Sentences with phrase «kind of magic from»

The major leagueschedule, 162 games long, is built to prevent this kind of magic from happeningvery often.

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Emily, a psychic medium based in Brooklyn, New York, directly opposed my unrealistic, misinformed view of psychics from the moment I met her because not only does it turn out that she lives in my neighborhood, but also she embodies an even more mysterious kind of magic: the ability to be an everyday person, a working mom, and the possessor of an impressive gift.

We know wights can't get though the wall when they're animated, and we know some kind of magic protects the Wall / keeps the WW's from being able to pass through, but I don't think we have enough information to know whether that would prevent WW's from raising wights on the other side of the Wall.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

That in no way implies that some kind of intelligent being created it from magic any more than a drop of water condensing out of a cloud implies someone crying in the sky.

The atheist motto is: «It seems kind of dumb to believe that there's a magic invisible man in the sky who is all powerful but had to kill his son (who is also him) to save us from his own wrath because he engineered us in a way that we would want to break his «laws» just to test us.

Aside from tuna I have not had much desire to eat canned meat so I thought this stuff must be some kind of magic to risk having to deal with drug - sniffing dogs just to eat it on the other side of the border.

The reward is a humbled - ish Puig who recaptures the magic he had in his first two years, and that kind of player could be exchanged for exactly what the rebuilding team needs, unless he happens to be exactly what the rebuilding team needs when it emerges from its chrysalis.

Is there some kind of magic spell that prevents everyone from perceiving that I have changed my mind about the wisdom of homebirths and about the need to lower the C - section rate since coming to this blog?

We have all kinds of party additions from charming cupcake toppers kids can use to decorate their own dessert or fun magic potion crafts your party guests can use to practice before Severus Snape's potion class.

Many regard Hameroff as nonsensical, a creature from a Lewis Carroll story calling out from under a toadstool that we've got it all wrong, that some kind of quantum magic undergirds our brain function.

«Most of us,» she says, «are so far removed from that kind of transformative magic.»

It originated from a study back in the 90's where they looked at the performance of violinists and they showed that about the number of accumulated hours required to be a good violinists which is somewhere around 10,000 hours so it's kind of like the magic point.

So imagine this kind of magic happening: You walk in the door from a workout and your fridge will actually know that you exercised, making dietary suggestions with what's already stocked on your own shelves.

Any hints or help from others with a similar shape or is there some seriously awesome alternative that I don't know about where magic elves make you perfect jeans overnight if you leave out the right kind of girl scout cookies?

A young girl with hair like a forest fire makes a daring escape from a floating palace of some kind, dodging blobby demons and zipping into the moonlight on a magic broom.

Kudos to Channing Tatum for the kind of self - effacing star turn you wouldn't expect from an actor whose character is both eponymous and «magic»; cheers to Jada Pinkett Smith (as the troupe's hype - woman) and Andie MacDowell (as a wealthy society client whose chaste amusement ripens into something else) for stealing their scenes with the evident pleasure of consummate thieves.

From the looks of the teaser trailer revealed at the Game Awards at the end of last year, it looks to be the same kind of stiletto - wearing, ass - kicking, magic - hair - wielding action of the last two games.

It's hard to watch — and Nolan takes pains to confuse our allegiances in ways that suggest a very British class tension (Borden and ace engineer Cutter (Michael Caine) share a Cockney brogue while Angier, a Yank, is cut from different cloth), a certain nationalism, and, in the figure of Nikolai Tesla (David Bowie) at play mad - scientist - like in a mythical Colorado Springs, a clearly delineated duel between magic and the notion that technology before its time is a kind of witchcraft.

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain may be the ballsiest of all of the Hong Kong director's epic feats, an attempt to wed the action flicks of his home with the kind of big budget fantasy pieces beloved by Western audiences in the»80s, and later made ubiquitous by directors like Jim Henson and Wolfgang Peterson.

On the opposing side we have Durotan (Toby Kebbel), the noble Chieftain of the Frostwolf Clan who is battling to save his people and his family from extinction; Orgrim (Rob Kazinsky), Durotan's right hand and a brave warrior destined to wield the Doomhammer, a weapon of orc legend; Blackhand (Clancy Brown), known as «The Destroyer,» one of orc - kind's most fearsome and titanic warchiefs; and Gul» dan (Daniel Wu), a supreme orc ruler, fuelled by a dark magic that even he can not control.

An homage to a drug - themed counterculture show makes a lot more sense than the middle - of - the - film appearance, in silhouette, of Walt's Magic Kingdom, which rises from the purple clouds like some kind of slam of the chip on Bluth's shoulder.

«For your employees, it might be a kind word from the boss given at the right moment — even more of a reason to teach managers how to identify opportunities to express those magic words of «thank you,» she says.

I began my journey much like a small puppy, bounding from website to website hoping there was some kind of magic formula for achieving the quality mark.

Brimming with passion and adventure, Greg Keyes's epic saga of a royal family's fall from power through treachery and dark magic, set amid the return of ancient evils whose malevolence threatens to annihilate humanity, bids fair to become a classic of its kind.

Remember from the last time we talked about covers, you're still going to want a professional designer to take that photo and add the right kind of magic that'll turn it into a cover.

Through the magic of smart strategies designed to take advantage of Amazon's algorithms, you can go from «new launch» to «bestseller» and build the kind of momentum you need to make a full - time author income!

If you create the right kind of content, it can have the seemingly magic effect of going viral — passing from person to person at an increasing rate.

How to keep your dog from escaping is a frightening problem that has plagued many owners — though many may also simultaneously wonder if they should put their pup in some kind of Houdini - eque magic show to exploit his talents!

They are the kind of odds that would make a movie or book seem preposterous and detract from any story - telling magic.

In Riviera Nayarit, there's magic in the kind of luxury we offer, one that goes beyond anyone's expectations, from our breathtaking landscapes to our culinary indulgences.

We're a little over a month away from the big debut of Disney California Adventure's newest production, Frozen — Live at the Hyperion — which means there's all kinds of magic occurring behind the proverbial scenes.

Floating plants is the kind of magic you might see in an anime novel, so it's only fitting that this magical Kickstarter campaign comes from Japan.

In his 1902 treatise, A General Theory of Magic, Marcel Mauss observed that magicians of every kind have always worked in the wilderness, away from their society.

She now has the support of Hauser & Wirth and her story — a move from collegiate respect to global recognition — has a fabulous quality of the kind analyzed in Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz's classic study Legend, Myth and Magic in the Image of the Artist (1934).

One painting takes a brick pattern, the Magic Knot, used on the exterior of Dutch churches, a kind of labyrinth designed to trap demons and prevent them from entering God's house.

From lush vineyards, relaxing beaches, and beautiful snowcapped mountains to the vast studio lots where movie magic is made, California is one of a kind.

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They are the kind of odds that would make a movie or book seem preposterous and detract from any story - telling magic.

But the real issue was... did you get kind» a high dude from those glue vapours, as they increasingly permeated, then got hoovered as you panicked, up into your nostrils like some magic mushroom cloud being drawn to craneal infinity by an unwilling recipient in need of fresh air regardless of what was transpiring right beneath your olfactory probiscus member of middle - aged facedom?