The pages began to move, but Lombard shut the book before he could see what his question had conjured. |
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My overactive imagination conjured up images of me opening the curtains to see a face pressed against the glass, eyeballing me. |
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Visible in news reports and conjured in fans ' feverish minds, the hikikomori is now spectacle, exactly what he can't imagine. |
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When I first saw the album, the name conjured all kind of horrid musical possibilities in my mind. |
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Her mother had conjured up a new outfit for her, an incredible pair of close-fitting jeans, a sweet pink tank top, and a white zip-up sweater. |
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I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. |
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Her playing conjured up the tremulous voice and imperious manner without quite replacing it. |
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But, alas, like all conjured foes, the biblical piety contained in his book is a mere phantom of the real thing. |
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All day though, she had secretly entertained the idea and conjured up fanciful fantasies about her becoming a stage actress. |
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Yet it is not merely the insects and tides that are conjured by the indigenous name for the region. |
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Samit Ballal, who conceptualised the place, has conjured up the eclectic menu. |
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Once upon a time, this phrase conjured images of deadly inner-city riots and calls for revolution. |
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We conjured a dead spirit into a pumpkin lantern and chatted to her via Ouija board. |
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But at the same time, you're broke and there is not a thing in the pantry that could be conjured into food. |
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She has a strong physical presence, and her supporting cast of flaky models and dodgy men is conjured up with elegant economy. |
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And is Canada at risk of not getting any of the great new products being conjured up in the US labs? |
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But, of course, no one would have minded a bit if England had somehow conjured a couple of second-half goals to steal victory. |
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Such relationships take time to build and can't be conjured out of thin air in the midst of a presidential campaign. |
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Somewhere at the back of every cook's mind, there's a handy little list of meals that can be conjured up out of nothing. |
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Their turn, we are told, will undoubtedly come and they will be made to pay the price for whatever ills are conjured up against them. |
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With her entire heart, with her innocent soul, her mind conjured images of surf, sand and beach. |
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Now mention a trip to Cyprus to a young footballer and immediately certain images are conjured in their minds. |
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But what futuristic visions are conjured up by recent advances toward human genetic engineering? |
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A sense of fear and threat of the unknown are conjured up with a dexterous use of language and word play. |
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What would make the readers sense, imagine, experience the reality you have poetically conjured to finally bring home the theme or message? |
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The days when organic food conjured up images of overpriced vegetables decomposing before the eyes are well and truly over. |
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We are well aware of the grandiose plans that are conjured, supported and implemented by politicians on entering office. |
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To succeed as art, sci-fi and fantasy have to persuade us to suspend our disbelief in the world being conjured up. |
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His mind conjured the most amazing, most subtle and cruel plan to exact his revenge. |
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Maybe I dreamed it, or perhaps the dream was what the shop sold, a fantasy of southern warmth conjured up like a charm in the chilly north. |
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Bonnaroo conjured images of hippies gathered in mass quantities, dancing and listening to their favorite jam bands. |
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As he readied himself to leave, his mind conjured up images of cities, strange new lands and exciting adventures. |
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The images conjured from her words linger long after the last page has been turned. |
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More direct running, allied with better movement on and off the ball, allowed a few better chances to be conjured up. |
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But that conjured up another question, which was not as answerable as the first. |
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Typically, these beauties portray loas, or spirits, which will be conjured during rituals involving trance-inducing drumming and dance. |
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By the 1820s, though, the adjective also conjured nonathletic activities such as gambling, drinking, whoring, fire fighting, or simply loafing. |
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Sensing that his armies would be routed, Ethelred conjured up a scheme to prevent them from facing the enemy head on. |
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From the opening notes of the Allegro vivace assai, the Berlin players conjured up Mozart in the best Viennese manner. |
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Noonan's party bombed in the subsequent election, but the photo his team conjured up became one of the campaign's most enduring images. |
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Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage. |
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They are unelectable malcontents who recognize no irony in their complaints and won't take responsibility for the mess they have conjured. |
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Then, just as we are immersed in the realism we've conjured for ourselves, bang! |
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Despite this Muir conjured up their fifth try with their livewire scrum half Cussiter scorching in from 30 metres. |
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Head chef Craig Rushworth has conjured up a menu full of scrumptious food that is almost impossible to choose from. |
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The travellers conjured up a world of fairies, selkies and giants to give their kids a bit of moral guidance, not to mention a little fun. |
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Bovell and his band conjured up an atmosphere of potent menace and seething sensuality. |
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With the benefit of clear thinking the men on the field and the mentors on the line conjured, then executed, an unlikely escape plan. |
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He observed that ideas of shapes or figures, like the triangle, were ideas of things he had not invented or conjured up. |
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Some fans have spoken in rather distressing language about incidents of crushing that conjured up, in their own minds, memories of Hillsborough. |
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Whatever mojo Campbell had conjured up previously, his methods were now clearly failing. |
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But 2004 conjured up several memorable turns, including the likes of Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa and Tom Cruise in Collateral. |
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The phrase conjured up the image of a hive of busy accountants in green eyeshades, scouring the tax code for hidden exemptions. |
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Atoms with a mind of their own have conjured up some scary images in science fiction, of nanorobots going out of control. |
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He passed his son through fire, practiced astrology and read omens, and performed necromancy and conjured spirits. |
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I was woken just before nightfall, by Erin sitting down on the bed I had conjured up. |
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At first I thought Steve had conjured up the entire brouhaha to drum up publicity, but no. |
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The smell conjured up terrible, dog-like images of danger and violence, and the hackles on the tomcat's neck stood at attention. |
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The Allies raid the camp where the occult ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon has already been conjured. |
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For generations, its very name has conjured up the glory days of Britain's railways when steam was king and every town had a station. |
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She's conjured up enchanting white raincoats, and using antique looms has reworked old cashmere cardigans. |
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Leaders with political and intellectual responsibilities conjured up those evils, and the results are on their hands. |
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Although I broke the law, a mountain was conjured up from a molehill. |
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My imagination conjured up some horrible thoughts with these shoes, what happened if they fell off the horse and couldn't get their foot out of the stirrup? |
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A country finds itself looking to him and expecting the World Cup to be conjured up, as if this single man could somehow prevail in the 15-man game. |
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For years, fine dining has conjured up images of French fare, with terms such as gourmet and haute cuisine reinforcing the idea that France does it best. |
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The thriving democracy conjured up by prophets of unification can quickly disintegrate into tribal war. |
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The book actually began in Malaysia, during a four hour taxi ride, when the author's mind conjured up a scene which he knew was just too good to let fall on stony ground. |
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Once again he flicked his hand up and four zombies were conjured up. |
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Each face is conjured from eloquent pencil lines and blurs of paint against a virginal white swath of satin, hung vertically like an iconic banner. |
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These are common tricks that are routinely conjured up by the conscience-hunters whose divine vocation it is to enlist mercenaries for their unholy schemes. |
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Hoarding has always conjured nightmare scenarios of impassible rooms filled to the brim. |
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The ghost of George Orwell may be conjured too readily and too often, these days, but this truly is Orwellian. |
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In any case, they were all clearly under the spell of the work itself, and the seething inwardness of the poetic vision conjured up by Barenboim and his orchestra. |
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Her pale ivory skin and smallness conjured in him a need to protect her. |
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It was the nearside that proved to hold the fastest ground and Spanish Don emerged from the pack as jockey Leo Keniry conjured a late surge to steal the win. |
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The teams' effortless passing and movement conjured two second-half goals. |
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He was tackled twice, he stayed on his feet and he conjured up a goal. |
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To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless. |
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They used to be called fitters, and conjured up images of fusspots, who toiled away in dark workshops designing and constructing oil-covered dirty machines for industry. |
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But while the ancient imagination doubtless conjured up giants in plumes of gas from fumaroles, the earthquakes that Pliny described so casually were more than just portents. |
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He conjured up a dissemblance of his own, a side-show of Powell being sent to the area of Sharon's crime against humanity to arrange a cease-fire. |
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You conjured the invisibility of our foundations in a slave economy. |
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Such a self-referential approach, however, has again proved a forcing house for structural wizardry, conjured by Arup magus Cecil Balmond. |
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They conjured a world of primitive magic in which evil spirits could not be given their true names for fear of increasing their power. |
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Tolkien, channeling something similar, conjured the Eye of Sauron. |
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And that conjured up whisky, bolshiness, attitude, not caring who's watching, doing what they like. |
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The heavenly smells are being conjured up by Italian panettone, German stollen and cranberry and orange Christmas mince pies. |
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A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty. |
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For decades, stories of red mercury have conjured a lethal substance whose near-magical properties might quickly turn a terrorist or tin-pot dictator into a mini-superpower. |
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