Sentence examples for wizard from inspiring English sources

Just as I underestimated the sheer hard work involved in writing funny election columns, Cameron clearly thought being prime minister would be a lark, a breeze, and a wizard wheeze, something to chalk up on his business-class bucket list, along with getting a selfie with Helle Thorning-Schmidt and sucking the bass player from Blur's luxury cheese direct from the goat's teat.

DIY by nature, working from Norfolk, Abbott is a wizard with noise.

It isn't just geekiness and computer wizardry (though now I say wizard, my thoughts chase inexorably to Daniel Radcliffe, possibly the truest embodiment of this entire trend. What would the 1950s have made of him, as a poster boy? Picture him opposite James Dean. They're like different species).

It also neatly tied together all of the conventions of quest-based multiplayer role-playing games: players took on a specific class of character – fighter, wizard, thief, etc – then "leveled up" by killing enemies with a range of weapons and spells, before collecting experience points and loot.

I see this image of the basement-dwelling wizard who rejects societal conventions to such an extreme degree as one of the tragic heroes of our times".

Legend has it that Michael Scot, the 13th-century wizard, came across a coven of witches holding their sabbat outside Little Salkeld, and turned them all to stone.

What actions did our esteemed grand high wizard jelly take on hearing about this?

It comes from a Japanese saying that if you reach the age of 30 and you are still a virgin, you become a wizard.

Japan was Voldemort, said China's ambassador, referring to the evil wizard of the series.

Your top management ranks are thin and you need a turnaround wizard because you can no longer function credibly as chairman, chief executive, president and chief operating officer all at once.

He adored wind energy and looked like a wizard with his beard and long, white hair.