Sentences with phrase «casts a spell over»

Ultimately, though, one question overshadows all others: Is the toy capable of casting a spell over an entire generation of kids?

Until the church of our time finds alternate, graceful ways to mark the Christian life of adults, the sad secular holidays of mid-life crisis - retirement, aging, and finally death and dying - will cast a spell over the lives of Christians.

The witch had cast a spell over the children so that they screamed as if they were close to death.

Haiti cast a spell over me in 1978.

Like the wise old wanderer, this subtle, yet complex red is unassuming at first glance, but quickly revealed to be spirited and persuasive, with black raspberry, alpine strawberry, and forest floor flavors casting a spell over your palate, bringing you back sip after sip.

A native of Victoria, Texas, Reimann knew nothing of racing — «I wouldn't have been able to pick someone like Jeff Gordon out of a lineup,» she says — but her blue eyes cast a spell over Earnhardt.

And this one — a 1950's liquid satin, with her delicate and stitched appliqué and covered buttons frolicking up each arm — has most definitely cast a spell over me.

Midnight Special works because Nichols casts a spell over us, the kind that's all too rare, especially in the science - fiction genre.

He enchants, as his words become magic, casting his spell over his audience.

Andrienne Cruz (Azusa City Library, CA) said it will «cast a spell over adult readers.»

Here in our world, travelers often pack a comparable burden, one that's similarly glossy and seemingly just as useful but soon casts a spell over its owner.

For 50 years, The Kahala has been casting its spell over visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars.

A Caribbean paradise which remains unspoiled by mass tourism, it cast its spell over me last time I was there (2015), so I can't wait to return.

«Necromancers have cast a spell over the great warriors of the land.

In retaliation, the wizard cast a spell over Zelda, causing her to fall into an eternal sleep.

It has cast its spell over Lorwich, enveloping everything in its path.

We'll see whether it casts a spell over us in a review.

It was the kind of work that the anthropologist Alfred Gell described as possessing «the power that technical processes have of casting a spell over us so that we see the real world in enchanted form».2 Barlow has read Gell and feels at home with his «enchantment of technology».

A mysterious inverted universe stretches out beneath the boat, the moon casting its spell over the water's glassy surface, throwing pools of white light and brilliant flecks like fireflies across the lake.

Or if you're into The Lord of the Rings, write a graceful green rune in Elvish to cast a spell over those who might wander into your garden.

After casting a spell over audiences for a decade as Hermione in the Harry Potter film franchise, Emma Watson surprised her fans by announcing she was taking a break from acting to concentrate on finishing a literature degree at Brown University.

Cast a spell over your home in under an hour by making these stylish, fun — and rather hair - raising!

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If there is hope to be found in this painful political year, it is in the fact that the spell which liberal modernity has long cast over the Christian imagination might finally be starting to dissolve even as technocracy tightens its grip on our everyday lives.

Through the mysterious resources of language, that is, religion, and art acquire a special power to cast enchanting spells over disenchanted persons.

Whether it is Swaps dropping his head over the rail at old Washington Park, his muscles shifting supplely beneath his golden coat; or Seabiscuit and War Admiral straining neck and neck around the turn for home; or Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths; or the seal - coated Ruffian racing on the lead, right to her grave — they all cast a curious spell.

Anyone who has ever seen a little girl wearing a white bathrobe and a towel draped over her head pretending she's getting married or a little boy using a stick he found in the yard to cast wizard spells at the family dog has seen that imagination in action.

While we all know that good will triumph in the end, half the fun of any story comes the powerful ladies who cast the spells, hoard the treasure and try to take over the world.

That wonderful smell was like a spell cast over me, it almost made me tell my husband that we should go for number three, well for a good five minutes until that feeling of being knocked over by a wave and tossed around in the surf made me realize that I can't possibly have another baby.

Dirty in Public and Single Dating Diva cast a naughty (or maybe nice) spell over the podcasting world.

Dirty in Public and Single Dating Diva have cast a naughty (or maybe nice) spell over the podcasting world.

Be it their incredible features, fat at the right parts or a seductive sense of humor they are able to cast an amazing spell on men which one would never want to get over.

