conjuring

1 Picasso rolled up the canvas and stashed it away, stung by peers’ scorn and wrung out by the eight months he’d spent conjuring it in his seedy Montmartre studio.

2 That might just mean conjuring him up in your thoughts and wishing for his happiness.

3 The new film never conjures the same feelings of rustic menace.

4 Graves speaks in short bursts and clipped sentences as though he’s slightly out of breath, but he is at his most fluid when conjuring up the landscape of his youth.

5 Like the great Philip Larkin, Ms. Tempest has an ability to write about big, metaphysical subjects in the most vernacular language, while conjuring a sense of contemporary English life with a handful of chiseled lines.

6 Mars's music crosses over between pop, R&B, soul and hip hop, and he is known for conjuring up different musical eras within his albums.

7 Brennan-Jobs details scenes as richly as a prose poem, conjuring the way rare moments of connection with her father transformed the landscape.

8 It is half cocktail, half remedy, a conjuring of Veracruz, Mexico, in Jackson Heights, Queens.

9 We like to be dazzled by the whirring, kinetic machinery, thrilled by the conjuring of what should be impossible and swept away on currents of pure and powerful feeling.

10 She stared at him for a moment, then swayed alarmingly; Madam Pomfrey, who seemed to have pulled herself together, ran forward, conjuring a chair from thin air, which she pushed under McGonagall.

11 Edwin looked deep into the flames, his faraway gaze conjuring up memories.

12 The thought occurred to me as the 50th anniversary of Woodstock approached — it took place just four months before Altamont — and, with it, an inevitable torrent of images conjuring up a bygone era of peace-and-love.

13 From the elegant precision of his recordings in the fifties to his mid-sixties feats of conjuring, he saw himself as a vessel for higher possibilities.

14 The music provides an appropriate soundtrack, conjuring choppy, slow-moving waves amid thick static hum.

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16 Michael has no access to the deeper logic directing his steps, and the book is shrewder than most at conjuring his seemingly unauthored confusion.

17 Ms. Mathis, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, writes with uncommon narrative authority in “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,” conjuring the lives of the Shepherd family with extraordinary psychological precision.

18 Are rappers, poets, and pianists simply better at conjuring novel ideas—or are they hardwired for revision, too?

19 Unlike Hitchcock, Ford is a prime physical specimen, and one can safely assume his interest in her downfall isn’t so much sexual as conjuring classic Hollywood by expressing emotion via screen style.

20 Other supporting cast members include a unicorn hunter named Darka; a smart sheep named David; and the Gricken, a chicken-esque grimoire that lays golden eggs of spells after one of Clementine’s conjurings gone wrong.

1 魔术

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2 变戏法

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3 戏法

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4 变戏法的

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5 魔术的

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6 变魔术

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