| So artworks begin to take on the aura of talismanic objects of prestige and power which have value on their own account. |
| If the 25-year-old was less unassuming and more cagey, he would know that is not the sort of thing a team's talismanic striker is meant to say. |
| In primitive tribes, the names of people, places and things have talismanic powers. |
| The Englishman, who has just completed the best of his four seasons at the club, admits that he wouldn't be the player he is now had it not been for the talismanic Swede. |
| In an attempt to breathe new life into his wilting charges, Tena brought on the talismanic Blanco at the start of the second half. |
| In the 1980s and early 1990s he held a unique position in Scotland's political life, a talismanic figure in the campaign for home rule. |
