Sentence examples for obscure magic from inspiring English sources

Authority is part of the obscure magic of her achievement as a novelist.

But our sense of artists as separate from the everyday world, engaged in some kind of obscure magic, has made it easier for us to ignore them and believe that their work is irrelevant to our own, comparatively ordinary lives.

Its filthy foundation as a headquarters for whores and for humans sold to the highest bidder was obscured by the magic of musical melding.

Did he have a magic formula, some obscure measure of value that would unlock the secrets of the market to the rest of us mere mortals?

And indeed we may add an appendix to that old saw: any sufficiently advanced, or sufficiently obscure, technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Whether "saturation" has thus become the magic word which obscures faulty designs in focus group reports, as Charmaz insinuates, has yet to be investigated.

Borges' imaginings, densely packed with paradoxes and magic, symbolism and myth, the "obscure madness" he wrote of in baroque style, are not condensed and predigested for fast-food consumption.

If the magic-Leicester stuff tends to obscure the merits of continuity and careful planning rather than indiscriminate celebrity additions, it also goes to the heart of what might happen next.

It was good for the time, but our Gruntfile eventually grew to become an obscure witches' brew of plugins, wrappers and configuration magic.

See, the app's signature magic trick is sending users down obscure side streets in order to avoid congested major thoroughfares.

Now Carullo is looking into developing Body Magic, a reflecting lotion to conceal cellulite, obscure veins and make arms look more defined.