Sentence examples for some talisman from inspiring English sources

Had their breakthrough début, "Hybrid Theory," become some talisman for traditional values and can-do neoliberalism?

She seemed always on the verge of bestowing something – some talisman, some magic token you'd need to get through the dark forest, some verbal formula useful for the opening of charmed doors".

If your family is there, or if you are lying in the room you lived in for years or holding some talisman of it— a favorite pillow, a photograph, a shell you collected as a child, at least you feel close to home.

The verse is not some talisman.

Some talismans are regarded as convenient because they are disposable and of little value; after they have served their purposes in specific situations they are thrown away.

He said he decided to sell after consulting some of Talisman's biggest shareholders and weighing employee morale in the face of "quite hysterical" antagonism.

The porterhouse, presented in a tableside ritual that offers up the giant bloody bone like some biblical talisman, is especially impressive: black and smoky on the outside, red and juicy within, with a big helping of terrific roasted vegetables -- carrots, fennel, celery, beets and a whole head of garlic -- that makes side dishes superfluous.

SPECIAL POST — Most people who come to the A.C.P.T. show up with a good supply of pencils, some lucky talismans and perhaps a sweater to stay warm in the chilly ballroom.

Bill Smith, the Twins' general manager, had not seen the show, either, and said he did not acquire Hardy as some sort of talisman.

Whatever the opinions of local residents about their new Hollywood talisman, some sociologists explain the glorification of nonpolitical Hollywood icons as the outgrowth of an identity crisis after the wars of the 1990s, when the lines between oppressors and victims were blurred.

While the freedom Bitcoin promises is an illusion, it's one that will always have a grip on the human mind - the dream of finding some kind of talisman, a benevolent tyrant or a magical new technology, that can shelter us from power and crime and protect us from each other.