Sentence examples for magical role from inspiring English sources

But his magical role in the narrative never quite jells.

It plays the same magical role as the ghanta, but it also serves as a mode of ascending to the realm of the sacred for the shaman.

He discovers that his late (and "real") father was not a perfect magical role model, but someone who went in for fits of nasty playground bullying.

Furthermore, finds of bones and drawings show that the preservation of skulls with still attached vertebrae, ribs, and front legs of oxen and reindeer played a certain religious or magical role.

Although, strictly speaking, Theravada Buddhism has no place for a "divine ruler" whose identity an actual king may adopt, provision was made in legend and in court and monastic ritual for the ruler of a Theravada Buddhist country to assume a magical role as the dominant sponsor and patron of the Buddhist truth.

The Legend of Tarzan reunites Jackson with screenwriter Craig Brewer, who conjured up a magical role for Jackson in the steamy 2007 racial melodrama Black Snake Moan, and who is intent here, as in his movies as a writer-director (Moan, Hustle and Flow), on creating provocative black characters.

Most have been helped into their pseudo-magical role with a heavy, uniform coating of paint.

The Alfa Romeo of the title — a Giulia 1300 — plays a quasi-magical role in the story.

Even though Daniel Radcliffe is all grown up and starring in a whole lot of mature, non-magical roles these days, we will always know and love him for playing the world's most famous wizard: Harry Potter.

Jean Simmons, who has died aged 80, had a bounteous moment, early in her career, when she seemed the likely casting for every exotic or magical female role.

The evening's stars, Paloma Herrera and Marcelo Gomes, were magical in the roles of Odette-Odile and the prince who falls in love with the good swan queen and her evil twin.