incantation
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“Asmodeus” is a bewildering incantation about the coupling of poetry and squalor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
As passengers chanted the incantation together, white light flashed through the carriage, and music swelled from the speakers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Moved by the spectacle, Albarn asks the band to repeat the song's final chorus, whispering the lyrics like an incantation.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
“Monument Eternal” is a talisman, an incantation that shows the author fearless and confident in her challenge to the distorting influence of race in America that James Weldon Johnson identified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
A reasonable amount of cheating ensued; many people were merely whispering the incantation instead of saying it aloud.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
This ritual lasted an entire night and involved burning small figures made of wax and clay while an exorcist recited specific incantations.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
The combination of the Welshman’s grim poetics and the singer’s apocalyptic incantations gets the set off to a powerful start and signals something entirely new for the Charli XCX oeuvre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
And, in a concession to modernity, as well as holding up feathers in a blessing for the King, the elder was reading his incantations from an iPhone.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
His music ignored genre boundaries, and his singing often sounded like shamanic incantations in an invented language.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
"I also know the sacrificial songs,” said Siddhartha, "but I will not sing them any more. I also know incantations, but I will not pronounce them any more. I have read the scriptures. ...”
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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Lord of the Flies
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"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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