Sentences with phrase «incantation over»

Similarly the coming of redemption depends not upon our power or on the practice of magic incantation over mysterious forces, but on our repentance and our return to God.

The word alchemy evokes an image of a medieval conjurer murmuring incantations over a boiling cauldron, attempting to turn lead into gold.

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Where the eye - sting of tear gas was commonplace and ants crawled through sugar bowls and old women on the streets sold llama fetuses over which witches might mumble incantations to change the people's unchangeable fate?

The moment has the eerie mesmerizing power of an incantation, but sure enough, here comes Petit in voice - over telling us about how this bird came out of the clouds and hovered there over him and dammit, movie, don't you know we have eyes and ears?

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.

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.»

During his performance Don't Make Me Over at the Tufts University Art Galleries on March 15, artist Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw - Cherokee) deconstructed Dionne Warwick's 1962 hit song into a strange, cyclical chant, part incantation and part love ballad.