Is it summoning the Force?
A pre-credit sequence shows stunned US troops in wartime Scotland uncovering a coven of Nazi devil-botherers in some moonlit church ruins, summoning up the forces of evil.
Now, as she races along the surface of huge peaking waves she has summoned up by the force of her power, Ponyo is expressing not only her bliss, but also ours.
Summoning that force of compassion called by various names throughout the world's religions, I ask for Haiti's ongoing healing and protection.
Perhaps more than anywhere, Cannes thrives in direct relation to the amount of old world glamour it can summon up against the forces of the modern world.
Enraged, the Queen transforms herself into a hag and uses the Mirror and her cauldron to summon various "all the forces of evil" in the form of a collection of Disney villains to come to her aid.
Can The Force Awakens summon that broad a church?
When they are accompanied by an instrument with as gentle a voice and as subtle a palette as the guitar, they don't have to summon the same weight and force they bring to a program with a piano.
We need to summon the political and moral force to advance policies that strengthen, not shrink, the middle class and address the devastating poverty inflicted on so many Americans by unemployment, low-wage employment and cuts to SNAP and other critical social services.
On Tuesday, Mr. Karzai went so far as to summon the commander of allied forces in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Dan K. McNeill, to his office to explain the attack.
The chief constable of the force has been summoned to appear before the Home Affairs Select Committee of MPs following a BBC Wales investigation.
