Sentence examples for certain spell from inspiring English sources

Azadeh's vividly evoked destinations may cast a certain spell, but they offer no idylls.

He lost his university position and never taught again, but his message had already cast a certain spell.

This was the anti-Semitism of passing remarks — a well-meaning professor noting that my wand grip was "in the Semitic style," or that my choice of a certain spell was "crafty".

Heaven knows, there has been plenty of it, but increasingly it has been impossible to ignore the danger that a certain spell might be broken, one that was, miraculously enough, significantly unscathed when the 30th Olympics drew to a close earlier this month.

When this feeling blooms in a reader's cranium, a certain spell is broken, the way it is when a comedian glances at his notes onstage, or when a singer (as Lucinda Williams has taken to doing in recent years) reads her own lyrics from a music stand during a concert.

Whenever you go to cast a certain spell, the application presents you with a motion you need to make with the phone (standing in for your wand), and the incantation you have to speak aloud.

In certain spells we looked excellent but what also impressed me when we weren't was we looked solid at the back.

And certain spells even impact your ability to see the battlefield.

"But [with] the manager in charge now, even though we are not getting results, we are playing well in certain spells.

Derby manager Steve McClaren: "In certain spells we looked excellent but what also impressed me was we looked solid at the back.

When you are not playing well and the other team are dominating for certain spells, you have to grind out results like that.