So, too, in "Pang," Ms. Kalloo, Ms. Tooman, Paul Hamilton and Richard Rivera might have been summoning powers to guide them in a struggle to survive.
All it took was the name Jefferson Mays, the Tony-winning virtuoso, who is single-handedly populating the story through the summoning powers of his acting.
And she had no trouble summoning power when she needed it, particularly in Mimi's extended duet with Rodolfo in the third act.
Somehow the stentorian bass Eric Owens got through it, summoning power when called for and inhabiting the part with abandon, even while wearing a body-encasing monster outfit, the work of the costume designer Constance Hoffman.
According to John Makinson, the chairman of the National, the search for Hytner's successor focused on finding "a creative director of unimpeachable quality" who also had "the summoning power to attract to this building the greatest talents in British and international theatre".
Summoning power she hasn't shown in almost two years, since she announced she was dealing with an immune system condition, the 33-year-old two-time U.S. Open winner upset 12th-seeded Belgian Kirsten Flipkens, 6-1, 6-2, in a first-round match Monday.
11 will try the courts' intellectual resources perhaps as never before," the judge explained, "challenging us to parse the real from the bogus or merely perceived, and in so doing to summon powers of discernment and calibrated judgments as delicate as any we have had to elicit at any time in our history".
As the savior of Nym, a slave girl with storm-summoning powers, Adora seems to be nothing short of charming.
But when he tried to sing Grimes's lyrical utterances, his voice turned thin; and when he summoned power for the heroic outbursts, his voice nearly gave out on the top notes.
Nathan Byrne was allowed far too much space to run down the right wing and send over a deep cross, and though Will Grigg still needed to summon power and accuracy to beat Joe Hart with a header at the far post, he managed it with aplomb.
The IRS uses its summons power frequently today, and court fights are becoming more common.
