Sentences with phrase «as magicians»

As magicians and their assistants prance around stage, the music blares to amplify the excitement and drama.

Using distraction Much as magicians use sleight of hand to hide their tricks, so dog owners practice the art of distraction to take their dog's mind off of their fear.

As magicians Strange and Norrell — the first in possession of abundant natural, effortless but undirected talent, and the second something of a scholarly pedant — attempt to bring magic back to England, Clarke brings magic back to the world of literary fiction.

We read your books: the Tale of Desperaux, and the journey of Edward Tulane as well as the Magicians Elephant.

Especially when it involves something as spellbindingly silly as magicians carrying out a bank heist.

The event is free; open to the public and includes fun activities for the kids, such as magicians, balloon artists, music performances and much more.

The men mumbled to themselves as the magician stretched out his arm and watched as Jesus waved His magic wand over the lifeless appendage.

The atheist and Christian watch as the magician makes his assistant disappear.

Crossan describes Jesus as a magician bent on subverting the existing social structures.

Unlike many creationists, she finds the notion of a world evolving over billions of years theologically exhilarating: «That makes God a lot bigger than thinking of Him as a magician that pulled everything out in one fell swoop.»

Another familiar force is known as Magician's Choice, the equivoqué.

We see Alice in several guises: somewhere in Asia working as a magician's assistant, somewhere in America dressed like a vagabond hippie, driving a car wearing a smart suit in the suburbs, working as a nurse in the ER.

Woody Allen steps in front of the camera as a magician who gets tangled up in a plot to capture a suspected serial killer in Scoop.

Shortly before launching «Seinfeld», «Curb Your Enthusiasm» star / creator Larry David shows up briefly here as the magician's theater manager, his second of three Woody Allen movie roles.

Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist — but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.

He cast Welles as a magician in his 1971 directorial debut, A Safe Place.

James Franco is most believable as the magician of dubious morals.

So could any star in particular moonlight as a magician?

The slightly wan sophistication and weary urbanity exuded by Benedict Cumberbatch as the magician in training feel so right that by the time the Doctor has acquired his nattily bohemian goatee and swirling cape, Cumberbatch actually looks and feels stranger than Strange.

But the illusion is only as good as its magician.

Though nobody else in town can compete with him as a magician, he finds out what happens when someone tries to horn in on Angelo's racket, and having a hand sliced off serves as quite a warning to folks selling coke in the wrong neighborhood.

Struggle to keep control of your senses as THE MAGICIAN RANDY looses a litany of arcane conjurations!

Packing in his law degree (and a part - time job as a magician) to pursue game design, he was offered 2 jobs; one was for Lucasarts designing a Star Wars game and another for Apogee Software (who later renamed themselves as 3D Realms).

You will spend at least 50 % of the game as the magician due to the game's wealth of puzzles.

In this Android game you play as a magician defending the castle.

The second is of artist as magician, conjuring life in paint with a vaudevillian sleight of hand.

Furtive Gestures, Dave McKenzie's solo performance as a magician, which will explore the ways the gestures of black bodies (hands in pockets, shoulders askew, etc.) are said to signal danger or the need for surveillance.

Describing anyone as a magician feels absurd.

«The Artist as Magician and Trickster.»

In the early 1970s, at age sixty, Randi moved from a career as a magician (his stage name was the Amazing Randi) to a life focused on separating myth and illusion from reality as a co-founder of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

René Redzepi uses new technologies, but he also harkens back to a time of «chef as magician.»

One of the more interesting tidbits about Simon was that, while on the lam after jumping bail, he worked as a magician.

The Prestidigitator, previously known as Magician, is a monster that appears exclusively in Dragon Quest III.

Not exact matches

As we entered our room, we found the luggage rack expanded next to the bed, with a black magician's box sitting on top.

As a child magician, Shlaferman found the secret to inventing the coolest tricks was coming up with the most absurd idea, then reverse engineering it to figure out how to make it work.

As stage magicians and confidence men know, our brains have a tendency to «make up their minds before we do» — see things as we think they should be, rather than as they arAs stage magicians and confidence men know, our brains have a tendency to «make up their minds before we do» — see things as we think they should be, rather than as they aras we think they should be, rather than as they aras they are.

Mario the Magician should be reminded that the ECB does not have an employment mandate, as its only «concern» is inflation.

Philip moved from waiting on tables in Jerusalem to serving in Samaria as evangelistic front man for Peter and John, proclaiming the Messiah, performing signs, amazing the people and cutting into Simon the Magician's business.

Commentaries on Virgil and Virgilian legends» in which Virgil appears as a powerful magician» make up the last half of the book, which will be of great interest to scholars and devotees of the poet.

As a man of the world Naaman can allow that the power of one magician may be quantitatively different from that of another.

Naaman, then, is angry because he is not shown due respect, because he is mocked, because he has not been politely treated, and because the man of God has not acted as every proper magician ought to act.

Although many Christians seem to treat God as a behind - the - scenes magician who will do whatever we want when we want it, I hold rather to the Serenity Prayer:

Schakel notes, for example, how, if one has not first read The Magician's Nephew, Asian begins as a mysterious (named but unseen and hardly known) presence in Narnia.

This characterization is further enhanced by the activity of the magician, illegitimate priest as he was, who is commonly recognized to have been in some way ancestor of the modern scientist.

The magicians, sorcerers, and exorcists of the region were so frightened by Paul's powers, and yet convinced of the validity of his message, that they collected their books of magic and burned them publicly as they embraced the Christian faith.

I agree with Brian M. that his use of Luke 19: 27 as something Jesus said he would actually physically do was a intellectual magician's slight of thought.

I think the following story pf Jesus sums it up beautifully: As an Athiest, I can say he's a semi-fictional Jewish magician from the year 0... born in March or April, although we celebrate his birth in December, and killed in or around December, although we celebrate his death in March or April.

If the Bible is so vocal about magic then magicians had to be active back then, and since it never describes their feats as being mere tricks, it's assumed that people really did believe in actual magic, right?

Man, however, likes the magician's way better; he is naturally impatient; as a popular song puts it, he wants what he wants when he wants it; and in consequence he fails to carry on to a fine finish.

Einstein also used the word God, but it was more to describe the beauty of universe rather than a magician as said in most religious text.