Sentences with word «talismanic»

Arsenal have reportedly put a contract worth # 300,000 - a-week on the table in order to persuade talismanic forward Alexis Sanchez to commit his future.

England have had to cope without talismanic striker Harry Kane through injury for all of their last four friendlies.

At the same time, Allen seems to want to embrace the work of certain talismanic figures without resorting to satire or parody.

Les Diables Rouges are among the favourites for this summer's European Championships in France, but their preparation has been affected by the loss of talismanic captain Vincent Kompany.

Chelsea are hoping to tempt Leicester City into parting with talismanic midfielder Riyad Mahrez by offering them a player plus cash deal that would involve Christian Atsu and # 15million, according to Spanish publication Marca.

Palace then lost talismanic captain Sakho to that calf injury, which will doubtless hand boss Hodgson another unwanted headache.

West Ham did have their chances against Newcastle and one could probably argue that if they had the suspended Manuel Lanzini and injured talismanic skipper Mark Noble in midfield, they would've ended up on the right side of the 3 - 2 scoreline or perhaps, won even more comfortably.

One talismanic presence is film maker Kenneth Anger who has a lifelong devotion to the adventurer - occulist Aleister Crowley, stretching back to the 1950s when he helped restore Crowley's former temple in Sicily.

The last few matches have seen the Gunners play with renewed belief, even without talismanic midfielder Jack Wilshere and top goal scorer Theo Walcott.

Stoke City would be without two key players after Charlie Adams and Ibrahim Afellay got sent off in their last game against West Brom and would represent a huge loss for them, given Afellay's very decent start to life in Stoke and Charlie Adams talismanic qualities.

The word «virtue» itself began to take on an almost talismanic power, especially in the wake of William Bennett's Book of Virtues, published in 1992.

There is some good news for the hosts though as talismanic striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is expected to make his long awaited return from a heel injury for the reigning champions.

Presented in P.S. 1's Duplex Gallery, À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds) is a massive suspended assemblage that entombs talismanic objects with ornate theatricality.

The Eagles also lost talismanic defender Mamadou Sakho to what appeared a worrying calf injury in another blow to the relegation battlers.

Talismanic leader Anna Carboni particularly excels in this regard, as do all members of the team.

Talismanic goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon bid a tearful farewell to Juventus after 17 seasons at the club.

The hosts, meanwhile, have doubts over the participation of talismanic duo Frank Lampard and captain John Terry, whom has twice as many league goals this season than Torres (2).

So I begin staging the various layers that account for these new works, paintings made using a marbling technique, the series Unstable Talismanic Renderings.

Kerstin Brätsch's «Unstable Talismanic Renderings» (2014) radiated visibly.

In her new work, New York - based Sarah Lovitt transforms inanimate objects into talismanic mementos by directly casting them in wax, underscoring the contrast between their permanence and mutability.

Morata was also used as a substitute for both the crunch Champions League encounters against Barcelona in the Round of 16 as his Italian manager preferred to use talismanic winger Eden Hazard as a false number nine despite Morata's availability.

Having scored 25 goals in 37 league outings last season, he would solve the issues currently being faced by United and Chelsea respectively, with the two clubs potentially both needing to replace talismanic figures, while they need to bolster their options in general.

Liverpool's talismanic winger has scored in each of his last five Premier League games.

Having a budget done «on time» has been of talismanic significance for him during his tenure as governor, citing it as tangible evidence the state government is functioning after years of budget talks that could stretch into the summer.

Each of Tayou's Poupées has personality, drama, an almost talismanic force, and real flair.

Whether you're a new or old resident, like Florida's talismanic symbol — the alligator — you likely want to snap up Tallahassee insurance to fuel your long time security.

The brilliantly delineated head, a motif that continued to underpin Basquiat's work for the rest of his brief career, stands as both idiosyncratic self - portrait and skull - like talismanic call - sign.

Richard Hawkins and Catherine Opie devote a room to talismanic paintings by Tony Green, who died of AIDS in 1990.

Paris Saint - Germain talismanic striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has confirmed that he intends to depart the club at the end of the current campaign when his current contract expires at Parc des Princes.

Their ability to win, without talismanic wide - man Alexis Sanchez would give Arsene Wenger great confidence moving into the next season.

The travelling Tottenham fans were left chanting for their own talismanic striker with barely quarter of an hour played but Kane did not come on until the 76th minute, by which time Dortmund's victory was complete.

The other striker to feature is Raúl González, himself a long - time talismanic figure at the Santiago Bernabéu whose final season in the Spanish capital (2009/10) crossed over with Ronaldo's first.

It remains to be seen whether the 34 - year - old talismanic striker with zero league experience can lead Manchester United to a genuine title contender.

Jose then went on to put a contract in front of one of the most talismanic footballers in the world, a rather confident man named Zlatan, and now Mourinho has firmly placed the cherry atop the pie in securing Pogba to add some genuine class in an area of the pitch where Manchester United have been lacking for years.

«There a number of TALISMANIC STATISTICAL PRISMS through which to view Paladino's impressive win.»

Add to this the problems the GOP's talismanic Voter Vault was rumoured to be having and it is no surprise that in states like Indiana and Iowa the Republican campaign is floundering.

Worn on bare skin, or adorned on your go - to piece of clothing, we're lovers of talismanic necklaces and rings.

Needless to say, upon arriving at Rose's sprawling family estate (following a shocking, talismanic road kill encounter that will have profound echoes later on), all is gradually revealed to not be well.

Claire de Lune is an artist working in ceramics, painting and video to create an immersive world of characters and symbols, little talismanic islands of love and hope for the viewer.

They're very talismanic.

The reworked Sufi verses evoke arcane, talismanic characters and numbers that, in accordance with Sufi philosophy, negotiate aesthetic qualities with notions of revelation, divination and the physical manifestation of intangible ideas such as the quest for grace.

The artist works with coding and geometric forms, including pre-Islamic talismanic designs and systems, to delineate her own process.

Harrison's dexterity with such materials allows each object, despite its humble origins, to possess an alarming, talismanic potency, and an iconic simplicity.

Kandinsky's talismanic Several Circles will appear in the exhibition in many different forms, serving as connective tissue among the objects and images on display.

Arabic mingles with indigenous North African languages (much of the work is made by North African dyers, weavers and potters), and invented characters — some resembling Chinese, others talismanic signs — are liberally stirred in.

I suspect that the model in his studio may have played a kind of talismanic role to ensure that his intuitions about the painterly transfer of the figure's presence to the canvas were kept in line by the presence of the «real thing.»

Sheehy frequently returns to vernacular subjects that may appear folksy — donkeys, sailing ships, closely terraced houses, and chimney sweeps — but when repeated across numerous works they become talismanic.

For Martin, the two are not necessarily distinct: abstract painters are his shamans, their works talismanic.