Sentences with phrase «not incantations»

The texts were not incantations.

In my view this is not incantation.

Not exact matches

Not only does the rhetoric of Crisis on Campus combine the sensibilities of a management consultant report with the urgency of a liberal - progressive manifesto tinged with futurist incantations, it is also an apocalyptic prediction of the consequences of ignoring his suggestions.

All those rituals, incantations, prayer beads, phials of holy water etc. aren't necessary.

Big invisible magic man chanting magical incantations does NOT provide any sort of meaningful answer that answers any relevant questions.

Jesus didn't give the Lord's prayer as a magic incantation (though many believers use it this way); it is supposed to prod us on to deeper levels of conversational prayer with the Lord as you point out.

Starting in antiquity, I found that the ancient Greeks did not generally approve of abortion, while their Roman counterparts favored the use of thaumaturgy and incantations.

This is applicable not just to baptism, but to prayer, where some Christians use this phrase as a magical incantation to validate their prayer before God.

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.

Of course, that hasn't stopped us from seeking to bind Him with human sacrifice, incantations, and legal covenants.

Reminders of the transcendence of God could be a helpful corrective: We can not bend God's will to serve our visions of the perfect human society, nor can we summon divine favor through incantations of equality.

In a magic incantation text which does not rise to the moral level of these great psalms of penitence, there is nevertheless to be found a remarkable list of what must evidently have been regarded as wrong by the best Babylonian thought.

Admitting that we do not yet know, but we are still looking is much, much, much, much, much more logical than saying it began with magical incantations from a being we can't even prove..

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.

It didn't seem to have occurred to the well - meaning vandals who'd thrown out baby, bath, and bathwater that all ritual is a reaching out to the unknowable and can be accomplished only by the noncognitive: evocation, allusion, metaphor, incantation» the tools of the poet.

Given the various wands and incantations at his disposal, it's not clear why Harry can do one thing but not another.

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?

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).

Museum Hours stutters serene unnoticeable incantations to sooth the soul, its ephemeral behavior infinitely seductive, it enamors speedily and the piecing together of its cryptic jigsaw is not something that you even feel the need to do, but you will try.

The lack of serious content concerns makes it tolerable for most older children who won't be frightened by Frieda's evil incantations.

If despite all this advice, you still can not find a home exchange, maybe you can resort to «a mixture of voodoo and pagan incantations», the ultimate trick of our member Marie - Anne, who has 27 exchanges under her belt!

An impressive amount of detail is paid to these, as each one has not only a different animation, but a lengthy text incantation that flashes on the screen as your enemies are destroyed.

At the same time, he is genuinely interested in rituals, not just as historical ceremonies, but as ways of bringing people and thoughts together, just as he is sincere in his approach to incantation and religious music, testing even the most secular members of his audience to reconsider their ambivalence about the «spiritual» in art.

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.

«In the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35 - pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques... In fact performing the full 35 - pass overwrite is pointless for any drive since it targets a blend of scenarios involving all types of (normally - used) encoding technology, which covers everything back to 30 + - year - old MFM methods (if you don't understand that statement, re-read the paper).

It is especially important to have regard to the findings about whether formulaic incantations which in rote fashion paraphrase the provisions of the Act and do not address the requirements of Form 4, could result in objections not meeting the requirements of section 76 and not being accepted.