There are three types of spells you can use when dueling: Jinxes (for humor), Curses (pure black magic), and Hexes (for self-defense).
Having finally experienced a moment of pure happiness, Angel's curse is lifted and he goes back to being evil and killing people, before Buffy runs him through with a giant sword.
That's not to say Oliver was pure-Stewart – he cursed substantially more and at moments you could tell he was giddy about hosting the show – which he has said it was his dream just to work for.
The Dain Curse is a pure mystery novel written on contract.
"The Garcimarquesian voice," Pynchon wrote, has "been brought to a level where it can at once be classical and familiar, opalescent and pure, able to praise and curse, laugh and cry, fabulate and sing and when called upon, take off and soar".
Influences include Picasso's The Accordionist and Michelangelo's constant drawing and redrawing of fabric folds, and his very life presence implies a blitz of curses on the "pure" Le Corbusier and his refusal of the fact that dirty humanity had to inhabit his spaces, and on his generations of dull-eyed wet-lipped bean-counting acolytes.
Despite the chiggers and the curses, the scene is pure Rembrandt.
(Penguin, $9.95). Marcus Vallar, a mathematician, healer and philosopher of "pure thought," is suspected of putting a curse on an Irish poet.
Knowing that Angel has been cursed so that if he ever experiences pure happiness, he will once again lose his soul, Darla later returns and sleeps with him, but her plot fails; being with her only brings Angel despair.
I start cutting, and I'm gifted, or, I guess cursed, with a natural clumsiness and it's just pure mess from there on out.
