Sentence examples for to incantation from inspiring English sources
noun
The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
He reiterated "I have a dream," elevating his speech to incantation.
The music of the sonnets is rooted in Shakespeare's underrated mastery of repetition and its effects in turning sense to incantation, the second appearance of a word pointing toward something slightly different from the first, and making both words seem magical, as in the beautiful beginning of Sonnet 8: "Music to hear, why hears't thou music sadly?
Grave Plague seem to be a new prospect with a delightfully caveman-esque outlook; their approach to death metal comes straight outta the early 90s, brewed from a rotten mash of Swedish and Floridian influences (as well as the obvious hat-tip to Incantation).
Talk of God turns to incantations on holy war and the youths, who have been promised martyrdom and paradise, slip on backpacks of crude explosives and march toward the glare of the corrupt city.
Yet the faded ink strokes of Aramaic or ancient Hebrew refer to epic incantations: to trumpets blowing in battle, to praise of the righteous and condemnation of the wicked, to "the heavens, the earth and all its thinking creatures".
There is some question as to its authenticity, but it seems plausible that On Rays represents al-Kindi's attempt to explain all physical interaction – from heating and cooling, to vision, to astral influence, to magical incantations – in terms of a fundamentally geometrical mechanism.
For Heidegger, the project of rescuing language from the ostensible truth of logic and restoring it to iridescent incantation implied kicking out the intellectual struts from under the claims to progress on the part of technological society.
On "Soaring Piasa" the band eases from open abstraction to simmering incantation so gracefully that the dividing line effectively disappears.
The Mayor praised the efforts of the President and the armed forces, and recited something akin to an incantation on where the city spiritually stands.
But McLane soon gives way to repetition, incantation, and fragmentation, creating an aura of gloominess, while the ghosts of Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Robert Bly hover over her to issue conflicting instructions about the deep image.
Mahalia Jackson employed "Amazing Grace" for Civil Rights marchers, writing that she used it "to give magical protection a charm to ward off danger, an incantation to the angels of heaven to descend .
