Sentences with phrase «sorceress of»

Included in her paintings are Alice, from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Medea, the sorceress of Greek myth.

Were my office or apartment closer to Chelsea, I would make it a point to drop in a few times on the current Marianne Boesky Gallery exhibition of paintings by Svenja Deininger, Viennese sorceress of subtlety, if only to confirm the long - term appeal of its initially seductive first impression.

The main characters include Link, a Hyrulean knight - in - training; Zelda, princess of Hyrule; Cia, a dark sorceress and Lana, a sorceress of light.

In her latest novel, Cynthia Ozick confirms her position as our sorceress of disenchantment, our wizard of lost illusions, the closest we will ever come to the irretrievable magic of broken spells woven by her idol Henry James.

In her latest novel, Cynthia Ozick confirms her position as our sorceress of disenchantment, our wizard of lost...

Maleficent focused on the evil sorceress of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella expanded to cover the wicked stepmom more.

Light and darkness have each chosen a champion to claim the legendary stones: The sorceress of the cult of she - dragon has chosen Drakkor, a warrior and mercenary who travels with bandits and a corrupt stone of darkness.

Morgan Le Fay, a sorceress of the Arthurian legends, was the original.

Not exact matches

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

When Kateri went to chapel, stones were thrown at her; she was mocked and ostracized; deprived of food; and had her good name defamed: She was falsely branded a sorceress and seductress.

So, Christ fulfilled the Old Testament's prophecy, the Old Testament's «lesser» dictates are obsolete (otherwise Exodus 22:18 has us all out killing sorceresses), but the Commandments remain divine law within a general stricture of «Be excellent to each other.»

The gender of the first offender is feminine («sorceress»).

My husband is now convinced that you're some kind of sorceress because you can make hummingbirds sit still and eggplant look delicious.

Sort of resembling a sorceress... not intentionally though.

She's depicted as a Medusa - like snake charmer, complete with serpent - like tendrils of hair, who some called a sorceress.

Narrated by Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins), once Alexander's general and now ruler of Egypt, the story begins with the unhappy marriage between Philip (Val Kilmer), the one - eyed king of Macedonia, and his wife Olympias (Angelina Jolie), a bitter sorceress obsessed with poisonous snakes.

When Freya learns of her sister's demise, she summons her remaining soldiers to bring the Magic Mirror home to the only sorceress left who can harness its power.

In terms of story, Into the Woods starts off harmlessly enough; the central plot thread has a Baker (James Corden) attempting to reverse a witch's curse that has left him and his wife (Emily Blunt) childless - with a bug - eyed Meryl Streep playing the sorceress in question.

The film opens with a Nietzsche quote and sees Arnie, in his first major headline gig, infamously punch out a camel and bed a shapeshifting sorceress en route to avenging his parents» death at the hands of James Earl Jones» mystical snake cult leader.

The movie is from the point - of - view of the eponymous evil sorceress (Angelina Jolie), who cursed Aurora (Elle Fanning) to a permanent sleep on her 16th birthday.

Anyway, the tribes come together and hire a group of Akkadian assassins, led by Mathayus (The Rock), to kill the sorceress.

The quest is complicated by the desertion of their maverick brother Edmond (Jonathan R. Scott) who is beguiled with promises of princely power (and all the «Turkish Delight» he can eat) by the monarch - stealing sorceress.

A pair of Christians in Sony's «Risen,» a sorceress in A24's «The Witch» and a barrier - breaking track star in Focus Features» «Race» were no match for the foul - mouthed superhero of Fox's «Deadpool.»

In her big - screen adaptation of Shakespeare's mystical thriller «The Tempest,» Academy Award ® — nominated Julie Taymor («Across the Universe,» «Frida,» «Titus») brings an original dynamic to the story by changing the gender of the sorcerer Prospero into the sorceress Prospera, portrayed by Oscar ® winner Helen Mirren («The Queen»).

Young - and - naive - and - lacking - the - confidence - of - sorceresses - which - means - she - is - ripe - for - manipulation - but - when - she - finally - transcends - the - crap - she - has - a-chance-to-be-loved-as-herself-and-not-as - «the - third - wheel - with - Yen»»

Zym wants to bring his wife, a sorceress, back to life so he can become a god and rule all of ancient Hyboria.

Now the much - maligned sorceress gets to tell her side of the fairytale.

Hyrule Warriors is a spin - off of the series and centers on Link and friends endeavouring to take out a sorceress named Cia.

She is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain some semblance of a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High.

Forming a new «league» with sorceress Zatanna, otherworldly Deadman, and Jason Blood and his powerful alter ego Etrigan the Demon, this team of Dark Arts specialists must unravel the mystery of Earth's supernatural plague and contend with the rising, powerful villainous forces behind the siege — before it's too late for all of mankind.

The dark sorceress Cia has opened the Gate of Souls...

The story focuses on a sorceress named Cia, who is responsible for maintaining the balance of the Triforce, as she becomes infatuated with Link, a humble Hylian soldier - in - training.

Meanwhile, Kira's rule is backed by the witchcraft of a sorceress (Rinko Kikuchi), so the 47 ronin Oishi assembles will have their work cut out for them.

By the time Lara has found the lost tomb of the sorceress, we've lost interest.

But she refuses to do that, even though it's been seven years since he disappeared during the hunt for the tomb of a Japanese sorceress.

After learning of her sister's demise, Freya then summons her remaining soldiers to bring the Magic Mirror home to the only sorceress left who can harness its power.

The island contains the tomb of Japan's first queen, who, according to legend, was some kind of homicidal sorceress.

Memnon has been using a sorceress (Hu, Cradle 2 the Grave) with powers to predict the future of his battles, and while Mathayus tries to stop Memnon, he steals away his most precious of possessions — the seer herself.

What begins as standard Brothers Grimm enchantment turns through - the - looking - glass curiouser as Sophie uncovers secrets from virtually everyone's past, witnesses mass destruction from a senseless war and becomes Howl's unlikely savior from the schemes of sorceress Suliman (Blythe Danner).

Prospera is a powerful sorceress who can calm a raging storm at sea with a flick of her wand.

A trip to Kathmandu in a desperate search for some kind of miracle spiritual cure puts him in contact with the Ancient One, a bald sorceress played by Tilda Swinton (a gender and ethnic switch from the comics where the character is male and Asian; Swinton's Ancient One is of Celtic extraction) who by turns torments and trains him in the arcane ways of the mystic arts.

As soon as the sorceresses are hanged by their colonial neighbors, the Disney script machine waves its magic formula over the film and breaks the spell of promise.

The plot takes place 15 years after Hansel and Gretel suffered their childhood ordeal, facing a new foe in the shape of a witches coven run by an evil sorceress (Famke Janssen)-- which ultimately forces them to confront their own pasts.

Too bad Alex wasn't privy to the fifteen minutes of back - story shown at the beginning of this movie where he would have learned how the beautiful sorceress Zi Juan (Michelle Yeoh) placed Han (Jet Li) and his army of 10,000 under a spell.

Beyond the non-canonical tale of the sorceress Cia, and her plot to conquer Hyrule, this is fan service through and through.

There's little point in discussing the plot, other than to say that hot lesbian sorceresses, animal - masked doomsday cult members and predatory hot - tub designers all play supplementary roles in the procession of surreal events that befalls our protagonist, sexually undecided art - school freshman Smith (Thomas Dekker, looking and sounding distractingly like Jared Leto circa 1995).

In Civil War, when Captain America tells the Scarlet Witch «Let's do this like we practiced,» it's funny and thrilling to think that he can coax an out - of - control sorceress whose powers include telekinesis to try to become a commando.

Compelled by darkness, the sorceress opens the Gate of Souls — a doorway to time itself — and monsters from across the ages pour through.

• In A Christmas Tale, a trollish old man taking out the garbage watches his mad son climb down the side of the house... a fairy - tale prince escaping a sorceress's castle....

Jolie plays the horned sorceress, who curses Princess Aurora, daughter of an ambitious king.