| Adding an extra magical touch were the mechanical swans on the lake backdrop and the beautiful sparkling tulle costumes. |
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| It was the menacing warning that Liverpool may just have a rare touch of magical invention up their sleeve. |
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| I can concentrate my magical energies in a location that has been influenced by the power of magic, like these disturbances here. |
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| There's something quite magical about autumnal afternoons with the curtains open and the twilight encroaching. |
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| Yap had talked about his encounter with a magical talking fish who took him beneath the ocean and made him Lord of the Seas. |
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| The book is a magical talisman, and it remains to be seen whether the luck it brings is good or bad. |
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| To defend themselves, people turned to the usual battery of magical charms and talismans. |
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| Cultural genealogy, more so than ordinary genealogy, depends on a belief in the magical and usually divine auspices of lineage. |
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| In his hand was a long, crimson staff, and an aura of magical strength surrounded him. |
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| Hope has been replaced by magical thinking that augurs a second and more terrible level of social disruption and anger not far down the road. |
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| The fact is, if you'd written this book for a younger audience, I think it would have been more magical. |
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| A grove of crotons became a magical jungle where snakes and other exotic creatures lurked, waiting to pounce. |
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| The setting is rendered even more magical with white lights and luminarias for the holidays. |
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| The sword was far too heavy, so Raven took a saber and imbued it with magical strength and abilities. |
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| Another area where magical activity can fall foul of the law is the carrying of ritual knives and swords, for example the athame. |
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| Around its edges strange runes were carved into it, giving it a unique, magical air. |
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| Sometimes I think people lose all sense of reason when it comes to getting their hands on that magical half-price offer. |
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| The overriding selling point for all juices is that they attain the magical properties of both sensational taste and outstanding health benefits. |
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| The crow's voice was magical and lilting, as if it were playing an instrument rather than talking. |
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| So, needing some beauty sleep, and thinking whilst counting sheep, I went to bed, and a magical mantra came to me in a dream. |
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| Every stone of the edifice was marked with a rune, coursing with magical strength. |
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| Of the endless variety of ritualistic folk dances, many have magical significance and are connected with ancient cults. |
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| On a fine night the gardens are magical, dotted with folding chairs, tartan rugs and carefully chosen food that won't cause unwanted sound later. |
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| As one magical day follows another, the sun seems to linger longer over the yard arm. |
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| Unless they've some magical beastie to use for it, they've no choice but to move her by horse, wagon, or afoot. |
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| Scooty has been known to cycle around in the night clubs on his magical fold-up bike, handing out freshly baked rock cakes. |
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| By the third listen, however, you became aware that this was a magical record. |
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| Tremain's costume drama distinguishes itself by mixing just a drop of earthy magical realism into its ruffs and codpieces. |
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| It felt as if there was one of Cupid's magical love arrows sticking straight out of my heart. |
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| Mugabe is often seen sipping tea, eating cake and clapping at Harare Sports Club while revelling in the magical thwack of leather against willow. |
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| He attributed his enduring strength to the consumption of jamu, a medicinal drink of magical properties sold by street-hawkers. |
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| Now now Ally, he has been locked away in a magical prison for longer than we have been alive. |
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| It was held that one should not dig, bathe, swim or engage in anything in any activity on May Day, which might seem to have magical powers! |
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| The Tungabhadra river meanders gently through, and at night the boulder-strewn landscape has an almost magical quality. |
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| Korean Protestantism consciously and deliberately assumed the form of a magical religion, accentuating the present and this-worldly rewards. |
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| But there is something magical about whole cheese that needs to be properly cared for and lovingly matured. |
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| But it's the magical eight-minute closing track which sets the seal on this classic album. |
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| Yes, this is pike heaven all right and it won't be long before one day somebody banks that magical sixty-pound fish. |
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| He unpacked enough magical stuff to start making potions and balms for healing again. |
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| However, many Italians retained an almost magical belief in his ability to score diplomatic triumphs without involving Italy in a major war. |
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| The alchemist experiences death, life, rebirth, witnesses the magical properties of transmutation in the bain-marie as well as her own bodymind. |
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| It's a story about a teenage girl on a strange quest through a magical world. |
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| Shakespeare's magical comedy will be played out against a simple backdrop of parkland scenery, he said. |
