Sentence examples for in amulet from inspiring English sources

The date comes into focus in Amulet, in which a threatening late-night street resembles "a cemetery in the year 2666".

In the end, the fleshed-out portrait of Lacouture in "Amulet" — New Directions recently published a translation — is less potent than the hypnotic ten-page cadenza in "Detectives," which is enriched by its connection to other tales of political confusion.

In the end, the fleshed-out portrait of Lacouture in "Amulet"—New Directions recently published a translation is less potent than the hypnotic ten-page cadenza in "Detectives," which is enriched by its connection to other tales of political confusion.

As in Amulet (1999), which expands a few pages from The Savage Detectives, Bolaño is partly concerned with memorialising the Mexican poetry scene of his youth - first with exuberance, later with sadness and irony.

And since poetry is indistinguishable from politics for them (whether they like it or not), the visceral realists start standing in for Bolaño's generation of Latin American idealists, pictured in Amulet as "ghost-children", singing as they march towards an abyss in a way that recalls "the superb, theatrical attitudes of love".

For this reason, the symbol was often used in amulets.

Magicians often use the basmalah in amulets, claiming that the prayer was inscribed in Adam's side, Gabriel's wing, Solomon's seal, and Jesus Christ's tongue.

Instead, an investigation found, she had confronted men who were themselves dishonoring the shrine by trafficking in amulets and, more clandestinely, Viagra and condoms.

"Isn't it strange," says Stephen, "that we laugh at the Sherpas for putting their faith in amulets, when we're really exactly the same, except that with us it's a white rabbit's foot or a crucifix".

Covered in amulets and talismans, which they believe will make them invincible, they all want to have a go at him.

Or more commonly, they take pieces of the corpse to wear in amulets for good luck and protection.