Bookstore shelves are full of spells and sorcery, and so, these days, are multiplexes, as filmmakers take advantage of special-effects technology to bring literary enchantments to life.
Qian Yi and Wen Yu Hang, who brought an enchantment all their own to that production as the young romantic leads, here appear in different guise and character.
How can one trust the memories of a medieval man who claims "the Kashmiri are all idolaters, they change the weather by enchantment, and bring down thick darkness"?
You can get enchantments without losing XP from a Village Priest.
This book tries to piece back together that illusion, to bring back the colored lights and the warm enchantment.
"It's more than just chocolate when your senses bring you to a place of reward and enchantment".
"It's more than just chocolate when your senses bring you to a place of reward and enchantment". Such was Executive Chef Chocolatier Thierry Muret's answer when asked to finish Godiva's holiday slogan, "It's more than just chocolate". His response seems apt, as Muret has spent the last 23 years concocting reward and enchantment in his kitchen.
Voldemort tries to convince Harry to give him the stone (which Harry suddenly finds in his pocket as the result of an enchantment by the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore), by promising to bring his parents back from the dead, but Harry refuses.
"Some people feel that amulets attract or bring forward the power they represent," said Joe Zuchowski, who manages Enchantments, a Manhattan boutique for aspiring Wiccans, or modern-day witches.
The Christmas scenes bring to mind Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander," in which wondrous enchantment collides with demonic religiosity.
From the opening poem, "Subtitle," we feel ourselves to be in the presence of a Masonic plan: a politely coded scheme to shift around the furniture of our daily lives, and to see what the rearrangement brings by way of enchantment and threat.