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| Border City burned, the magical flames from Uriko's spell spreading out from near its center, engulfing the whole city. |
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| This time, the magical orb of fire burned with a black flame, much like that of the Shadow Reavers. |
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| Cybercafes, as a rule, exercise as much a magical power over schoolchildren as mah-jong over adults. |
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| The moment of straining to control the extra power had taken some of my reserves, sapping my magical strength. |
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| I'm really interested to know how you deal with incorporating surrealism or magical realism into your stories. |
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| Those who come to Clifden on Ice are guaranteed a wonderful, unique and magical time. |
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| It is the job of poets and mystics to show us the ordinary and everyday in a magical light. |
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| It was a magical evening which had been opened by the Vocal Union and ended on a high when the two choirs joined together. |
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| He can describe the seemingly most mundane of things and make it sound magical. |
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| The school was transformed into a magical wonderland where the children met Santa and two of his elves. |
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| As fascinating and magical as this world is, it's filled to the brim with hostile beasts and hidden dangers. |
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| Even though it was raining, freezing cold and windy most of the time, it is still a wonderful, magical place. |
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| Many of the buildings which look on to the sea were built in the Twenties in art deco style and look magical in the soft evening sun. |
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| The magical evening was completed with a curry at the nearby award-winning Indian restaurant, Encore. |
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| As the sun sets on the magical wonderland of sand, sky and water, another day in paradise always beckons. |
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| Choose a practice to organize your thoughts and transform the everyday world into something magical. |
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| During his extended stay he was invited to join a magical ceremony, where the music and dancing went on all night. |
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| He had only seen this on those fantasy movies about wizards and magical creatures. |
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| It is fortunate, then, that the Old City is one of the most magical and beautiful places that can be visited by man. |
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| The sun is conquering the winter and lends a magical enchantment to the snow. |
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| A layer of fresh snow covered the ground, making the whole place seem magical. |
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| Your article was a delight, featuring the magical friendship of Raymond and Miles. |
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| Lights both overhead and around the periphery make the courtyard magical at night. |
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| Rosemary and Yvan could not help being enchanted by the village's charm and magical setting. |
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| This coat, you see, with its magical properties has quite simply changed my life. |
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| The magical girl twirled and spun through the air with a natural grace, which she had achieved after only a day of intense practice. |
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| The next morning, Fiona woke up thinking about her magical evening at the prom with Dom. |
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| With a cricket ball in hand, his transformation from social knave to spellbinding performer is as magical as his bag of tricks. |
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| In the book you'll also find magic and monsters, angels and demons, magical swords and forbidden books. |
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| They could write the book on luxury, whether it's stays in country houses on the shores of magical lochs or voyages through the Outer Hebrides. |
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| You might want to hear a prettier version or be waltzed through a magical forest before I get to the point. |
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| I know it is a beautiful and magical time in a woman's life, I know all the advice-column blah-blah is absolutely true. |
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| Every race has magical and non magical people, these could be wizards, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, or sorceresses. |
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| Yes, the waters from the thermal springs that feed the town's impressive fountains and the blissful spa really must have magical powers. |
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| An unassuming but apparently magical dry-erase board accretes a roster of chores throughout the week. |
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| He aced the 226-yard eighth hole with a four-iron in a front nine of 29 that had him on course to break the magical 60 barrier. |
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| Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances. |
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| Transforming the party's policies for the next election will require a truly magical touch. |
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| The result is like a hand-cranked magical music box that surprises and delights. |
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| Come back to where you belong, awaken your senses with the magical touch of nature. |
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| Once people spoke in Mongolian, the magical quality of Mongolia nationality would appear, leaving us with a special feeling. |
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| A child's imagination and magical thinking are frequently much worse than the reality. |
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| Full of sparking little tunes, these pieces are huge fun and they contribute greatly to the magical sound world of this disc. |
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| A rainbow arched its bridge of many colours across the evening sky, nature's magical wave of the wand. |
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| Finally, the tumblers of the resistant lock had come round in the magical right combination. |
