incantatory

• “What some readers will call incantatory began to feel, at times, somewhat repetitive, making me appreciate those moments when a more colloquial voice, usually another speaker, was introduced in a poem, as in "An Idea of Return.”

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• “Even for us, 'playing' with "Onyx" -- watching scenes unfold, linking strands of narrative differently each time -- has a kind of incantatory quality.”

  Gail Freedman and Larry Atlas: Browseable Video Story-Worlds: The Future of Film?

• “And they have a kind of incantatory, repetitive but -- but incantatory eloquence that is much more apparent, and even the meanings, I think, more apparent if you read it aloud.”

  Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World

• “Through a kind of incantatory or sacrificial rite, they try to call up and reinstate the tropes, schemas or words which to them distinguish professorial language.”

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• “Consider my exercise some kind of incantatory ritual -- a talisman -- meant to hold off the bad spirits just as, when I arrive in Beijing in winter and find the mercury near zero (an increasing rarity these last years) or stumble into a snowstorm in New York City, I’m relieved.”

  Orville Schell: The Melting of America: The Story of a Can't-Do Nation

• “The poem's incantatory ending, "Tomorrow is calling/Tomorrow is calling/Do not be afraid," is both a call for strength and for action.”

  The Huffington Post: John Lundberg: A Poem That Rages Against the Machine

• “I need to write a story where the incantatory magic system is based on the Latin names of fungi.”

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• “We know the characters as archetypes; we know their broad traits and their incantatory phrases.”

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• “Her incantatory, floaty voice and exciting stage presence energized a set that harmonized Gael Rakotondrabe's glorious piano/keyboards and Tez's jaw-dropping beatbox gifts, with sister Bianca's ruthless word wizardry.”

  The Huffington Post: S.X. Rosenstock: CocoRosie Turns It On: Passion Is the Pull of Your Past

• “Another note, this one handed to him by Lama Katie after the morning cleanup in the temple and the incantatory scraping of the baked-on oatmeal from the depths of the communal cook pot.”

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