On Saturday, there was less magic and more meteorology involved.
The "magic of the market" may be less than magical.
It's about the way innovation really happens, which is less by magic and genius than by a lot of small steps and bits of luck.
Last year's triumph for Wigan aside, the FA Cup is less romance and less magic; more cold, hard cash.
"I said, 'If it's Haiti and they have voodoo, they will be working with magic,'" she says, "'and I want to be in a place with living magic.'" Saar was less interested in actual magic than in the visual ways in which magic could be conveyed.
I'm less interested in magic tricks and more in showing how the trick is done.
Although I wrote the book for teen readers, and perhaps even a bit younger, grown-ups also seem to be drawn to its colorful nostalgia, perhaps as remindful of times in their own childhood when things were less complicated and magic was real.
There are other reasons why gymnastics is one of the most beloved sports at any Games, though, and they're less about the magic of the sport than they are about how gymnastics stretches cultural norms around women's bodies and women's sports only as far as we're comfortable.
While my previous doctor seemed to have near-magical powers of recall about my history of illnesses and injuries (but, in truth, he was an early adopter EMR technology, so maybe there was slightly less magic going on than I let myself believe...), my new team would need to have this information at their fingertips.
Magic is less uncomfortable than electricity.
