Sentences with phrase «own magical properties»

Thanks to the runaway popularity of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, we're all familiar with «the 10,000 hour rule» and the magical properties of lots and lots of deliberate practice.

Anthropologists have long explored how inanimate objects and nonhuman entities - like «data» - can take on fantastic, fetishistic, or even magical properties.

While those espousing «egg mysticism» may continue to wring their hands and express doubts that the magical properties they attribute to the egg have not been fully overcome, such doubts are not reasonable doubts and would not constitute a legitimate moral indictment of ANT - OAR.

Jason, on the other hand, heard of a flute player whose sounds had magical properties.

The magical properties of coconut oil allow it to firm up quickly, while the almond butter prevents it from hardening completely.

In no event do we allow any advertising or marketing materials to depict individuals in states of intoxication, associate consumption of Purity Vodka with performing potentially dangerous activities such as operating heavy machinery, driving a motor vehicle, or participating in hazardous athletic activities, or make any claims that would indicate that Purity Vodka has any medicinal or magical properties.

Initially I was suspicious that the promotion of these necklaces would rely heavily on nonsense about the magical properties of crystals.

The students concluded that Skele - Gro must therefore contain unexplained magical properties that allow it to hold such a vast amount of energy — and be able to apply it in a short period of time.

At most, Indo - European mythology suggests that Late Bronze Age folks regarded dogs as having magical properties and perhaps ate them in rituals of some kind, Vander Linden says.

Maybe this is what I'll talk about on tour next year — about people who say you need some food that you've never heard about and is difficult to source, but that contains some magical properties that will get you through this diet.

This nanomaterial may have a plethora of near - magical properties, but as it turns out, it could also be bad for the environment, and humans too.

No matter if you're trying to lose fat, build muscle or just be healthier, everyone will tell you to avoid white rice at all costs and embrace the magical properties of brown rice.

All we're trying to say is: meat is already great as it really is; we don't have to give it any magical properties.

Lots of people expect that the deadlift or the squat have some magical properties that will help them turn into hulks overnight.

Oatmeal does not have any magical properties as a breakfast food.

From the Food Babe to Dr. Oz, claims of the magical properties of some of the so - called «healthy foods» below are grossly overstated.

Women's Health Magazine points out that water does not have «magical properties» but might help thwart off weight gain and possibly help you to lose weight for a number of reasons, here's two:

As each new injustice piles on the last, the image becomes ironically imbued with its own magical properties, symbolising the terrible absurdity that keeps beleagured women powerless while the lunatics take over the asylum.

Saoirse discovers a shell in Ben's possession, left to him by their mother, which whenever she plays it produces magical properties and summons a flock of fairies.

Created by alchemist Nicolas Flamel, The Philosopher's Stone possesses magical properties.

WIN WIN is a film that explores the ethics of motives, the magical properties of second chances given and received, the many shades of meaning that a speaker can bring to a scatological expletive, and the indefinable but undeniable power of pancakes.

Diamond fire is one of the most magical properties of a diamond.

Bezoars used to be thought to have magical properties, including the ability to act as antidotes to certain poisons.

Fully restored and expanded, Alsisar Haveli was converted into a historic hotel in 1994 and has established itself as a magical property, exuding decadence and luxury fit for royalty.

Pura Tirta Empul This temple is built around a sacred spring said to have magical properties.

These are no ordinary fish however, with the magical properties to either enhance your pet's abilities or transform them into other creatures either permanently or temporarily.

These odd stones, called Wyrdstones, have incredible magical properties and have quickly become the most valuable commodity in the Empire City.

In this instance it was the ability to be able to apply magical properties to my gear, therefore turning my cloak into a kickass cloak of invisibility.

As well as the Clear Gems that will be collected along your journey through time to defeat Dr. Cortex for the third time, you will also need to recover the gemstones known as the Coloured Gems with their magical properties.

Certain trees in Greenvale drop red seeds with magical properties, and George has been ritualistically slaughtering his victims after consuming the seeds in order to gain immortality.

[35] Also repeatedly featured are various religious items with magical properties, appearing widely in the games of the series.

Dungeons also conceal useful items, such as a boomerang for retrieving items and stunning enemies and a recorder with magical properties.

Their economies are driven by the azure mineral Ragnite, which provides energy and magical properties.

The procedurally generated islands are home to creatures natural and imagined, tranquil valleys and ruins with magical properties.

Thanks to the volcano's magical properties, these warriors have been given a special ability — they can can swap top and bottom halves between each other, allowing them to combine different powers.

While it is generally thought of as very rude sign, it also has magical properties as an emblem of fertility and protection against the evil eye.

All matter at 20 C has precisely the same temperature — unless you hew to the climatological view of the magical properties of GHGs, of course!

There doesn't seem to be much point in trying to blame me for your inability to demonstrate the magical properties of CO2, or even your inability to provide a falsifiable hypothesis in support of such a bizarrely unscientific claim.

The government seems to have a magical property that a private corporation does not seem to have.

The magical properties of water, changing state in our comfort range is responsible for earth temperature staying inside the bounds to support life as we know it.

The magical properties of «peer review» are greatly overrated - it's what would be called in less pretentious fields an old boys» club, and was described to me recently by one eminent scientist as, if you'll pardon the expression, a «circle jerk».

that CO2 has some magical property to create a perpetual heat engine in the atmosphere, well there you have it... it's worse than we thought.

The human rights activist Bianca Jagger described to a conference here how a substance that was invented only in 1907 and seemed to have almost magical properties, because it was practically indestructible, is now threatening an environmental catastrophe.

As if this word had magical properties that no one should be allowed to investigate.

Since no one has shown that fitting a curve, regardless of complexity, works with chaotic data (see the thousands of failed attempts with the stock market), claiming that it works at all is ascribing magical properties to it.

The third assumption is that a fitted curve somehow has magical properties to forecast the evolution of a chaotic system.

This constant B0 later takes on magical properties.

I don't want to pretend that the audit has some magical properties and is somehow better than every previous approach to cost containment.

Olive is confidently transparent about the components that make up the 06HD — the company's not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes by claiming to use mystery materials with magical properties.

While falling under a similar category as wands, there are some staves in this game that have no magical properties of their own.