semi-magical

The familiar semi-magical Petrarchan markers are in place – a forest where the weary lover-hunter will lose his way, the elusive and singular deer who is both prey and fatal enchantress.

Love in literature 2011

The plot which begins of on a quest slowly then turns into a semi-magical nature as Connelly discovers more about his quarry and the tales surrounding him.

"Mr. Shivers" by Robert Jackson Bennett (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman and Mihir Wanchoo) Cindy 2010

Two well known “celestial hieroglyphs,” or semi-magical, semi-scientific mainstays of science fiction, are time travel and travel that exceeds the speed of light.

‘How Fantasy Took Over Science Fiction’ « Gerry Canavan 2009

Spending hours and hours revising my work, tinkering with voice and story, reminded me of a semi-magical moment a few years back, when an editing client of mine has just made a major breakthrough with her book.

Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The Frankenstein manuscript, part I, or, Puritans in the present? 2009

It is said that the English regiments about to be immolated in Flanders during World War I requested a reading of John of Gaunt's deathbed speech from Richard II, replete as it is with semi-magical nationalist references, before advancing patiently and doggedly into the killing fields.

That Blessed Plot, That Enigmatic Isle 2003

It is said that the English regiments about to be immolated in Flanders during World War I requested a reading of John of Gaunt's deathbed speech from Richard II, replete as it is with semi-magical nationalist references, before advancing patiently and doggedly into the killing fields.

That Blessed Plot, That Enigmatic Isle 2003

Desperately needed comic relief is supplied by the homoerotic descriptions of missiles, bullets, and the "Great Truncheon of Held," Jagger's semi-magical club that he wields as the true heir to the former Kings of Held:

And now, from SF Hall-of-Famer Adolf Hitler . . . Douglas Hoffman 2005

Desperately needed comic relief is supplied by the homoerotic descriptions of missiles, bullets, and the "Great Truncheon of Held," Jagger's semi-magical club that he wields as the true heir to the former Kings of Held:

Archive 2005-06-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

We are not in any way trying to focus attention on some empty kind of occultism, or to suggest a semi-crazy, semi-magical interpretation of facts.

FallNews - all mud and witches 1998

They would burn Margo, too, and the sick Afrikaaner who had taught Kynan to shoot the semi-magical rifle.

Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995