How To Use Conjuring In A Sentence
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Despite a title suggesting it delivers a spot of abracadabra, The Conjuring pulls no rabbits out of hats.
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Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist.
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
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Would such conjuring tricks give their writings more authority?
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The only way he was able to recognize him was when a conjuring trick was found in one of his trouser pockets.
A Channel of Peace
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Cardinal, accused him of prevarication and weakness, and threw himself at her Majesty's feet, conjuring her in the name of the King her son, not to authorise, by an example which he called fatal, the insolence of a subject who was for wresting favours from his sovereign, sword in hand.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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The wizard of Wishaw was not to be denied, however, conjuring a remarkable - and intentional - shot in which he ricocheted one red off another and into the top corner.
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In fact, I think it is this admiration for contraptions - for tricky pieces of apparatus that do this when you push that - which often attracts people to the field of conjuring.
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They swung back and forth, conjuring eddies from the still air.
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He's a self-confessed rebel, a ‘poet-in-the-sky’, a prestidigitator who can do conjuring tricks and pick a pocket or two.
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A Western team filmed him with infrared cameras and, of course, were able to show that he was performing a conjuring trick.
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It shows that there is no unified front even within the field of conjuring and that personal biases can affect the theory and, therefore, the understanding of methods.
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Even quite wealthy individuals confess to conjuring up images of going cold and hungry.
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Conte's robotlike bugs have a distinctly spooky look, conjuring the frequent sci-fi fear about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the planet.
Dr. Terminator: The Prosthetics Designer Who Makes Sci-Fi Sculptures
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A dream (or possibly dreams), "such as had not been before", appears to him and he seems to be further described as conjuring "by the Name of Heaven and Earth"; but as the ends of all these lines are broken, the exact connexion of the phrases is not quite certain.
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition
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There is every chance that he performed a little sleight of hand and other conjuring.
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His old-fashioned conjuring tricks are brilliant and done with throwaway comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shouldn't he be conjuring up mana to help with the disaster relief effort?
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Powder coated fir trees line the loops conjuring images of snow monsters and giant gnomes.
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For the parapsychologist, this should be considered a useful introduction to the workings of the mind of a creative thinker in the field of conjuring.
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The outstanding soloist in the concerto was 26-year-old Alec Frank-Gemmill, playing a valveless instrument, as were the obbligato horn section, conjuring misty overtones and harmonics, mellow in mood as well as raw.
LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
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Novices in the field of conjuring may be surprised at the diversity of ways one might misdirect attention.
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Polysemaniacs cannot read or hear the word fatuous without conjuring up some image or other of fatness, possibly a paunchy wise-guy at a party.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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He was a fabulous singer and songwriter who was equally adept at adapting blues classics or conjuring new standards, seemingly, with ease.
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The film is like a ceremony conjuring the dead, with the editing suite taking the place of the spiritualist's table.
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It's wonderfully at odds with the naivety of the fairytale strings and Clark's choirgirl vocals, conjuring up a hazy world in which nothing seems quite stable, a state helped along by the addition of magnificently oddball heavy riffs and stuttering synths.
St Vincent: Strange Mercy – review
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But Syjuco is only in his mid-30s, and he already possesses the wand of the enchanter, conjuring up striking scenes like this one: After buying a tiger for a pet, Salvador's blustering father decides to hand-feed the wretched animal some bacon.
'Ilustrado' by Miguel Syjuco, reviewed by Michael Dirda
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Woolf enjoys furnishing Johnson's London house in her imagination as much as she enjoys, we suspect, conjuring up the anemic-brained man in the ulster.
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A Western team filmed him with infrared cameras and, of course, were able to show that he was performing a conjuring trick.
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They introduced him to the village; he played his gramophone, performed conjuring tricks, put on puppet shows, and talked about justice for the peasants.
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The conjuring act has proven harder to pull off this campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
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IT is perhaps the world's most evocative place name, conjuring up hazy images of a fabled land at the ends of the earth.
The Sun
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His pictures have an appeal beyond the visual, conjuring up the almost tropical heat, the lush green of hedgerows starred with flowers, the scent of fresh grass and the choral chirping of insects.
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The entertainer didn't fool us with his conjuring.
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Conjuring a pleasant place like a beach, or a raft on a lake can help you take your mind off the urge and relax.
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More than half a century after the fall of Nazi Germany, it is still impossible to discuss the German word heil without immediately conjuring up thoughts of the infamous
Notes on 'Essay Title'
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Travelling spectacle represents the oldest tradition with showmen, funambulists, conjuring tricks and acrobatics.
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A head-spinning stint in Hollywood as a choreographer followed, with Mr. Donen conjuring imaginative routines for "Anchors Aweigh" as well as lesser-known projects.
Donen Goes Back On the Town
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It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation, it may be a conjuring trick, with a natural explanation.
Christianity Today
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This highly evocative work had a real African feel, conjuring up the jungle sounds of insects and birds on the flute with a tropical hum from the violin, viola and cello.
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“Take back your beads, cummer; I know no legerdemain, can do no conjuring tricks,” said the mediciner, who, more moved than perhaps his rugged nature had anticipated, endeavoured to avoid receiving the ill omened gift.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Edda!" repeated Ronald to himself, the name conjuring up a thousand recollections of his far-distant home, for he had there heard it frequently.
Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War
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But the thing I don’t like about this case down here is what I call the conjuring trick element.’
Police at the Funeral
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The last word hung in the air, conjuring images of the Star Chamber.
Law of Attraction
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Did you find the dream sequences effective in conjuring up the memories and surreal perceptions of the injured Wanda and the dying Margaret?
Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos: Questions
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Watson's orotund voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheery tempi, conjuring the Med, lemon trees and a large dollop of la dolce vita straight into your living room.
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Identify a demand in the market and satiate it by conjuring a team out of nothing.
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And in this welter of spoiled treasure were the great conjuring books hurled amid the ruin of retorts and aludels of glass and lead and silver, tossed and broken on the chamber floor.
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That might sound improbable, but so are all conjuring tricks - that is the point of them.
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Small, everyday cantrips, often considered party tricks by the more learned members of their race, are taught to whelplings, things like lighting a small fire, conjuring a cooling breeze, and the such.
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I once said that Jonny was farouche, which he's never forgotten, but he was less so today, despite one of the conceits of the production being that Iago is conjuring the whole thing.
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Taukat showed his agreement by muttering the words of a spell and conjuring a cloud of acid rain over the unsuspecting targets.
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It's like having a conjuring trick explained, interesting and a bit of a let-down: there is no magic, you find, only great skill and infinite care.
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Clouds are a powerful Logo, conjuring imagery of dreams, creativity and playfulness.
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But some of the works have a softer edge, and these still-mysterious iconic works evoke a land of vaudevillian conjuring and a world of wonders.
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His job was to create disguises, conjuring up such convincing new identities for agents that even their own families were not able to recognize them.
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So there's absolutely no conviction that what was observed in the seance room is anything more than very clever conjuring.
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He is good at conjuring with silver coins.
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Through simple disuse and lack of feedback, she may stop conjuring up stories.
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Within these dense geometries, he achieved virtuosic manipulations of optically mixed color, conjuring intriguing tensions between effects of transparency and opacity, flatness and volume.
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Most of these conjuring tricks depend on sleight of hand.
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IT is perhaps the world's most evocative place name, conjuring up hazy images of a fabled land at the ends of the earth.
The Sun
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The doors of these niches are white paper panels; the standing shelves and inside partitions, consisting of light woodwork, are put together almost too finically and too ingeniously, giving rise to suspicions of secret drawers and conjuring tricks.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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All magazines and newspapers are a kind of conjuring trick - they put a gloss of coherence upon chaos.
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Conversely, the 'ambient' tracks float in amorphous realms of drifting waves, each composition conjuring a realm of becalmed bliss.
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This season he has shown remarkable consistency, conjuring up a combined total of 12 goals and 32 points.
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Mostly they pull it off: Hanks with his fleshy, sorrowing potato-face, and Newman, his ageless blue eyes glaring out with a predatory serenity, conjuring something Shakespearean and damned.
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For then he would place obstacles in their path, conjuring up dragons of the mind or unleashing the bandits who haunted the unpatrolled shadowlands through which ran the trade route linking the Ganga to the peninsula's capitals.
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‘Psychics’ who are honest about their deception call themselves mentalists and call their art magic or conjuring.
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In his latest collection, Sweet Land Stories, Doctorow hauls this preoccupation out to the high lonesome prairies, conjuring a cast of religious visionaries and orphans on the lam.
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Brave as she was, she had always had a fear of the dark and her imagination conjuring up wolf howls didn't help her situation.
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Interesting things take place when you perform conjuring tricks for people.
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Magick should not be confused with magic, which is the art of conjuring and legerdemain.
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He is a wizard at conjuring genre-busting garb.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even quite wealthy individuals confess to conjuring up images of going cold and hungry.
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This grueling post-apocalyptic National Book Award winner earns its scenes of menace and the odd expletive by believably conjuring a future in which people survive by scavenging materials from the rusting hulks of oil tankers.
Darkness Too Visible
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About him stood three priests, true shavelings, clean shorn and polled, who were muttering strange words to the devils out of a conjuring book.
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Jugglery and conjuring, of a noisy, mysterious, and, we must add, rather silly nature, is "medicine," and the juggler is a "medicine-man.
The Dog Crusoe and his Master
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Your mind begins to spin, as the last of your brain's oxygen is used up, conjuring whatever images it can come up with
your past, the future you're never going to see, your dreams, your nightmares
until finally, at long last
Jaxraven Diary Entry
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She is a conjuring trick.