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| As a magical black box, computers were portrayed as a source of hope amidst fear. |
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| The minute viewers enter the Winter Garden theater, they step into a magnificent and magical junkyard. |
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| In the tale Alice, an innocent enough young girl, steps through her mirror into a magical world where she has a range of exciting adventures. |
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| The works of these authors inhabit the domains of neo-realism, modernism, postmodernism and magical realism. |
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| Our mothers cooked real food from raw ingredients, making magical meals out of very little. |
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| Should any negative psychic forces manifest themselves on the page, I'll merely banish them with magical white-out. |
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| Yet these same shapes become magical, their edges shimmer and shift, deceive and delight. |
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| It promises to be a magical event where dreams actually will come true on the night. |
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| Imagine, if you will, that you have the magical power to see two scenes ahead in a film. |
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| Others have an almost magical ability to pull programs out of the air at the last minute. |
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| Rural artisan winemakers are battling industrialist producers in a bid to preserve the magical results of husbandry and handcraft. |
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| She would hold it, gripping the handle as her father had taught her, and pretend to fight off giant ogres or evil witches with magical powers. |
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| The five enemy wizards felt the magical energy in the air, and knew that they were about to confront a great power. |
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| The people of Audrill were also magical but they could not combat the power of a wizard. |
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| The wizards' magical attacks were slowly building to a level that would be fatal to Solomon. |
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| A portal gate is a form of transportation used by those who possess magical abilities such as wizards or magicians. |
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| He's certainly going to have to be a magical wizard to put United back in the black again. |
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| Plus, with its magical smoothness, it's unflappable in bumpy corners, carving where other bikes are bouncing and shimmying. |
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| Alchemists, the tales go, sought to use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. |
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| Harry is an 11-year-old boy unaware his roots lie in the magical world of witchcraft and wizardry. |
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| The combination of fruit and a magical touch of oak is irresistible, especially with new-season lamb. |
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| Spend the morning canoeing then cycling, or kloofing, through the magical Wilderness reserve. |
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| Few bands, if any at all, can challenge their adroitness on stage as they are simply magical. |
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| A supremely gifted player with a magical touch, he combined charm and nastiness in almost equal measure. |
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| It's the perfect time to start over, rededicating yourself to adding that magical five portions of fruit and vegetables to your diet each day. |
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| Her room is overflowing with tiaras, troll dolls, magical cards, toy castles, posters, crowns, swords, and all manner of fantasy knick-knacks. |
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| There is fat chance of Tosh forgetting about this season, which surely has the makings of a magical 30-goal one. |
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| An aromatic woolly plant native to Crete, formerly believed to have magical powers. |
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| We transcend these limits to find a love that is magical and created by a force greater than us, just for us. |
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| At first, this may seem as magical as the fabled alchemy that could turn any substance to gold. |
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| Yesterday I used my magical powers to trim the hedge that runs along the side and in front of the house. |
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| Through yoga their kundalini rises, expanding consciousness, changing values and creating magical happenings around them. |
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| I mean, those things were not too hard for a magical all-powerful guy like you to conjure up. |
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| Only very rarely did a civilian enter the real Government building, which was among the most protected buildings in the world, magical and laic. |
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| Aztec art, with its themes of dismemberment and reintegration, was the inspiration for the fiction of magical realism. |
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| Our powerful imaginations and spiritual connections give us almost magical abilities. |
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| I cannot remember the last time an album so profoundly moved me, such is the magical beauty of the music contained within. |
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| That said, there are many so called magical aspects to tantra practice, notably the mudras, mantras, yantras, etc. |
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| The drawing of mandalas or yantras in the high traditions, floor and wall paintings by women in folk traditions, all display a magical structure. |
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| On a second visit, the salad beneath the asparagus with microgreens was no longer magical, but still delicious. |
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| Levet, who won last week's Scottish Open at Loch Lomond to qualify, showed a magical touch with the putter. |
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| The giant Schonbrunn Palace was created for the empress Maria Theresa and her 16 children, and it looked pretty magical by lamplight. |
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| He's hopped up all right, juiced from this magical, mercurial ride that just gets better with each season. |
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| A prodigious waterfall comprised of magical water torrentially down poured upon Seres. |
