Sentence examples for by casting a spell from inspiring English sources

Right in the middle of Richard LeMay's "Naked as We Came," a terminally ill woman, her daughter, her son and her handsome young housemate (with whom the son has just spent the night) share a joint on a glorious green lawn — and the universe's whitest clouds float by, casting a spell, in the bluest sky of all time.

As, often enough, trailers do, by casting a spell of pulse-racing disorientation.

"A conglomeration of hideous things that come together by casting a spell of -- I can't call it beauty, but of a certain kind of silent poetry".

Owl-eyed Harry Potter scholars will spot small divergences from the book even at the outset, when Harry bids farewell to his hateful relatives, the Dursleys (a moment of sympathy from Dudley, Harry's cousin, was cut from the film), and when Hermione, heartbreakingly, protects her parents by casting a spell that erases herself from their memories.

For Mr. Lowry, it was his encounter with Bouguereau's nymphs that made this clear; Ms. Broun noted that Theodore Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa," a painting of shipwreck survivors that measures 16 feet by 23 feet, has cast a spell on visitors to the Louvre since it arrived in 1824.

Finally the catalog of Homer's kinds of ignorance ends by saying his poetry casts a spell (601b).

Perhaps they conjure a holiday presided over by a singing Guy Lombardo who casts a spell of magic and romance over a swarm of sequins and tuxedos.

Next up was Voldemort (sans pyjamas), who kept up the creepiness by asking, "If you could cast a spell to be invisible, what actress' bedroom would you want to sneak into?" "Scarlett Johansson.

The unnamed man, who appeared in court in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province on Tuesday, had said he had not died but was kidnapped by a witch doctor who cast a spell on him and imprisoned him in a cave with zombies, local media reported.

When you're confronted by the person you suspect cast a spell upon you, smile and be friendly.

The evocation of an erratic Los Angeles under wartime blackout, its inhabitants feverish with insomnia and appetites unbridled by the threat of imminent death, casts a spell over the entire erratic novel.