| He creates a bad-dream atmosphere, a phantasmagoria of boredom, futile journeys, wasted lives and endless, incantatory meetings. |
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| As a corollary to their sequestration, the sisters have developed a kind of incantatory and interchangeable speech, often speaking in unison. |
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| The incantatory, magical, and ritual uses of song are also central to such plays as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, and Macbeth. |
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| Wells has received insufficient credit as a writer of rhythmic, incantatory prose, long-breath paragraphs to cut against his tight journalistic reportage. |
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| I love the idea of words having this incantatory quality – they become a kind of chant. |
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| This cycle of turbulences is gaining speed, while decision-makers' positions remain basically incantatory. |
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| I join my colleague in hoping that we will get past the stage of incantatory declarations and move on to determined and fruitful action. |
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| Displayed at the beginning as the outline of a melody, enriched with a rhythm, they look like an incantatory song starting. |
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| After these incantatory proclamations, they took the blood of the bullocks and? |
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| In four slim sections of incantatory free-verse, the poem addresses human desire, human invention, and death in elemental phrases and dramatically unpunctuated stanzas. |
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| She steers a fine line between braveness and bravura with nothing of the incantatory in her speech. |
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| With an incantatory voice, vocals use an anaesthetizing synthetic spirituality which makes this record indispensable, far beyond all systematic prejudices regarding these new hybrid currents. |
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| When you look at the Attic orators, the incantatory power of the shamans or mediacracy contemporaries, how can you still ignore the power of voice? |
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| In the ritualistic drama of ancient Greece, the playwrights wrote in verse, and it may be assumed that their actors rendered this in an incantatory speech halfway between speech and song. |
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| An incantatory cry of passion and loss, the novel is less closely related to traditional forms of fiction with their emphasis on plot and character than it is to lyric poetry. |
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| The lyrical and incantatory effect of refrains during the ballad performance is very appealing, but in cold print they often look ridiculous, which is perhaps why early collectors failed to note them. |
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| To heighten the effect of their incantatory music, Camil dressed the trio in tunics, ponchos, and veils that she crafted out of vibrantly coloured and printed textiles. |
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| A pioneer in the fusion of the bohemian sensibility with rock, she was able to translate the incantatory power of Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs into the rock mainstream. |
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| The progressive disappearance of the fight against land degradation and dryland area development from the policy agenda of donors in spite of a few incantatory reminders in international declarations. |
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| Indeed, we have been hearing these incantatory remarks for a long time, and by repeating them, we run the risk of weakening the credibility of the cause they uphold. |
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| As Igor Starvinsky always wrote at the piano, it is hardly surprising that the score of The Rite of Spring sounds just right: the powerful rhythm and the incantatory side of the work remain unspoiled. |
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