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| Now, it's a key prop for some LARPing, as well as a magical tool of mine, so I don't want to muss it up too much. |
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| As the lion and I depart the chamber I hear a tuneless toot of the whistle and the magical whoosh of the cloud of numbers. |
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| Then, of course, there's the Internet's almost magical ability to remove geographical barriers. |
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| Eduardo was born in Tangiers to Andalusian parents in 1955 and is the seventh son of a seventh son, regarded in mythology as a magical son. |
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| I barely touched the surface in my recent Andalusian trip, and realise I could probably never see all this magical region has to offer. |
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| In some ancient communities, singing was a magical power to be reserved only for special occasions. |
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| But in the subjective world, I can use this magical view, and, at the very least, believe my eyes. |
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| The coach will hope just enough of Rudolph's magical dust is left behind to sprinkle on his team. |
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| Evil people are really easy to predict after watching all of those magical girl anime. |
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| There are no miracle solutions, no magical answers, no easy everybody-wins way out. |
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| I keep raving about our magical lemon tree but I keep forgetting to bring any of its produce to her. |
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| Chastity sighed in relief, but fear quickly returned when she noticed the forest was no longer bright and magical, but dark and eerie. |
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| It includes magical incantations, but most of the text takes a methodical, empirical approach to diagnosis and treatment. |
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| From the 14th century, toadstones were set in rings for their magical properties. |
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| Kirby and Jason became magical on their skates smiling and dancing to the delight of the crowd. |
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| The puppet characters will include magical sea creatures such as mermaids and jellyfish. |
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| He believes their meditation leads to magical powers, like levitation and invisibility. |
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| Students, politicians and policy makers alike must recognise that there is no magical Antipodean discount in this cost-benefit equation. |
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| Get a Piece of Houdini Before He Disappears By Nina Strochlic A death-defying magical box. |
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| The Argentine tango is magical, intoxicating, romantic, and passionate! |
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| Renegade witch doctors have convinced locals that the blood, bones, and skin of people with albinism possess magical properties. |
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| Without these Muslim-hunters, we would be left unable to identify Muslims amongst us or their magical powers. |
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| It is not some benign magical sleep as shown on TV, where people wake up a year later and are instantly back to normal. |
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| She has been known to perform various magical acts, among them birthing a shadowy assassin that killed Renly Baratheon. |
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| Their captors wore palm leaves, leopard skins, and magical relics to make themselves immune to bullets. |
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| Wizards are always sticking their wands into any sort of magical affair. |
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| It blended the coming-of-age story, inspired largely by Dickens, with the magical wonders of Tolkien. |
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| It is reported that some cases of Levitation appear to be spontaneous, while spiritual or magical adepts are said to be able to control it consciously. |
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| A confluence of events so seemingly magical made for a mostly charmed film shoot. |
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| And where was this magical land of Khorasan, whence the conquerors would come? |
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| What he's looking for in a bona fide getaway place is fun, informality, joy, whimsy, self-expression, magnificent land, views and an opportunity for magical experiences. |
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| Keep in mind that Wicca is a religion, not just a magical system. |
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| For the first time, J.K. Rowling's novel proceeds in a manner that assumes that the reader is more or less familiar with her magical world of wizards and witchcraft. |
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| To do that he requires a rod of dragon control, and hopes to get his hands on the one the Empress uses to control gold dragons, offsetting the magical power of the wizards. |
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| This is a magical world brimming with wonders, diverse and remarkable. |
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| There's something magical about the marriage of the incredible mountain scenery, the West Coast ocean air, and the burn of some reefer in your lungs and mind. |
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| St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle is a possibility and very magical if the wedding is held near Christmas. |
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| The eve of All Souls' Day is celebrated in many cultures and countries, but a lot of the customs surrounding this magical day have their origins in pagan Celtic customs. |
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| There was a curtain of blue beads and green and blue shells threaded with shimmering silver yarn, turning the doorway into a magical entrance to a seascape. |
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| It's that magical time of year again, when everyone expects a new iPad to be right around the corner, which in turn means an amassment of iPad 3 rumors clogging up our lives. |
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| Her name and image are to be found on magical rings and amulets. |
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| Both are literally depictions of magical air, evocative of movement and potency stirring inside a writhing cloud. |
