Sentences with phrase «as incantations»

I think that this is a moment where the sacred vocabulary of professional media («journalism», «news», etc), which we use as incantations to differentiate ourselves from the unwashed horde, now obscure the path forward more than illuminate it.

Children learn by heart the surviving portions of the periodic table and recite as incantations some of the theorems of Euclid.

Were they wrong to hear his music as an incantation off the beat, bound to a single key?

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions The Musical will unfold over the course of «Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon» as an incantation grappling with histories of queer and feminist world - making.

Not exact matches

Jesus didn't give the Lord's prayer as a magic incantation (though many believers use it this way); it is supposed to prod us on to deeper levels of conversational prayer with the Lord as you point out.

This is applicable not just to baptism, but to prayer, where some Christians use this phrase as a magical incantation to validate their prayer before God.

In my book, Dying to Religion and Empire, I talk about how some Christians view baptism as a magical incantation in which the right words need to be said in order for the magic spell to actually work.

As evidence that Jesus possessed magical powers, knew the right incantations or was on good terms with the prince of demons, they would be of most dubious worth!

No, they weild the name of God as if it were an incantation.

Having religious longings of a sort (he swore that the later poems were as religious as the early ones, though secretly so), he wrote like a helpless saint; but having faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of moving mountains except by courage and incantation.

Though Chick saw himself as an evangelist, he was perhaps better established as a conspiracy theorist — one who used his talents to convince readers that children could become demonically possessed through the Harry Potter books, or that trick - or - treating was a Satanic incantation.

In a magic incantation text which does not rise to the moral level of these great psalms of penitence, there is nevertheless to be found a remarkable list of what must evidently have been regarded as wrong by the best Babylonian thought.

These days, «public service» is too often a matter of incantation rather than fact, as public office has become an expression of ego rather than of conviction.

It looks as if prayer for other persons might be mere wishful thinking — at best an attempt at thought transference, at worst a relic of primitive magic and incantation.

Starhawk sees spells and incantations as ways of transforming one's own consciousness, purging oneself (individually or in groups) of depression, anger and hatred, and putting oneself in right relation to the self, others and the universe.

As you say your incantation, you are shifting energy at will.

By now, Daniel Radcliffe's owl - eyed stare, Emma Watson's nostril - flaring incantations, and Rupert Grint's slack - jawed swagger are as familiar as our own kids» facial expressions.

by Bryant Frazer If there's any doubt what kind of movie he's made, director Jim Wynorski dispels it in the opening moments of Sorceress, as B - movie bombshell Julie Strain appears frontally nude, lighting a candle and muttering a witchy incantation.

Superheroes and supervillains alike get axed, speared, burned, blown up, bashed, crushed, even dismantled, yet their super godlike abilities (especially the all - powerful magical incantations, and high - tech devices that seem more mystical than sci - fi) inexplicably award them extra lives as if they were the Mario Brothers.

It is a set - up as old as time, but this chilling, frequently terrifying work of horror manages to find fresh nightmare fuel in dark woods and incantations muttered in the moonlight.

You can bet your bottom privatization dollar that as soon as these edu - tourists hear any reasonable, evidence - based rationale refuting their radical positions on teacher evaluation, tenure or the use of Value - Added Measures, they will inevitably blurt out the one magic incantation they believe will repel all attacks, confident in its power to tug at the heartstrings of any parent / voter: «But, it's all about the kids!»

It's the size of the moon and weighs about the same as Ayres Rock, but thanks to four - wheel drive, clever launch control and some sort of voodoo incantation, the super-SUV launches to 60mph in a bonkers 3.5 seconds on the way to an 11.6 sec quarter - mile.

I was shocked that he even mentioned that her accent would hinder Scottie's appreciation of the French language, as everyone with an accent only enhances a new language, as each person who speaks the words of another country, brings their own incantations and inflections.

In Balinese culture, Garuda is always depicted as a man with bird head and a pair of wings sometimes with bird's tail though in sacred Garuda incantation, it describes in quite different way, the translation of this incantation into English will be as follow:

As my Black Mages chanted their incantations, the game's ruthless AI unerringly triangulated in and eliminated them.

Exorcists are known for their typical exorcism tools such as a cross, a Bible, maybe some prayer beads and ancient incantations but these guys are different.

An impressive amount of detail is paid to these, as each one has not only a different animation, but a lengthy text incantation that flashes on the screen as your enemies are destroyed.

The revolt was accompanied by an increased appreciation of Russian tradition as embodied in icons as well as in the oral tradition of fairytales, songs, incantations and sayings... Remarks by Malevich himself reveal a similar spirit... The absurdists [OBERIU group] who performed at Malevich's institute really did wish to undermine the credibility of the rapidly spreading, supposedly scientific materialism with their absurd actions.

Throughout these works, music resounds as both a cathartic release and an incantation that evokes historical chapters that are neither distant nor closed.

At the same time, he is genuinely interested in rituals, not just as historical ceremonies, but as ways of bringing people and thoughts together, just as he is sincere in his approach to incantation and religious music, testing even the most secular members of his audience to reconsider their ambivalence about the «spiritual» in art.

Ultimately, the works presented in Incantations: The Modern Cave are tied by what Georges Bataille refers as a form of transcendental experience explored by artists in their creation process: «to create a sensible reality whereby the ordinary world is modified in response to the desire for the extraordinary, for the marvelous».

Arthur Jafa: «Air Above Mountains, Unknown Pleasures» Opening: 6 — 8 p.m., Gavin Brown's enterprise, 439 West 127th Street What you should know: Jafa's stunning and shocking 2017 video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death is a celebration of blackness (or Blacknuss, as Jafa calls it, per composer and orator Rahsaan Roland Kirk) and a lament over its systemic oppression, set to the gospel incantations of Kanye West's «Ultralight Beam.»

Harnessing the familiar appeal of popular materials such as denim and pleather, rhinestones and steel studs, her completed compositions are lush and tactile, mysterious and imbibed with magical incantations and divine presence that transform the superficial into the transcendental, and ultimately elevate the baser materials so that they appear to surpasses the sum of their parts.

The title refers to the archaic incantation «Abracadabra» as well as to the homonymous disco song by the Steve Miller Band, popular in the 80s.

Incantation is, by definition, a series of words said as a magic spell or charm.

As an introduction for his show «Hippias Minor» at Deste Project Space this summer in Hydra, Paul Chan uses a beautiful incantation: «A breath that unites contraries is what one is always looking for.»

Together with Millie Chen's writing, which interests physically and conceptually with the artworks, this exhibition will work upon the viewer as visual and textual incantations for acts of incorporeal transformation.

Clearly Dr. Bain is the sort of well meaning but ultimately foolish folk who treat rhetoric as magical thinking, that if they come up with the right magical incantation, that their opponents will suddenly go, «OK, sure, here's my property, free speech, and other natural rights, silly me, what was I thinking, because you MEAN WELL.»

«For some, declaring a problem to be «randomized» is an incantation with the same purpose and effect as those uttered by an exorcist to drive out evil spirits; i.e. it cleanses their subsequent calculations and renders them immune to criticism.

Others have used phrases such as «vacuous incantations».

«In the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35 - pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques... In fact performing the full 35 - pass overwrite is pointless for any drive since it targets a blend of scenarios involving all types of (normally - used) encoding technology, which covers everything back to 30 + - year - old MFM methods (if you don't understand that statement, re-read the paper).