sorceress
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Women are the most empowered they have ever been to be the sorceress of their own success — especially materially.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
Elphaba, in contrast, is a naturally talented sorceress whose green skin led her father to reject her from the moment she was born.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024
The pattern across the jersey is inspired by a fifth-century BC vase attributed to Persephone, which depicts Ulysses and the sorceress Circe in Homer's Odyssey.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
The title figure is a formidable sorceress who ends up falling in love with one of the victims she keeps on her fantastical island.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
She was a sorceress of some sort, maybe like Medea or Circe.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
“Wicked” also benefited from mostly positive reviews hyping the performances of its leading sorceresses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2024
Yennefer, meanwhile, comes to know power of a different kind via the world of magic, chaos, and its political split between male wizards and female sorceresses.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2019
This sequence, which features backup sorceresses in black capes like swirling bat wings, is impressively mysterious and dynamic, thanks to choreographer Rachel Leigh Dolan and costume designer Debra Kim Sivigny.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2017
Halle Berry was playing Storm, who hails from African sorceresses and whose mutant powers include controlling the weather.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2016
As we first saw them, from a distance, they might have been so many sorceresses at their magic rites.
From Our Journey to the Hebrides by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