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| Although the magical scenery filled with priceless glass and crystal furnishings was spectacular and worth a closer look, the two had no time to marvel at it. |
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| What else is summer good for but using all of one's magical powers to levitate out of the city for as long as the sober judges of one's conscience will allow? |
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| The city's lights lit up the skyline and created an almost magical glow. |
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| In the past, some local residents poached sea turtle eggs to sell in the lucrative black market for their supposed magical and aphrodisiac powers. |
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| For those of you unfamiliar, this is the magical equivalent of a flamethrower that also launches grenades filled with acid. |
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| He has filled the empty apron stage with a magical, glittering and visually delightful scenes and tableaux to follow the fall from grace of the Master and his lover. |
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| We also have magical talismans, protective armlets, and other such armor. |
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| Not only is gal an amazing actress, but she also has that magical quality that makes her perfect for the role. |
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| Now, by special arrangement with concert promoter Raymond Gubbay and the Royal Albert Hall, Saga is delighted to invite you to a magical night at the ballet. |
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| Great Plains By Ian Frazier In a journey of 25,000 miles, Frazier makes flyover country a magical place. |
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| Beer lovers in their quest for lubrication buy cases of Bud and hope that they may find the magical ticket that will allow them to attend the event. |
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| The attribution of magical and personal properties to the contents of his work is consistent with his belief in the artist as shaman and art as revelatory. |
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| What he has delivered is a powerful and solid opera, beautifully attuned to the expectations of its audience, challenging but never going too far, involving and magical. |
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| Of course, this magical land would be home to armies of auklets. |
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| If the fever did not kill him, this magical taint surely would! |
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| Her magical ability to shrink people just by staring at them is also put to great use here. |
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| Nevertheless all were ready for a wonderful treat of that magical voice. |
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| It all makes wonderful magical sense until we get to the chapter on greed. |
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| The results, on beautifully finished, delicate porcelain, are magical. |
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| It was a magical evening in so many ways and one I'll never forget. |
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| The Fimbles live in a magical valley, a beautiful place like no other. |
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| In her new collection of short fiction titled Engum Vaanam, she has introduced a number of narrative techniques that range from fantasy to magical realism. |
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| The libretto is based on Perrault's familiar fairytale, but Petipa did much more with it than tell the story of Aurora's 100-year sleep and magical awakening. |
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| I was transfixed by the sumptuous food, all new tastes and textures, sprinkled with this magical green stuff that was fresh, pungent and pokey all at the same time. |
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| Yet still we lingered, savoring the last moments of the magical afternoon. |
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| Jupiter in Taurus makes magical links to Neptune and the Sun on the Summer solstice, Tuesday. |
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| The Ba Gua mirror is among the most well-known and commonly used of all the Feng Shui protection spells, remedies, or magical cures for improper placements. |
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| Performed by a series of exquisite marionettes, it is truly magical. |
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| The infinity Stones are six magical stones that, when inserted into the infinity Gauntlet, grant the wearer infinite power. |
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| Several roach over that magical 2lb barrier have been banked recently with anglers prepared to sit it out on bread flake being rewarded with the better fish. |
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| Irish and Scottish settlers brought European magical traditions and blended therewith local herbal practices to form modern Appalachian herbalism. |
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| The gods were frequently portrayed as riding the mythical Hippocampus, a magical sea horse first recognized by anthropologists in early Etruscan wall-paintings. |
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| The magical thinking lies not in saying that the world is interconnected, but rather in insisting that there is no overlap. |
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| When Tolkien published The Hobbit, the ring was nothing but a magical ring of invisibility that Bilbo found on his journey. |
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| But barrows, tombs, sacred springs, stone circles and surviving customs are satisfactory starting points for the study of non-revealed religious or magical rites. |
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| It doesn't hurt that Murdoch is being played by Dench, who achieves that magical balance of beatitude and pragmatism we have come to expect from her. |
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| From huge fans to Beatle novices, the magical mystery tour of locations relating to the band takes you all around the city from the Cavern Club to Penny Lane. |
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| All too quickly, of course, they are supplanted by giants, wizards, magical buses, and flying brooms. |
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| She also, from a dried up old toad, has transformed herself into a sparkling, magical femme with mysterious fatal charm after toasting herself under the sun for a week. |
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| The mixing of fantastic and realistic modes and the ragged edges he makes between invention and representation, has been generally described as magical realism or metafiction. |
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| McCoy will now set his sights on reaching the magical 300 mark. |
