conjuration

Example Sentences

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It’s an inward-looking musical conjuration of a city that’s partially vanished — to refugee outflows, to military curfews — and a city that is still, defiantly, standing.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

The staging of the scene was, typically, a last-minute improvisation, a conjuration out of chaos.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

I am not capable of that sort of conjuration, and it seems that many others in the media no longer are, either.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2014

But by then the myth of the killer-ape had caught hold and Dart’s conjuration had mesmerised millions.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2012

In order to be efficacious, the conjuration should be accompanied by chanting, either an incantation or a song.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley