Sentences with phrase «like incantations»

My sentence must seem like an incantation to them.

Like the incantation of a powerful spell, Marvel fans finally heard the magic words: Doctor Strange is getting his own movie.

Like an incantation I find myself returning to what Burns said about priorities: «Maybe a bad choice, maybe an unconscious choice, but a choice nonetheless.»

The featured works are Cleaning the Mirror (1995), where one person carefully scrubs a human skeleton in a confrontation with mortality, Freeing Series (1975), where the voice, memory, and body are liberated, and Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful (1975), where the same phrase and action are repeated obsessively, like an incantation.

Not exact matches

When we do this, we are treating the words «in Jesus» name» like they are some sort of magical incantation by which we will get whatever we ask for in prayer.

The doctrine of Inspiration makes the Bible a book of magical incantations, to be flung out whenever «the devil» comes around, or when our spouse, boss, or neighbor simply does something we don't like.

All beliefs, faiths, prayers, sermons, incantations, etcetera, must, like language, be artificial, unnatural and unreal.

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.

But we must be ward ourselves against all such forms of Scripture twisting and treating the Bible like a magical incantation book full of secret codes and magical formulas.

During a visit to the Soho Anthropologie I noticed the Racquet and Net Chemise ($ 78) styled under the Incantation Cardigan ($ 88, reviewed here)... just like how I styled it in a recent OOTD!

While for a fan that's three months of waiting, for the devs and publishers that's three months of crunch time: production, distribution, and performing eldritch incantations in the server room hoping that launch day won't overload everything (like it almost always does).

Have you run into that at all yet, like having to do the big incantations and such?

It often seems a bit like wizard work requiring incantations, lots of smoke, and mirrors.

Like any sensible older brother Max immediately heads on to the Internet in search of ways to get rid of his pest problem, managing to stumble upon a magical incantation which once read aloud opens up a portal to another realm from which emerges the hand of a massive monster that snatches Felix away.

They feel like warnings, incantations and predictions that neither have basis in reality nor an audience apart from their author.