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| The island is a topsy-turvy world, a magical and terrifying place where the voyagers' encounters are unpredictable, filled with treachery, danger and wonder. |
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| They are called shabti, and were figurines which were put into tombs and were believed to be invested with magical powers to do work for the deceased in the afterlife. |
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| My essential piece of magical thinking around writing is that it is a relationship, a collaboration, between me and the mystery. |
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| Our African-American communities have largely bought into a form of magical thinking. |
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| To this recently returned expatriate, the latter sounds rather like magical thinking. |
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| This will be a follow up to The Year of magical thinking, her searing account of the loss of her husband. |
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| The markup is so absurd that it's barely worth borrowing picking up anything except special magical items. |
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| You're as likely to get mugged and beaten in Ireland as anywhere else in Western Europe, and rest assured, you won't be beaten with a magical shillelagh. |
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| The bell goes with me in second place, that magical ting-a-ling that always draws a roar from the crowd and puts speed in the stride of every runner. |
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| A timeless fairytale of true love and magical transformation would be reduced to a boring exercise in memorization and obedience. |
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| One of the most magical qualities of fishing is that only through experimentation do we discover new and wonderful ways of tricking our quarry into taking the bait. |
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| The Vampire Diaries sets an unrealistic precedence for both magical creatures and teenage hotness in small town America. |
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| For after having written books of magic for a magical age, Rowling has come out with a book of muggle life for muggles. |
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| Besides worrying about how the models would walk on the unsteady ground, audience members knew something magical would happen. |
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| But strip away all the hi-tech jiggery-pokery and you've still got a magical movie that resonates with real human warmth. |
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| According to Frazer, humans begin with an unfounded belief in impersonal magical laws. |
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| These magical baby blinis are topped with soured cream and best Irish smoked salmon for stunning canapes. |
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| Frazer saw myths as a misinterpretation of magical rituals, which were themselves based on a mistaken idea of natural law. |
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| But Ian knows a thing or two, so on May 27 seek out his moutan tree paeonies, a rare and magical sight. |
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| The horn itself and the substance it was made of was called alicorn, and it was believed that the horn holds magical and medicinal properties. |
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| This hastily ensorcelled collection of body parts is channeling raw magical energy. |
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| This may have been an accubitum with magical qualities of procreation for sterile husbands who slept on this stone. |
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| The primary symbol of the Sultan was a silver baton, which was considered to have magical properties. |
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| But, on Sunday, Townend had a magical day, and one has to remember how unpromisingly it began. |
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| By controlling matter at this size, nanotechnologists hope to fabricate devices and materials with novel, seemingly magical properties. |
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| A magical theater to immerse into the wonders of mathematics in a 3D theater through chromakey technology. |
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| It used various animal fables and magical tales to illustrate the central Indian principles of political science. |
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| Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. |
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| A large stone known as Maen Du'r Arddu, below Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, is supposed to have magical powers. |
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| Indian rulers adopted red serge jackets for their own forces and retainers as if to capture their magical qualities. |
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| Queen was a wonderful vehicle and a wonderful, magical combination, but I think it came close to destroying us all. |
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| He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound. |
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| Observing this, Oberon orders Puck to spread some of the magical juice from the flower on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. |
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| Thirteen tsarevnas come bursting from the castle like a magical apparition of angels. |
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| Star performance of the night, however, went to Halifax player Darwin Ursal who scored a magical five out of five on board one. |
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| And don't miss the magical Nightglow displays when music is synchronised to lit-up balloons. |
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| Even its seediest corners have a magical gleam thanks to 60-odd years of movie making. |
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| His magical scene transformations of overlapping moving scrims once again work as they should. |
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| One form of magical thinking is believing that bad things never happen to good people. |
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| Humayun Ahmed was a popular writer of modern Bangladeshi magical realism and science fiction. |
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| The national education reform effort has long suffered from magical thinking about what it takes to improve children's chances of learning. |
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| Submarine gurglings gradually surface, birdsong chirps, piano and harp snuggle nocturnally as we move towards a magical ending. |
