alchemy

He was deeply in this conflict of going: I work incredibly hard at this thing, but what is the other element — that alchemy?

So I gave in to indulgence and made a béchamel: one of the five mother sauces of classical French cooking, a simple alchemy of butter, flour and milk that turns heat into velvet.

He explained the strange alchemy of the mezzanine CDO—and said that he expected losses up to $300 billion from this sliver of the market alone.

There is a tricky alchemy to putting together a modern back three.

The duo were an unusual pairing: Ball was the quiet technician, hunched over his keyboard, while Almond was a flamboyant showman, all glitter and eye-liner; but they achieved a rare musical alchemy.