talismanic

• “Inspired by the complex numerical relationships identified in talismanic objects or tables the Iranian artist Yahya Fiuzi creates art by interpreting the numbers as colours.”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “To my thinking, the inscriptions must have been of that so-called talismanic kind in which these weak heathen believe.”

  Glyn Severn's Schooldays

• “And I enjoy being a so-called talismanic figure - I love being involved and trying to make things happen for others - but more than one man is going to have to play well if we are going to beat England.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “One member of his retinue said he views the Spaniard as a "talismanic" figure whose departure would alter his valuation of the club.”

  The Guardian: Kenny Huang bid one of many offers for Liverpool, says Martin Broughton

• “Roy Hodgson bemoaned the loss of his "talismanic" defender, who could be absent for up to six weeks.”

  The Guardian: Loss of Jamie Carragher adds to Liverpool's list of absent leaders

• “That evening, only a few hours ago, the officers of his staff regarded him as a kind of talismanic idol; by midnight he had become a millstone around their necks, a mere lump of carved stone ...”

  Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn - RIP

• “Then make a book, but make it what the magicians call a "talismanic" work - somehow beautiful, nicely bound on good paper etc.”

  Snell-Pym » First Publishing Rights

• “A. Charles at 6: 43 seems to believe that invocation of the words "Unitary Executive Theory" works some kind of talismanic magic juju that obviates the need to actually reason out a position.”

  Balkinization

• “This information gap, I fear, will lead most mainstream reporters to simply parrot the administration's portrayal of GNEP as some kind of talismanic cure-all, at least from now until President Bush seals the deal by shaking Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hand at the White House on Friday (April 27).”

  Alex Raksin: The Spin Over the "Joint Nuclear Energy Action Plan"

• “The other thing was that they had decided for curious kind of talismanic reasons, as I was told today by one of the officials who attended the execution, that they wanted this done in the year 2006.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2007

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