sorcery

There was "enough sorcery and thrills and adventure" to sustain the spectacle, she wrote, and the filmmakers had managed to tell a sprawling story without being swallowed by it.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The two of them crafted a business plan for a bookstore, one that wouldn’t look out of place in a sword and sorcery fantasy novel, with a hidden speakeasy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

To HBO, this “Game of Thrones” spinoff is a bridge between its lucrative sword, sorcery and old magic high fantasies.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

Ubaldo Vitali declares gold to be “vulgar,” and the silver upon which he performs his sorcery to be the most beautiful precious metal in the world, one that reflects light like no other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Dany was wary of the warlock; the maegi Mirri Maz Duur had soured her on those who played at sorcery.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries."

From Time Magazine Archive

Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries.

From Time Magazine Archive

The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them.

From Time Magazine Archive

With such sorceries at her command, she should soon have no more need of the feeble tricks of alchemists and pyromancers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

We may not know whence thy strange sorceries fall— Whether they be Earth's voices wild and strong, Her high and perfect song.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith