Sentences with phrase «uses incantations»

I had a great time using these incantations.

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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.
In this form of fantasy the powers are always mysterious, but by certain rites, incantations or motions they can be drawn upon by humans and used to human ends.
Though Chick saw himself as an evangelist, he was perhaps better established as a conspiracy theorist — one who used his talents to convince readers that children could become demonically possessed through the Harry Potter books, or that trick - or - treating was a Satanic incantation.
Under a watchful eye, and mumbling incantations, I use a little water, butter (OK HeartSmart), and sometimes a sauce or two to bring Uncle Ben back to life in a skillet with constant stirring and CPR.
However, Strange's chosen magical weapon of a whip or lasso is similar to a spell he's often used in recent comic books, namely the «Crimson Bands of Cyttorak,» an incantation which Brian Bendis used extensively in writing Strange in New Avengers.
You can bet your bottom privatization dollar that as soon as these edu - tourists hear any reasonable, evidence - based rationale refuting their radical positions on teacher evaluation, tenure or the use of Value - Added Measures, they will inevitably blurt out the one magic incantation they believe will repel all attacks, confident in its power to tug at the heartstrings of any parent / voter: «But, it's all about the kids!»
In fact, one of the earliest incantations of such a project was the World Nomads Ambassador program (in 2008), in which my partner (at the time) and I had use of a camper van and some complementary toys for a 6 - week Australian adventure.
Things become far more entertaining if use your own incantations, but even then it becomes old rather fast.
I never used any items, nor did I cast any spells except for Warp to save myself some travel time (in the Japanese version, that is; Working Designs chose to leave that particular incantation out of the US game).
I think that this is a moment where the sacred vocabulary of professional media («journalism», «news», etc), which we use as incantations to differentiate ourselves from the unwashed horde, now obscure the path forward more than illuminate it.
As an introduction for his show «Hippias Minor» at Deste Project Space this summer in Hydra, Paul Chan uses a beautiful incantation: «A breath that unites contraries is what one is always looking for.»
Others have used phrases such as «vacuous incantations».
«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).
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