Sentences with phrase «strange powers»

An outsider with strange powers, a human who understands and forces beyond their control....

Now imagine this same movie injected with a dose of apocalyptic science fiction, with the woman gaining strange powers as the story unfolds.

Maybe this was some sort of strange power trip on her part.

Neither the romantic passion of the seaman, which had a «strange power over her» such that she felt she had no will of her own «when he was near,» nor the marriage with Dr. Wangel, which Ellida thought she had made for financial and social reasons, made a space for a truly free choice, the play implies.

It's the story of a religious young woman entering adulthood who manifests strange powers after falling in love with a female classmate.

The film, which doesn't hit theaters until Nov. 4, also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the villanous Baron Mordo and Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One, a mystical guru who gives Strange his powers.

These creators of «situations» (formerly imaginary friends) possess strange powers like «the ability to experience the present as something that was the future until a moment ago when it became ever so slightly past.»

It is about deep inversions and strange power for daring obedience.

Teens with strange powers unite to resist the government that has turned on them.

Bracken's novels pick up in a future world where a vicious illness has either killed off the youth or ignited strange powers inside them.

Feige also confirmed Tilda Swinton will play The Ancient One, the mystical guru who gives Doctor Stephen Strange his powers, and Chiwetel Ejiofor has been cast as the villainous Mordo.

What is the dark secret behind this automaton and what strange powers does it hold?

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Separate the role of manager and mentor (a senior developer not in the direct chain of management) to introduce a confidant who can be trusted and to remove strange power dynamics

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The woman is an enchantress with strange powers, who must preserve the old house: it holds the secret to her immortality.

As she matures, she begins to manifest strange powers, known as Tactical Sorcery.

A young man named Ajax Penumbra arrives on the scene, looking not for free love but rather for a book: a very old volume that might possess strange powers.

As almost any parent can tell you, YouTube exerts a strange power over children — it's an inexhaustible supply of free entertainment that keeps kids reliably absorbed, verging on narcotized.

And, surprisingly, it can also be a tool against a foreign competitor making one of the stranger power plays against a backdrop of strange political events.

The Internet gives each of us a strange power: the ability to stay behind a keyboard, free from the social norms of face - to - face conflict.

The principal surviving exception is the number 13, which still holds a strange power over Fridays, and over the listing of floors in hotels and high rises.

But of course, that is precisely the way in which the Christian tradition has understood that strange power that Paul thought to be the inheritance of the baptized.

But it has a strange power and was written by a man of unusual dramatic gifts.

The bible is a strange power.

In addition to describing each of these levels, Chopra devotes a whole chapter to «strange powers» — which include such things as inspiration and insight, genius, prodigious powers in children, memories of former lifetimes, telepathy and ESP, alter egos (multiple personality syndrome), synchronicity, clairvoyance and prophecy.

The strange power of this peculiar sickness was so strong that all people could do was recommend that they be warned when it was near.

The death of Jesus Christ does not mean that a strange power which has conditioned history thus far has been annihilated.

Money has a strange power, and when blended with our unwholesome attitudes about it, its strange power only increases.

Buzz has it he's already rewritten the script so he gets to be the one with strange powers.

What is the secret of music's strange power?

He played Dish Boggett in the miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989) and in 1996 starred in the unfortunately short - lived Fox series Strange Luck in which he played an amnesiac freelance photographer with strange powers that resulted from his being the sole survivor of an airline disaster.

Fantastic differs by opting for a lighter, more comedic tone and, by delaying a specific plot until its final act, reveling in the wonder of colorful personalities and their acquisition of strange powers.

The only problem is that their strange powers — silverware hurling, bowling, shovel skills, incompetent invisibility and deadly flatulence — aren't doing them any favors.

But the fact that this humble used car caused me to stop in the first place (and text - message the seller) is a testament to the strange power of the car by the side of the road.

Turns out the two have strange powers, and they're followed by terrifying danger.

However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed - but not unchanged - the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them.

In these 14 linked short stories, O. Henry Award winner Dylan Landis chronicles Rainey's journey from teen to woman, focusing on the strange power of teen girls — and its limits.

And in the middle are the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons, determined to use the strange power that binds them to the land in a last, desperate attempt to save the human race.

I do not want to sound crazy or something, but I do believe that I have this strange power in certain situations.

What Carrie discovers on her journey with Tyrell finally opens her eyes to her strange powers.

But when a mysterious shadow lurking in the woods draws out a strange power within her, she fears she's losing her mind.

At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny.