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
A cracking whip and a thudding bass drum bring this sublime conjuration to an end.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019
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
Thereupon the first comer murmured certain formulas of conjuration, and performed some ceremonies, when his companion slowly drew up one of the masks.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de