Zhang Xin, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker, and her husband, Pan Shiyi, a real estate developer who also has a popular blog, have used a blend of marketing wizardry, savvy land deals and international architects to help create a huge fortune in just over a decade.
Selling school administrators and kids on Wizardry 101 had, O'Keefe acknowledged, been made easier by the popularity of Harry Potter, but he reminded the teachers that wizardry has an ancient history.
When he directs "The Avengers," he has a point of view, and he dares to confront the material and make it reflect that; he creates images that have some wizardry and some wonder, some daring and some power to astonish.
But McNamara's numerical wizardry had a dark side.
This 3D photograph, made up of 30 images of Jones hit by lasers, has the wizardry of a hologram and the humanity of a classic portrait – Madame Tussauds meets Irving Penn.
"Steve's experimental wizardry has had a profound impact on astronomy and astrophysics". Along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the now de-orbited Compton Gamma-ray Observatory, Chandra is one of NASA's "Great Observatories" and considered to be the agency's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy.
This graphics wizardry is like having a monitor that can triple its size on demand when you need more room to find something.
Diana Wynne Jones's 1986 fantasy novel Howl's Moving Castle has the wizardry and spells that JK Rowling has made fashionable again; perhaps Miyazaki's happy conversion of her book into Japanimation will bring it to a new audience through an unexpected route.
They have not even had a "Sputnik moment", when some piece of Chinese technological wizardry has shown up the United States as second-best and China as top nation.
Comedy, it might be said, is a magical thing, and the BBC has proved its wizardry in the field over many decades, from The Goons and Tony Hancock to Monty Python and The Office and W1A.
