But the truth is, when you're doing it, it does feel a little like wizardry.
As a child in Arizona he played Dungeons & Dragons and computer games like Wizardry.
Neurath had enjoyed role-playing video games like Wizardry, but found that their simple, abstract visuals were an obstacle to the suspension of disbelief.
So for 2014, the automaker turned the S550 sedan into a rolling buffet of comfort and safety features that may seem like wizardry now but will be commonplace on lesser vehicles in the future.
The trouble with constants Renewing a classic The devil in the detail Note: "Luis Barragán" Reprints Related items Paris theatre: Renewing a classicJan 30th 2003Still, it was wonderful to hear two stars deliver their final duet with such temperament, and to marvel at the sublime choral singing and orchestral playing under the Toscanini-like wizardry of Mr Gergiev.
On many accounts, America was led into a decade-long war in Iraq, not by the President who must bear its legacy, but by his Number 2, "the man behind the curtain," whose quiet but forceful Oz-like wizardry left an indelible mark on this country and, indeed, the world.
Some take their inspiration from the Harry Potter books, like the wizardry camp run by the Brandywine Learning Center in Chester Springs, Pa., which simulates the experience of attending Hogwarts, the school from the novels.
As someone who grew up on cornerstone franchises of Western role-playing like Ultima, Wizardry, Bard's Tale and Might & Magic, I've always found most Japanese role-playing games a bit confining.
Opening with a sharp swipe at Harold Wilson's supertax rate for big earners, it ends half an hour later in a revolutionary mystical soundscape sculpted from LSD and dope, and drenched in technical wizardry the like of which had never been heard before.
Microsoft lost its way, Mr. Berkowitz says, because it became too enamored with software wizardry, like its new three-dimensional map service, and failed to make a search engine people liked to use.
A few pieces are interesting for technological wizardry, like Sergio Prego's gravity-defying view of himself circling in midair, done by splicing multiple images together.
