conjure

"I had hoped that Nolan's affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters," she wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The re-created history, which is where many historical documentaries fail, looks good, and the scenes the writers conjure up are well done, if verging sometimes on melodrama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

“The Odyssey” had to conjure the grand scale and mythic weight of Homer’s epic poem, the original hero’s journey, which has been a wellspring of western storytelling for thousands of years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

There are 100 feasible readings of Żuławski’s film, and just when those all seem to make sense, you could conjure up a 101st.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

The total opposite of Reagan, who'd give you her last conjure dollar if you ran out and who never let a bad day show up on her face.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Schlafly, were she around today, would probably not be the wise mentor Waters conjures in “Lead Like Jael.”

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Our critic said the presentation “sets out to recast Moses as more complicated than the cheerful, childlike images her name conjures and as a legitimizer of self-taught art.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The phrase "American dream" was coined in the 1930s and often conjures up images of suburban families, solid jobs and beach vacations.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

The narrative conjures meaning from the Los Angeles cityscape by fusing a hodgepodge of textbook theories about the sprawling metropolis onto the gritty reality of daily life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Every now and then, I try to remember one of his riddles, but it only conjures up more regret and guilt.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

Marco Piemontese’s striking period costumes conjured the artists’ milieu, and Marcus Doshi’s lighting evoked both festivity and the tragedy of the ending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Then once more, at the behest of RCA Records, to Bonnie Tyler — a name she conjured up by mixing and matching names she read in a local newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Last year, OpenAI’s Sora 2 video tool drew outrage in Hollywood after users conjured up dead celebrities without their estates’ consent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

The duo then conjured up plenty of drama and some superb snooker as they traded the next two frames.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

“As you see, elf, the Dark Mark was conjured here a short while ago,” said Mr. Diggory.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

But private money managers have been conjuring up new debt instruments faster than thinly stretched state insurance commissioners can rein them in, and the regulatory process sometimes resembles a game of whac-a-mole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

And conjuring up concerns about how the Olympics will operate when L.A. is supposed to open its arms to the world two years from now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Those ideas were made manifest in lavish PR material conjuring up fantastical landscapes that attracted reams of coverage that mingled awe and derision.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Teddy Thompson possesses one of those voices, a golden, vivid instrument capable of conjuring joy — though not in excess; he’s English — and caverns of heartache.

From Salon ● May 15, 2026

He was fine for 2,400 years as just Socrates without me conjuring him up to help me out of dumb messes like fake double dates with Jeff the leg jiggler.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King