The narration spelling out the story seems designed to let the cast members completely contain their visible emotions; in an environment this repressed, Babette's subtle flicker of distaste over a local glop called «bread - and - ale soup» is the equivalent of a weeping fit.

In «Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure,» players will enter the enchanting worlds of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Ariel, Belle and Tiana, and use their magic wand to help undo a spell that's been cast over the kingdoms.

With a small, but fabulous cast that includes Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, and Irina Björklund, The American weaves a spell over its audience with stunning Italian scenery — namely the mountains of Abruzzo - and beautiful close - ups that reveal more about character than its screenplay, written by Rowan Joffe, does.

Before you download it, make sure you're ready to have its spell cast over you for hours at a time.

One character begins the film serving at a Tokyo maid cafe, casting «delicious spells» over the tea, and ends it as a leather - jacket - clad cool California chick.

Later in the film, Bobby leans over a walkway at dusk and lights a cigarette; suddenly all of the exterior lights of the motel flicker to life in response, as if he were a wizard casting a spell on a place that no one would associate with magic.

It's not that there wasn't time, either, over the course of these five hours, to address obvious misunderstandings and obscurities (why, for instance, doesn't everyone always cast the «kill» spell, since it seems pretty effective), as there was certainly enough time to pack in a horse - cart full of characters pointing to their chests and weepily declaring that their dead pals will «always be right here.»

Tony Award winners Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason and the rest of the original Broadway cast weave their magic spell over you in Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, directed by James Lapine, a seamless fusion of fairy tale characters and what happens after «happily ever after.»

She casts a dazzling spell over Larenz Tate and those watching her no - guff Nina fall in and out of love.

It's been a while now since Wong Kar - wai first cast his spell of melancholy urban enchantment over America's more adventurous moviegoers.

«Workman, who has created opening sequences for 10 Academy Award shows, casts a spell by combining over 200 gorgeous film clips with filmmaker interviews, music and quotations to create dynamic and evocative montages that deepen the exploration of a question for which there is no definitive answer.»

Provenance is simply the story that a car tells, a way to define the magic spell it casts over you.

Waving a magic wand and casting a protective spell over your vehicle would be convenient, but unfortunately, magic is only fictional.

Resentful of the spell that Prok, as those close to Kinsey call him, has cast over her husband, Iris alternately tolerates Milk's job and tries to woo her husband away from his work.

Writing his second article in as many days for TheFutureBook on it, Philip Jones — to my mind our lead reporter on this big story — captured the uproar nicely in The Guardian's How Pottermore cast an ebook spell over Amazon and, here, in TheFutureBook's Pottermore gets its wand on:

Each has its own mood; each casts its own escapist spell over those who hope to leave the everyday world behind for a night or two.

Smooth stone floors, elegant furnishings, and sea and garden views cast a dreamy spell over your downtime hours.

- Batman, Wyldstyle, Gandalf, and the Batmobile all come in the Starter Pack for $ 99.99 - complete the entire critical path with just this content - extra characters, vehicles, or weapons are sold separately - you may see ghosts flying around a level and need the Ghostbusters to take them out - use Scooby - Doo to dig and open up a new area - gameplay has you collecting studs, building and rebuilding within the world, and switching between characters - use Batman's grapple hook to tear down big obstacles - you can also drive the Batmobile to run over poppies (flowers that put characters to sleep if they're near them)- fight the Wicked Witch of the West - use the Lego Gateway outside of the game to avoid obstacles - when the Wicked Witch cast a magic spell, it can lock you into a position - when this happens, the Lego Gateway will flash red, save for one white safe area - move the actual figurine to the white area to be safe - every vehicle has three different forms - you must build and rebuild them throughout the adventure to get by - on mission makes you repower a gateway, but the generator is encased in blue Lego brick - build the Batblaster to use the brick - blaster and electricity shield to get by - in - game instructions tell you how to take apart the Batmobile and physically morph it into the Batblaste - use the sonar brick - blaster to destroy blue bricks

If that's not enough you can also throw dual wielding spells, weapons or a mixture of both, a total of 16 square miles containing five huge cities and over 150 dungeons to explore, 85 different spells for you to cast and an over-hauled AI system to help bring the world to life.