compulsion, and it was not a prayer. The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Andy says, staring into the distance, almost whispering the words like an incantation. Review | In a summer that’s anything but carefree, a lobster roll brings back memories 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z "I use my bare hands... but I make an incantation to the ancestors first," he said. The man who decapitates French colonial statues 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z He weaves a most powerful spell from them; the layering effect is like that of an incantation. Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways review – enthralling, mischievous – and very male 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z In that sense, "Make America Great Again!" is an incantation that channels the worst parts of America's past and present to hurt Black and brown people. Haunted America: The ghost of George Floyd and the ghost of the Confederacy 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z For the next hour or so, incense and incantations swirled. In Every Corner of Bangkok, Spirits Need a Home and Maybe a Strawberry Fanta 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The lawsuit alleges that the BLM movement is a religious one as it hosts “public ritualistic atonement ceremonies and incantations” and has its own religious symbols. DC mayor sued over 'Black Lives Matter' street painting 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z In Times Square, the minister wrapped up his speech with a special incantation. Inside the Fringe Japanese Religion That Claims It Can Cure Covid-19 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Happy, then, is less a song and more a sort of spell, an incantation, a self-fulfilling prophecy. In a time of crisis, the magic of Pharrell's Happy is needed more than ever 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In a riveting roll call — imbued with the incantations and solemnity of a church service — 100 senators, one by one, announced “guilty” or “not guilty” before a national audience. TV Ratings Declined for Trump’s State of the Union Speech 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z As a sculptor, she repurposes found materials with verve and aplomb, skillfully — sometimes magically — transforming ordinary things into extraordinary incantations. Review: Yassa, Septime, Burvis. Meet the magical women of Lezley Saar's world 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z "I’m not afraid of any devil or demon or incantation," she said. Hailey Bieber will dress up and eat candy 'for the glory of God' to celebrate Halloween, she says 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Chanting “Send her back” or "Build the wall" as though those were magical incantations will not save them. The wages of cruelty: Tormented by impeachment, Trump torments the weakest 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Teens in a remote cabin accidentally resurrect demonic forces with a taped incantation and the Book of the Dead. Movies on TV this week: Sept. 29: 'Almost Famous' and more 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z I had never heard the tech incantation “Ask forgiveness, not permission.” Four Years in Startups 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z A meditation teacher walked onstage, closed her eyes, and began a gerund-based incantation. Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Nonwhite American citizens will not be spirited out of the country by tweet or by incantation. Conservative Nationalism Is Trumpism for Intellectuals 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Over this establishing shot a girl is heard whispering a strange incantation. Review: Zombies are the threat in the dark fairy tale ‘Endzeit — Ever After’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Cabin visitors fight protean spirits of the dead with a chainsaw, a shotgun and Egyptian incantations. Movies on TV this week: Sept. 29: 'Almost Famous' and more 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z There’s no magical incantation to update flawed mindsets without blowback. Dealing with microaggressions — like being called ‘girl’ — at work | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Some gazed up to the road in curiosity as Latin incantations boomed from the loudspeakers. Holy Week continues, and Paris life resumes, without Notre Dame 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The incantation “Build the wall!” conjured up walling out and excluding everything that was threatening — dark-skinned people, scary ideas, social and economic change, even complexity itself. How to make a difficult situation awful 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Manuel speaks with a whispered edge, making almost every line sound like an incantation, coaxing Othello to cliff’s edge and then pushing him off. Review: Love spins into free-fall in A Noise Within’s ‘Othello’ set in present day 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The scene picks up speed as the testimonials get increasingly hyperbolic, eventually dissolving into an incantation: “Jesus! Jesus! Oh, Jesus!” Analysis | Which position will Zion Williamson play in the NBA? Whichever one he wants. 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Part poetic incantation, part eccentric kaleidoscopic vision, this is a story which contorts each time you read it. Bite-sized: 50 great short stories, chosen by Hilary Mantel, George Saunders and more 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The words of the disclaimer work like a repeated incantation before each episode, casting a spell that suspends our disbelief each week. 'Imaginary facts': what happens when fiction looks factual? 