Sentence examples for orison from inspiring English sources

As in The Bone Clocks, Mitchell gleefully goes to town with the mechanics and logistics of a paranormal plot: "The Operandi works provided we recharge the Lacuna every nine years by luring a gullible Engifted into a suitable orison…" As one of the narrators remarks (in 2006), "This is all sounding a bit Da Vinci Code for me".

The scene in the control room, for example, features an "orison," a kind of super-smart egg-shaped phone capable of producing 3-D projections, which Mitchell had dreamed up for the futuristic chapters.

The Wachowskis' solution: the orison is as flat as a wallet and acquires a third dimension only when spun.

You're always off balance with it, sometimes as if you were being subjected at once to a high-church orison and a dirty joke.

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That orison alone ought to be enough to give Mr. Lhota the shivers.

Sonmi herself has become the goddess of the Valley Tribes of Zachry, although the Prescients - who have preserved a hologram of her "orison", or recorded testimony - say she was a "freakbirthed human who died hun'erds o years ago".

Once we're finished, the orison will be archived at the Ministry of Testaments.