Sentence examples for calls magical from inspiring English sources
The second section, dealing with what Klein calls "magical thinking", is in many ways the core of the book.
Meditating on the human propensity for employing what Mr. Auster calls "magical thinking" to interpret natural disasters, "Act of God" is philosophically ripe but cinematically undercooked.
When Ms. Kransberger meets applicants engaged in what she calls "magical thinking" about their finances, she advises them to defer for a year or two until they are on stronger footing.
In Magic in the Moonlight, Stanley wonders, dumbstruck, about the seductive or dangerous possibilities of something he anachronistically calls "magical thinking", but Allen has long ago proved himself a master of this kind of thinking with his inspired fantasies: the prerogative of both fiction and comedy.
Tower Hamlets council is determined to demolish it, but the Twentieth Century Society has been fighting a vigorous campaign to save a development which Richard Rogers, in a book recently published by the society, calls "magical" and likens to a Nash terrace.
I met Sharp in late March, in the East Village, a few days after the explosion, and as we ate burgers and drank root beer while attempting to patronize one of the affected businesses, he told me about his love of on-the-nose metaphors — "an impossible thing that everyone knows is a metaphor for this possible thing" — and his chosen genre, what he calls "magical social realism".
"It's called magical realism, Middle East-style," says Thomas Carothers of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Who could resist one called magical, with alternating segments of eel, cucumber, avocado and tuna.
His visionary moppets are vehicles for promoting the kind of mysticism psychotherapists call "magical thinking".
As one of the best-known examples of the predominantly Latin American genre called magical realism, it presents some challenges.
It was more like what anthropologists and psychologists call magical thinking — the tendency to believe that wishing it so makes it so.