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z He says Clarion Call, part of the two-week Spill Festival, is a "pagan incantation". WW1 music event 'disrupted' by protester 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z You wield flimsy firearms instead of magical incantations or ancient swords. Red Dead Redemption 2 improves some of my favorite parts of The Witcher 3 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But the script also infiltrates the coven’s inner circle, laying bare the witches’ behind-the-scenes rivalries and giving their incantations an almost banal, bureaucratic hum. Review: Luca Guadagnino's 'Suspiria' remake casts a powerfully brutal, sorrowful spell - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z For those Americans who are better informed and grounded in empirical reality, "open border socialism" is utter gobbledygook, a political incantation akin to the "speaking in tongues" heard in some evangelical churches. Trump’s USA Today op-ed: The real point was to threaten his enemies with violence 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The three witches from William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” famously offered the incantation “double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” but Oct. Justice Brett Kavanaugh ‘hex’ ritual planned by Brooklyn occultists: ‘Bring your rage’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z He heard the word “abolition,” for instance, as a mysterious, forbidden incantation; he didn’t know precisely what “abolition” meant, but he could tell from the murmur around it that it mattered enormously. The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Over the years I have developed rituals and incantations: the solemn depositing of the phone in a separate room, the scorching shower, the banana nightcap. Finally, a cure for insomnia? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z His singsong speech wasn’t personal; it was like the chanted responses, an incantation passed down through the centuries. “Cecilia Awakened” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z She begins this story in a lonely bedroom, where an 8-year-old girl recites a playground rhyme that serves as a sort of incantation, summoning her 35- and 50-year-old selves. Review: In 'I Go Somewhere Else,' Inda Craig-Galván ponders black women's changing perceptions of themselves 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Paul Celan’s harrowing Holocaust incantation, “Death Fugue,” is the apparent inspiration for this poem by Marilyn Chin, a withering takedown of our so-called global diplomacy. Poem: Bamboo, the Dance 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z It is a wild incantation at the beginning of the big bummer. Indie Focus: New perspectives in 'BlacKkKlansman,' 'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z It worked like an incantation, magic every time. Celebrate Spring With an Upscale Smothered-Chicken Dinner 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The tablets, some from the Old Babylonian period, are mostly legal and administrative documents but also include an important collection of Early Dynastic incantations and a bilingual religious text from the Neo-Babylonian period. Ancient artifacts seized from Hobby Lobby returned to Iraq 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Twenty years later, I carry that nonword around like a sacred incantation, a prayer I say to the rising sun each day: DEODOTANT. New Sentences: From Tracy K. Smith’s ‘Wade in the Water’ 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z "I don't need to publicly declare it 300 days a year by repeating rote incantations in front of people whose opinions I don't value." A Hitler-Era Abortion Law Haunts Merkel, and Germany 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z “I see this as the second incantation of Hangouts,” Scott Johnston, director of product management at Google, said in an interview. Google launches Slack competitor Hangouts Chat 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z But for now, he remains unconvinced that they are directly responsible for these phenomena — referring to the many roles people ascribe to them as “magical incantations”. How flashing lights and pink noise might banish Alzheimer’s, improve memory and more 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z He explains that in some places the witch doctor, upon the birth of twins, invokes his or her spirit as he performs customary incantations and enchantments. 'They ensure each twin baby dies': the secret killings in central Nigeria | Orji Sunday 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z At Amoeba, Love sang a handful of new tunes, including “Only One Earth,” which had one of his daughters delivering an incantation about winds and spirits. Mike Love on his new album and that time the Beach Boys played a prison 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z In different times and places, verses were uttered in unchanging words and rhythms, evoking the spell of an incantation or a curse. Iona Opie, scholarly explorer of the lore and customs of childhood, dies at 94 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z “I see this as the second incantation of Hangouts,” Scott Johnston, director of product management at Google, said in an interview. Google launches Slack competitor Hangouts Chat 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z In a carnivallike atmosphere, Druids chanted incantations and people hawked eclipse souvenirs. Your guide to enjoying the eclipse from Seattle 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Druids, offering edible sacrifices, chanted incantations at clouds in a tiny farming town. Traffic jams, druids and clouds: How Seattle and the Northwest celebrated the last total solar eclipse 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The book often has a dreamy quality of reverie or incantation, as Verzemnieks — who teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa — reconstructs, imagines and inhabits other people’s memories and accounts of war and flight. You can’t escape your roots, they say. One writer shows why you shouldn’t try. 