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What starts broodingly, with James Samson's Choirmaster in an almost incantational mood, turns playful for the embracing lovers, Robert Kleinendorst and Amy Young, and darkens when an intense Sean Mahoney enters.
Laughing in the Light and Dark Robert Greskovic 2011
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Great Regulars: A ferocious playfulness and self-mockery characterizes the poem, supersaturating its incantational language: the meaning of "die" as orgasm, here bizarrely linked to a prelude of prayer; the tradition of preaching at the execution place; compact apothegms like "Wonder hinders love and hate" or "Hope went on the wheel of lust."
Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Though myth possesses an incantational force which undoubtedly makes it dangerous, it is also useful and effective when em - ployed for the good (Boyancé).
MYTH IN ANTIQUITY PIERRE-MAXIME SCHUHL 1968
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A ferocious playfulness and self-mockery characterizes the poem, supersaturating its incantational language: the meaning of "die" as orgasm, here bizarrely linked to a prelude of prayer; the tradition of preaching at the execution place; compact apothegms like "Wonder hinders love and hate" or "Hope went on the wheel of lust."
Slate Magazine 2009
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For his greatest virtues as a writer are also his greatest vices: his incantational love of great waterfalls of words, combined with the wild scholarly enthusiasms of a brilliant autodidact.
unknown title 2008
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For his greatest virtues as a writer are also his greatest vices: his incantational love of great waterfalls of words, combined with the wild scholarly enthusiasms of a brilliant autodidact.
unknown title 2008
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Unlike invocational magic, which requires "calling on" or invoking demons and the like from the psychic sphere of existence, incantational magic, the magic of English literature's high fantasy for the most part, requires "singing along" or harmonizing with the Creative Word that creates the fabric of reality.
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The witchcraft of the series is, without exception, incantational magic.
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On War for incantational purposes, but all of their works reflected the events which had again freed “the primitive violence of war ... from all conventional restrictions ....
WAR AND MILITARISM THEODORE ROPP 1968
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