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| Its illogical, it's magical thinking, it's always a step behind the terrorists, and it must cost a fortune. |
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| Under this magical thinking they can remain tax-exempt and continue to promise their donors anonymity. |
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| Hutson goes on to elucidate some of those advantages, one being the sense of meaning with which magical thinking imbues our lives. |
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| As Elaine is tending to her wounded husband, Lancelot is carried off by the Lady of the Lake who raises the child in her magical kingdom. |
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| I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. |
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| I think there are ways in which some people talk about the novel being magical realist or having magical realism qualities. |
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| Miss Doughty is a fan of Thomas Hardy and the magical realist works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. |
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| It's either magical realist work, or horrific work, or folklore, or just imaginative fiction. |
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| He said that it's magical how his car that boasts of the vanity plate DRAWONME lifts folks' moods. |
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| In Babylonian mythology, Inanna had to pass seven gates to find Tammuz so that he could play the magical flute. |
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| Here, the magical realist mode, or the indigenous modernist mode reasserts itself booby trapping women's entrance into the discursive modern. |
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| His magical realism is never too cute, instead leaning toward a dispassionate, documentary portrayal of unlikely interpretations of ugly events. |
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| He cites, as a major influence, the magical realism of Such writers as Jorge Luis Borges. |
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| Instead of magical realism there are hints about the strange effects of the servants' potions, effects that are usually left vague. |
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| It refuses to allow the term magical realism to be a cliche for South American fiction written in the last decades. |
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| Haunting language and touches of magical realism create a tastily creepy tale. |
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| He has charm, presence, an almost Lisztian glamour and intensity, hunched over the keyboard producing magical sounds. |
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| Unlike other sects of Buddhism, which condemn ritualism and worldliness, the tantric sect revolves around rituals and magical traditions. |
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| A magical mixture of stunning guitar work and studio wizardry, The Axeman Cometh's fifteen fantastic tracks will leave you breathless. |
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| Some modern Druids also use ritual staves, a symbolic magical instrument long associated with both Druids and wizards generally. |
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| They used Apple Mac laptops and a design software package to create their very own comic strip about a magical egg. |
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| Dr Nuri said there is no quick fix or magical solution to the problem of radicalization and militancy as this problem has taken decades to ripen. |
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| It's a magical tale, though with no muggles, mind you, or whomping willows. |
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| The event hopes to capture the magical moments covering the Raiders, Spitfires, Hurricanes, Balmorals, Rangers, Bruins and Eagles. |
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| They have a magical knack for fixing anything, and they can teach you how to, do a back dive or change a bike flat. |
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| This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. |
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| Some Germanic tribes even believed that women possessed magical powers and were feared accordingly. |
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| They cleared a maize plantation by the aid of magical tools and otherwise distinguished themselves thaumaturgically. |
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| Apart from these twelve gods, Greeks also had a variety of other mystical beliefs, such as nymphs and other magical creatures. |
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| Rhyming groups appear on some early bracteates that also may be magical in purpose, such as salusalu and luwatuwa. |
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| It was known that the toad could poison people and, as the witch's familiar, it was thought to possess magical powers. |
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| The antelope's horn is prized for medicinal and magical powers in many places. |
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| A race of giant supermen lived in Thule, linked into the Cosmos through magical powers. |
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| In Gaelic folklore, it was considered a particularly dangerous time, when magical spirits wandered through the land, particularly at nightfall. |
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| A number of inscriptions are memorials to the dead, while others are magical in content. |
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| Before sending it she rubbed her perfume on it like a magical charm. |
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| Paul, who talks about what the magical papyri do, has in his first letter to the Corinthians described basic aspects of alphabetical language. |
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| The inyanga's job is to heal illness and injury and provide customers with magical items for everyday use. |
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| Matholwch was deeply offended, but was conciliated by Bran who gave him a magical cauldron which could bring the dead to life. |
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| Sodor was a magical land that was supported by a magical railway line called The Magic Railroad. |
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| While these magical cures are flying about, would it be possible to find one for small-mindedness and bigotry? |
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| Some of the magical objects listed can be shown to have earlier origins in Welsh narrative tradition. |
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| Levin can indulge in the magical thinking that someone else pays for their care. |
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