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z As he sprinkles, he delivers a flow of incantations. Demand for exorcists is soaring in France 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The meme artists got to work on that one, imagining covfefe might be Trump’s safe word, or else an incantation that could summon an ancient spirit wizard from the deep. The world took Trump as a comedy – but he’s turned into a horror show | Jonathan Freedland 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z These are the go-to images and verbal ticks of the mainstream war story, repeated almost as shamanic incantations of duty, honour and sacrifice. Call of Duty WWII is about killing for fun. Why pretend otherwise? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z But potions and incantations were not entirely new to Mr. Stowers. A Piano Man of Many Faces, and Some Stranger Stories 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s deep groove music he made, with a sound as indebted to the beat as funk, and as enamored of repetition as an incantation. John Lee Hooker: 10 of the best from the blues legend 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Simple: a magical memory wiping incantation directly tied to the Beast’s curse. 'Books, not boys': Director Bill Condon on updating 'Beauty and the Beast' and the whole princess/prisoner deal 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z As she made the leaps, she whispered an incantation: “Zardi ye man az to, sorkhi ye to az man,” which means, “My yellow is yours, your red is mine.” Fireworks Offer an Illicit Thrill Ahead of Iranian New Year 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z A leader’s constant repetition of “shamanistic incantations,” as Snyder puts it, and the people’s misplaced faith in an oracular strongman over evidence and reason — these are ways truth begins to fade. Review | 20 ways to recognize tyranny — and fight it 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Followers of magic are told to carve the president's name into the candle using a pin, recite an incantation, and then burn his picture in the flame. Witches cast 'mass spell' against Donald Trump - BBC News 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Richmond resident Alice Dixon, a 56-year-old retired teacher who calls herself a Reagan Republican, trailed Brat down the line, repeating an incantation: “What about Russia? What about Russia? What about Russia?” At a town hall in Trump country, an America that’s pleading to be heard 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The words are intoned repetitiously, over and again, almost as a prayer or incantation, to the point when everyone has long since forgotten what they actually mean. Will Trump’s presidency finally kill the myth of the special relationship? 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Yet the absence even of ritual incantation was both telling and alarming. Opinion | Trump sank to the occasion 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z At a few points, staff members drew a curtain in front of the machine, presumably to perform mysterious incantations — or just to restock the Snapbot. To Snag Snapchat Spectacles in New York, a Long, Cold Wait 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Speaking of the most popular mob-like incantation at Trump rallies, Stern said, “I see the cries of ‘Lock her up’ as the 21st century expression of character assassination through the ages.” The Clintons were undone by the middle-American voters they once knew so well 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z He describes visiting the “Messenger” known as Won Ja-kyong in 1973, and watching him and his followers chant incantations in front of brightly colored circles drawn on a wall. South Koreans ‘Ashamed’ Over Leader’s Secretive Adviser 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z As the action sweeps across epic vistas in a land before time, it offers up incantations, scheming and deadly serious quests — all while riffing on mainstay L. Frank Baum elements. NBC's 'Emerald City' gives Dorothy a gun and sends her off to a very different Oz 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z When he gets into his spirit filled groove, an incantation of names squealed in a raspy voice that radiates joy, Kimble says he is overtaken. ‘Shoe Doctor’ says Jesus has pulled him through 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z The test, produced with 3D animation and written by Ms. Rowling herself, quickly excited fans online, who used the social media incantation #ExpectoPatronum to share their results. Expecto Patronum! Patronus Test Keeps ‘Harry Potter’ Marketing Alive 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Those who regard Trump’s use of the words “radical Islamic terrorism” as a counterterrorism victory are engaged in magical foreign-policy thinking — the deployment of incantations in a global conflict. On foreign policy, Trump is the worst of all worlds 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z This two-word incantation means: Because we care so much for the Constitution, it is supremely important to entrust to Trump the making of Supreme Court nominations. The sinking fantasy that Trump would defend the Constitution 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In one sense, these incantations were merely an acknowledgment from Sanders that there is more that unites than divides Democrats of the center- and far-left. Bernie Sanders Goes All In for Hillary Clinton 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Thanks to their efforts, the word “Benghazi” has become an incantation no longer attached to details. Republicans’ Benghazi report seeks repetition, not truth 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Not all will buy Trump’s reinvention, no matter what sort of incantations transpired Tuesday. Trump’s born-again campaign 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z But after many years of magical thinking from their leaders, the faithful decided they wanted to bring on the wizard himself who really seemed to believe the incantations. Trump and the GOP’s Jurassic Park 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z That’s not a magical incantation, and Democrats have committed a tactical error in allowing the right to invest it with so much power. American crime: Maybe Omar Mateen used “radical Islam” as an excuse, but his heinous actions are all too familiar 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z It looked like it, after her incantation and laying on of hands yielded no result. 