Sentence examples similar to Conjuring something from thin air from inspiring English sources

Maybe, too, they will still stand for the old American dream of snatching something from thin air: a future without sacrifice, and liberty as boundless as the sky.

The list showed prices for "creating" — that is, conjuring from thin air — various documents that the trust owning the loan should already have on hand.

As for Mary Poppins, the gratifying standout of Disney's final years, she demonstrated his preternatural, Prospero-like knack for conjuring a spirit from thin air (Julie Andrews was nothing like the Mary of the novels) and persuading us that she had always been around.

For another, the additional investment is not conjured up from thin air.

Ms Gillard launched her plan in the run-up to a federal election last August, apparently having conjured it from thin air.

Who would bet against a central bank that can conjure money from thin air?In another difference from the SMP approach, the new bond-buying will happen only for states which will almost certainly end up including Spain and quite probably Italy that have secured assistance from the ESM.

Particularly with characters where there is no portrait, where my books had to conjure them from thin air: how would they appear?

But Tolkien did not conjure the scene from thin air.

McCain did not conjure this idea from thin air.

Money for the infrastructure bonanza beloved of politicians is not conjured from thin air; it is diverted from elsewhere.

Ms. Yorio, who has known Mr. Schrager for nearly a decade, has seen him conjure spectacular events from thin air.