On her way out the door Mrs. Whitman did a magical job of making nettlesome problems like a faltering economy and stalled talks over a Newark arena seem to disappear.
Written with her brother, H. Alan Day, that book not only did a magical job of conjuring an isolated and now vanishing world of big skies and wide-open plains, but it also underscored how the frontier values of her childhood — self-reliance, competence and dependability — shaped her pragmatic judicial philosophy.
In recounting the story of Hans and Chuck, Mr. O'Neill — who was born in Ireland and raised in the Netherlands, and who has written two other novels and a family history — does a magical job of conjuring up the many New Yorks Hans gets to know.
In this story Ms. Danticat — the author of the powerful novel "The Dew Breaker" — does a magical job of conjuring up the town of Léogâne, a humid river town, where flood waters are threatening people's homes, and the frogs have been mysteriously dying, a town where the light is bright and dazzling, and where the narrator, Lélé's brother, tends his vetiver and almond trees.
How does a magical realist game about a secret highway beneath Kentucky set to an electronic and bluegrass soundtrack, sound?
And just when the last seed parachute has floated away and the life of the dandelion is over, it does a magical thing... Remember those deep 6-foot roots it developed?
Since then, the San Francisco-based startup has focused on making those lives easier by developing tools to allow app and game developers to do a wondrous and magical thing: Share the same code for iOS and Android.
The vow does not cause a magical imprint on some invisible entity; it transforms the dispositions of the vow-taker.
Maybe that's why we'd like to do a whole lot of magical thinking about everything being the result of "I woke up like this" effortlessness.
But Ms. Schulman does supply a magical, lighter-than-air young girl who bewitches Jake in the Daisy Buchanan manner, even if her name is Audrey and her heritage is Chinese.