4 high points of episode 2 of 'Game of Thrones' 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Every so often, the priests peered into the screen and instructed her to mimic a gesture or repeat an incantation. For Hindus far from home, online religious services can be a valued connection 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z On Halloween, they would dangle cotton, shaped like a poodle, over the grave while chanting a weird incantation intended to summon the ghost of Bock. How did the grave site of a dead dog become a playground in ritzy Kalorama? 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z That included travel to Muslim-majority countries, where the frequent incantation of “God willing” was far from exotic — it reminded me of home. I used to be a flight attendant. Dealing with passengers’ racism is part of the job. 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z For many of them Aleppo "is like a sacred word, a magical incantation," says Watenpaugh. Museum of Lost Objects: The Armenian church in Deir al-Zour - BBC News 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z “Pat’s natural language was poetry … he wrote sentences that are like an incantation.” ‘Prince of Tides’ author Pat Conroy lauded after death at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z With Senate Republicans now determined to have the ninth justice essentially elected by the people, the traditional incantation before each session — “God save the United States and this honorable court” — has never seemed more urgent. Senate Republicans have birthed new troubles for the Supreme Court 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z "Excellent technique," intoned a Universal Studios Hollywood employee as another wand-waving visitor stepped up to try the incantation. With Harry Potter land, Universal banks on merchandising magic 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Singing quietly over strummed acoustic guitar, Welch turned “Dancing on the Ceiling,” that jumpy mid-’80s party tune, into a spooky incantation. At pre-Grammy MusiCares gala, stars of all stripes salute Lionel Richie 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Said Mohammed turns to oils, spices and incantations when he is called on to hunt down and expel a jinni that is causing harm to humans. In Zanzibar, a Traditional Herbalist Exorcises Evil Spirits If his clients want him to perform some spells or incantations, as in the old days, or read from the Quran, well, he’s ready to do that. A Stricter Islam Displaces Old Ways in Malaysia 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In the video for the title track, a blindfolded Bowie offered enigmatic incantations on life and death. 10 defining moments in the career of David Bowie 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Somehow the fog of war would clear if an American president said the words “radical Islamic terrorism” as a kind of incantation. Tuesday’s GOP debate separated the serious candidates from the loons 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It begins and ends with combat, and everything in between feels like a pause for breath, for murmured incantations, and for the licking of wounds. A “Macbeth” More Foul Than Fair 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z A priest mumbles incantations and bestows a posthumous name. Temples of doom 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Those closest to her suspected that she was possessed and called in local healers, who plied her with herbal brews and chanted incantations over her. In West Africa, a Mission to Save Minds 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The elders favored traditional healers who used herbal concoctions, incantations and spells to drive away evil spirits or remove curses. The Chains of Mental Illness in West Africa 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Lisa filled sparse piano melodies with a thick and honeyed voice that reaches a surprisingly high register when the pair’s otherworldly incantations need more power. Ibeyi: 20-year-old twins with haunting and melodic songs 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Spiritus Cheese” sounds like a character from a Harry Potter novel or perhaps an incantation a Hogwarts wizard might chant to make Stilton palatable to the lactose intolerant. Remembering the days when WHFS ruled a tiny slice of D.C.’s airwaves 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But occasionally repeating the magic incantation "if I decide to run" does not end the inquiry into his status. Jeb Bush: Presidential Candidate, Campaign Finance Outlaw? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The most recent incantation of these beliefs was given by Fifa spin doctor Walter de Gregorio in a display of comic indignation in Zurich on Wednesday morning. Why Fifa scandal is sport's biggest 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “Bless you, bless you, bless you…” she chants as she points her fingers at each of us, bestowing the magic of her sacred incantation. Blessings on the 6 Train 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The very names of the camps—Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Auschwitz—have the sound of a malevolent incantation. How the Concentration Camps Worked 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z He soothed conservatives, in part by reciting socialist incantations. Rise of the Red Prince 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z There’s no attempt to explain Jay’s tormentor as, for example, a Babylonian deity that has been inadvertently summoned through an incantation found in an old book. ‘It Follows’ movie review: Spooky stick-to-itiveness 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z After class I talked with my yoga instructor, Amy, about my disenchantment with the entire “balance” incantation. What Yoga Taught Me About the Balanced Life 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Various names and phrases, spoken like solemn incantations, attest to their sacrosanct status: the Point, the Long Gray Line, Annapolis, cadets. Abolish West Point — and the other service academies, too 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z In a separate attack on Saturday a 20-year-old man, shouting the same incantation, attacked three police officers with a knife before he was gunned down. France Hit by Second Car Attack in 3 Days 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z And whenever it get in trouble, it wields the word “innovation” like a magic incantation. Uber: Technology's New Great Satan 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z My friends and co-workers each have various incantations of fitness watches, and each of them likes them for different reasons, including the fact the software does what they believe is correct for them. Microsoft Band Review: The Fitness Watch Built for Running Needs to Walk First 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z He grins sardonically over incantations about “national security”. Just imagine Ben Bradlee as a ‘director of content’ 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The “war on women” incantation is mindless — a substitute for thought. In Colorado, overheated rhetoric from ‘Mark Uterus’ She refers to it only as the “Device,” an act of naming that reeks of ritual incantation. Pop culture’s newest apocalypse: Visions of a smartphone dystopia 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z One reason may be the frequent incantation of a motley collection of myths, each one rooted in bad economics: Shattering Myths to Help the Climate 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Instead, it sounds more like an incantation, a desperate verbal hum. The Weird, Scary and Ingenious Brain of Maria Bamford 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It is time for both American political parties to cease their ritualistic incantations of “no boots on the ground,” which is not the same as “no combat forces.” Bleeding Indicators: Piercing the Fog of War in Iraq 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Dozens of golfers left Amen Corner muttering religious incantations of a less approving and less worshipful nature. At Amen Corner, Masters Scores Turn for the Worse 2014-04-11T00:39:25Z Official channel Rossiya 24 TV the shaman dancing around a fire lit inside a yurt, beating a drum and chanting incantations to summon up the spirits. Siberian shaman prays for Olympic win 2014-02-17T13:47:40Z “Pitchers and catchers report to spring training,” an annual seven-word incantation. Boswell: With A-Rod gone, sun finally shines on baseball as spring training begins 2014-02-13T15:09:37Z Yet incantation of the word “progressive” doesn’t push the world forward; on the other hand, cutting the incarceration rate substantially, in defiance of national trends, is a pretty good season’s work. About New York: Rewriting the City’s Record on Prisons 2014-01-03T01:50:50Z “It is time for both American political parties to cease their ritualistic incantations of `no boots on the ground,’ which is not the same as `no combat forces.’ Bleeding Indicators: Piercing the Fog of War in Iraq 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z An economics professor at the United States Military Academy, I regularly invoke Latin incantation when speaking of all else being equal — ceteris paribus! — and tell occasional tales involving flowing robes or formal dinners. At War Blog: The Magic of West Point 2013-12-04T17:27:36Z “I’d say my incantations – whatever I wanted, I would say it as if it was real.” The Accident That Created An App Millionaire 2013-09-17T13:57:35Z Next time you hear someone on TV confidently state that “economists say” that high debt kills economic growth remind yourself that they’re chanting a mystical incantation, not referencing objective data. Whoops! Turns out debt doesn’t ruin economies 2013-04-17T11:45:00Z At one point, one of the assailants says: "For God's eyes and your Lord, O Bashar," an Arabic incantation suggesting actions being carried out in the leader's name. U.N. lifts Syria death toll to "truly shocking" 60,000 2013-01-03T11:46:54Z The lettering is elaborate, the phrase itself like an incantation. | Westchester: The Tiffany Reading Room, in Irvington Town Hall 2012-12-23T03:00:02Z You “learn” spells by saying the proper incantation and then waving your wand in the proper hand gesture, levitating objects or spraying water or light from the tip of the wand. The Ultimate Family Gamer Holiday Gift Guide (2012) 2012-12-15T22:07:07Z And no incantation, evocation or spell has ever done anything that violates the laws of physics. How To Get Superpowers 2012-12-13T16:11:46Z The old priest squats on the ground uttering incantations before cutting the chicken's throat. Ghana's camps for 'witches' and widows 2012-09-01T00:06:57Z And it is She who must deserve thanks for halting the Obama administration’s incantations about “pivoting” from Europe to Asia. What Happened to Obama?s Asia Pivot? 2012-05-20T08:45:00Z Thus, a sunshine-and-clear-water remedy, with the additives of incantation and evasion, not deep structural reform. Op-Ed Contributor: Pinning Down the Master of Evasion 2012-05-02T12:21:26Z In 1767, the people of Mull, in consequence of a disease among the cattle, agreed to perform an incantation. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z This is often true of spells, of incantations, and of solemn curses. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z He was skillful in compounding simples, the potency of which was greatly increased by his incantations. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Then follows a melodramatic incantation as the sorcerer deposits the philtre into a gigantic teapot. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z The gloom and the flickering light round the cauldron recalled Africa; Marston had seen the naked factory boys crouch beside their fires, tapping little drums, and singing strange, monotonous songs that sounded like incantations. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Finally they lighted their own hearths from the pile, while an old man repeated the words of incantation. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z In necromancy, spirits are summoned by means of spells and incantations. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z People tend to believe that Tebow’s public dialogues are dominated by religious incantation to the extent that he lives in an Evangelical bubble. On Pro Football: Jets? Tebow Could Push Sanchez Forward, or Out of Lineup 2012-03-27T00:21:19Z Sometimes, during the frosty night, they were gathered in groups about the flickering lodge-fire, listening to traditions of their forefathers, and wild tales of magic and incantation. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z He might have been repeating incantations, or weaving some mystic charms. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z By his prayers, his rites, and his incantations he causes the sun to shine, the rain to descend, the rivers to deepen, the plants to thrive. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Certain prayers and incantations were very effective in calling the spirit back to its earthly home. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z He cursed himself for his imprudence, but he said: “Oh, well, what must be will be,” and as usual the phrase acted like an effectual incantation on his frame of mind. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z He was encompassed by hissing rattlesnakes, which, Medusa-like, hung writhing from his head; and on the ground around him were strewn implements24 of incantation, and magic vessels formed of human skulls. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Here goes," and then pulling himself together he repeated the rhyme of incantation in a firm clear voice: "Little table, fair to see, Magic bell now summons thee. Fairies Afield 2012-03-18T02:00:20.790Z In times of sickness or of wounds, the Yahgans gathered about an afflicted one and with rude incantations strove to save the ebbing life until the spirit had gone forever. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z He began his chants and incantations and struck his war-club on the ground. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z The ancients firmly believed that blood can be stanched by charms; the bleeding of Ulysses was stopped by this means; and Cato the Censor has given us an incantation for setting dislocated bones. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z "Hasten, damsel, with thine incantations," said he, "the camp is now aroused and the dawn is at hand." The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z It was used widely in incantations and charms. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Mysterious, confounding as an incantation to those yet groping and staggering amid the night, the fog, the chaos of their own inventions! Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Then he poured awa into cups, passing them to all the people as he chanted incantations, all the company clapping their hands. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z The first thing that attracted his attention was a book of spells and incantations. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z All these articles, my informant assured me, were offered to the snake in regular succession, one after the other, the worshipper repeating the while certain mantras or incantations. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z We have spoken of the wild songs of their incantations, rising often into a dismal howl. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z He owes his authority not to his knowledge of the habits and haunts of fish, but to his store of incantations and exorcisms. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z We must wait until I have performed all the cleansing ceremonies, made offerings and incantations. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z The savages assembled in a dark swamp, where their conjurors, with incantations lasting several days, solemnly cursed the pale-faces, devoting them to destruction. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z They professed to raise spirits by incantation; and Kelly dictated the utterances to Dee, who wrote them down and interpreted them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z I should like to survey the scene there, it will be most entertainingly ridiculous, but they won't let us miserable scoffers assist at the incantation. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Old Jug somehow seemed feverishly excited; nodding and mumbling to herself, moping and mowing, muttering weird incantations, which were impressed on the air with a gnarled finger. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He taught him the peculiar incantations which would enable him to meet all cunning tricks and enmities of man. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z I shall make no dread incantations, nor shall any horrible apparition terrify you. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z But I told him that we would waive the rights of a mysterious incantation and look upon the affair as a commercial transaction. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z Now we know that charms, magic, amulets and incantations are just as useless in the practice of medicine as they would be in solving a problem in mathematics. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z We may add here a form of dance which is almost precisely equivalent to the spoken incantation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Taking the spirit he laid it on the dead body, at the same time reciting his incantations. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z But in no one of these was witchcraft condemned qua witchcraft; they were directed against those who, by means of spells, incantations, or compacts with the devil, threatened the lives and properties of their neighbours. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Muttering then incantations and charms, she called the gods of battle to arms, and the great fight for the rule of the universe began. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z In medicine he believed in charms, magic, amulets, and incantations. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The sunset hour was over at last, and the small household descended from the roof and entered their rooms, where the regular incantation was made and the prayers to Marduk and to Sin were said. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z This wai-lua spirit could be driven back into the body by other ghosts, or persuaded to come back through offerings or incantations given by living friends, so that a dead person could become alive again. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z She affirmed that they dug up from their graves the bodies of unbaptized infants, and having dismembered them, made use of the limbs in their incantations. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z How many more lines were devoted to it we do not know, nor do we know how the incantation proper, which followed it, and to which it formed the introduction, began. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z When he is taken out the Pandits pronounce an incantation, and place round his head a piece of paper setting forth the charge against him. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z Water, over which one hundred charms and incantations had been said, filled the purifying basin. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z He secretly uttered the prayers and incantations needed to secure the protection of his family gods. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z There was also a parcel of Forman’s written charms and incantations. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Sitting on his throne, he waited for the time when his son Merodach, the good of heart, came to ask him for those health-bringing incantations for the benefit of mankind. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z They sound like the words of a rude incantation. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Besides this, Beltani held the patronage of two of the great gods; and by their help, together with frequent incantations, had kept the devils of the under-world from inflicting upon her any particularly direful misfortune. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Prayers and incantations were part of the ceremony. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Mantra, man′tra, n. a Vedic hymn of praise: the matter of the Sanhita or first division of the Veda: a sacred text used as an incantation. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Then on a night of unexampled darkness he ascended the hill and wrought many incantations. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Until one reads these modern examples, one can hardly realise how veritably potent for good may have been the savage amulet, the savage incantation. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z She had kindled a little fire, cooked food for herself and Bazuzu, and was now on her knees offering up incantations to Namtar, the demon of the plague. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Kukali pitied the helpless state of his fellow-prisoners and prepared his best incantations and prayers to help him overcome the great bird. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z The so-called magician procured a large number of black cats, and devoted them, with solemn incantations, and while burning offensive incense of various kinds, to the evil spirits. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z She always went through some incantation before assenting, and then announced her price. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z He then looked round with an air of exultation, and strutted into the conjuring-house, where he renewed his incantations, and continued them without intermission twenty-four hours. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z All through the night he has worked over her with charms and incantations. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Kukali's incantation was of great power, for it threw him into a pool of the water of life and he was saved. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z So early as 1462, Pomponatus of Mantua came to the conclusion, in his work on incantation, that all the arts of sorcery and witchcraft were the result of natural operations. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z A fever was a demon, which was not to be expelled by virtue of any material remedy, but by incantations, spells, and magic. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z To Forbes her sharp voice came as a rescue from incantation. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z She is often spoken of as “the great physician,” and accordingly plays a specially prominent r�le in incantations and incantation rituals intended to relieve those suffering from disease. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Kamakau's priest hurried to the village temple to utter prayers and incantations against the enemy who had committed such an outrage. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z What the sentence does really mean is to me as profound a mystery as the incantations of a Gypsy thaumaturgist. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z We saw some commotion among the Indians this evening after dinner, and found they were muttering prayers or incantations, and making salaams to the new moon. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z The music had the power of an incantation; it had bewitched her back to youth. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The English of the ignorant classes look upon French very much as a clergyman does upon profanity, or as a missionary regards the muttered charms and incantations of a "voodoo" priestess. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z He took a piece of kapa and wrapped it up, carrying the broken body down to a fountain, where he cleansed it and offered chants and incantations until the child became alive. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Hence the first point in the reform was that new formulæ and prayers should be added to the old prayers and incantations. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z Not alone do those symbols commonly met with in dreams appeal here, but also new ones, e.g., the working materials of various performances, foremost of which is the incantation. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z There was a funeral cortege, and the mourners sitting by the bier; while the priests, with their incantations, mummeries and ceremonies, and genuflections, just by. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z Now follows the incantation, so called because Hamlet conjures the spirit to speak to him. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z This he did uttering incantations, but bubbles covered all the surface. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z He who can use incantations to the gods and spirits—can summon or remove them—is the mighty one, the powerful. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z But far more potent is that species of power exercised by means of magic and incantation. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z Her eyes shone restlessly, her breath fluttered in her throat, her heart ached and swelled with some vague, irresistible passion, as the waves of that delicious melody flowed over her, like an enchanter's incantation. A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.597Z When the incantation is finished, an orchestral phrase of keen despair and tortured hope accompanies Butterfly as she asks: "How soon shall we be starving?" Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z When the kahu heard her call, he put forth all his power and uttered the proper incantations. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Violence was wholly unavailing; mystic rites, incantations, and prayers were alike useless. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z The principal means of effecting incantations is to acquire control of something belonging to the party to be influenced, hair, finger nails, food from his table, even his picture or his name. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z This man makes some pretence at healing the sick, but rather with charms and incantations than by administering medicine. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The music of invisible harps fills the air, and as the Hindus again kneel a woman's voice, like a clarion call, renders an incantation that is rare and wondrous. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Hiku removed his finger from the hole in the cocoanut and uttered the incantations which would allure the ghost into the body. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z The mahkais used tobacco in their incantations, both for curing sickness and for making rain. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z The moment he had ended the incantation, the boar rushed out through the open door, and we knew not whither he betook himself. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z This efficiency is called into action by prayer, and by the incantations of the doctor. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The music of the incantation is again heard, and the phantom bids Hamlet spare his mother, but "fail not to avenge." Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z He tried to bring her back to life, but his incantations were not strong enough to release the spirit. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Then when good men shrank with horror from the incantations and rejected them, the twig was retained by the unsophisticated common miners, and in searching for new veins some traces of these ancient usages remain. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z I know nothing of these incantations and prohibitions," replied Dermat; "or if, as thou sayest, they were put on me in my boyhood, I forget them all now. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z What is there in his prayer or incantation greater than the prayer or drum or song or magic mirror of any other person? Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The silence is broken by a solemn chant from within the temple, and one soprano voice soars out alone in an incantation, mysterious and imposing as an oracle. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z At last she spoke, motionless like a spider in her web of glittering rays, and her voice sounded like an oracle in a screeching incantation. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z It was an incantation, as if saying the words could restore things to the way they were. For Penn St., a new week after the worst one ever 2011-11-13T20:09:08Z |
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