The Times Literary Supplement
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'Convergence' is an appealing term conjuring up an image of things neatly slotting together, and there is some technical justification as proprietary communications and interconnections are replaced by one unified approach-transmitting everything over the internetworking protocol (IP), the foundation of the Internet.
IT-Director.com Papers
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Nowadays you might expect to hear of ‘animal spirits’ in shamanic ritual, conjuring the spirit of the bear.
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The blank background beautifully reflects the tonal differences, conjuring up the stark light of the Mediterranean and the murky tones of America.
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The Bible certainly does address the issue of dealing with evil spirits in that it explicitly forbids engaging in pagan worship, conjuring up the dead or spirit-guides (what we call necromancy--things like ouija boards and mediums and seances), and anything that might be called magic (trying to manipulate the material world by spiritual means).
Archive 2006-10-01
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Note the use of the term prophetic by both, with its complex of connotations quite at odds with the grounding in science — religion and rapture, voices and visions, the conjuring otherwise known as fantasy defined, for the moment, not in terms of literature but in terms of psychology: the sustained fancy; the ludic or oneiric imagining; from the Greek phantasia; a making visible.
Notes from New Sodom: Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café
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The gang yucked it up over his faux pas, conjuring up images of an answering machine tucked into a backpack and tethered to a cellphone.
Has voicemail killed the answering machine?
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It's fun to learn magic tricks and be able to do close up conjuring, and it's also an interesting learning process.
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Yes, if you're the kind of person who likes to have conjuring tricks explained to you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Death in creative awakening, however, or death as a giving up or a letting pass the very thoughts our minds are forever conjuring, is not a matter of triumph and loss.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
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However, there's a lot more to staging a concert for 35,000 people than just conjuring up a glitzy stage.
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Conjuring visions of sitting astride a pinto pony, an octagon-barreled rifle across the saddle, a gentle breeze blowing across the prairie grass, this gun embodies the frontier spirit.
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She vanishes, as in a conjuring trick.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two works together conjuring the horror of a dystopia which is never as far away as you might imagine.
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Saez is a gifted impressionist, conjuring a flickering illusion of other places and cultures.
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Every day a different chef will be conjuring up delicious dishes in the restaurant.
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The sternest bachelor was a boy once, and he will have a sort of retrospective enjoyment of our great play-house in conjuring up his own youthful image swinging from the rings, leaping over the horses, and exercising on the parallel bars of our gymnasium.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
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Children's Games is the title of the work, conjuring Pieter Bruegel's great painting of the same name, and there are traces here of the Flemish painter's compendious humour and spirit, just as there is something of Magritte in the queer scenarios of Alÿs's little paintings.
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception; Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World
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In addition to conjuring her fruity spreads such as this summer's sublime Strawberry Rose Geranium, Ms. Taylor has just expanded her collection of herbal-infused sweetened syrups, all of which inspire culinary adventurousness.
Bits & Bites: News You Can Eat
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As so often in food, the technological conjuring tricks tend to boost profits, not pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times
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She curled into a ball, shuddering as her imagination began conjuring the torture methods that she had heard rumors of.
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The great man, with his cocked hat, his ventripotent waistcoat and spreading coat-tails, looked absurdly foreshortened and distorted, like a figure in a conjuring-glass.
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Perhaps you would like to see a little bit of legerdemain, or a paltry amount of prestidigitation, or a conundrum of conjuring.
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‘Psychics’ who are honest about their deception call themselves mentalists and call their art magic or conjuring.
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In the epoch of globalisation the conjuring up of national values inevitably assumes reactionary, chauvinistic or xenophobic forms.
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You can go the Uri Geller route and claim that it's not conjuring at all, just good old fashioned paranormal power.
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Admittedly, there's a minefield of kitsch to cross before you can be certain of conjuring up absolutely no visual resemblance to Widow Twankee, Liberace or Lesley Joseph in full fig - but the time has come to quell those fears.
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The materials might be minimal but the effects are a sublime bit of illusionism, elegantly conjuring alternative worlds one minute, and turning back to bits of string the next.
This week's new exhibitions
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Ruling Saudi Arabia remains a conjuring act.
Times, Sunday Times
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In The Mummy, during the scene where Imhotep is conjuring up the sandstorm, the camera pans up in order to not have Arnold Vosloo’s lower half in the scene because a gust of wind blew his robe up and you could see his bare derriere.
Movie Trivia
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Contestants will be judged on their magical content and technique, general conjuring ability and their presentation, appearance and personality.
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Both the carnival atmosphere of sketches like these and the comedy conjuring were enhanced by colour for the first time.
Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
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His close-up conjuring is undeniably impressive, inducing a level of astonishment among his guests that can be measured by the number of obscenity bleeps which pepper their incredulous reactions.
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It is based on choreographer Julia Griffin's memories of Blackpool, in particular the Tower Ballroom, where she transforms the waltz into a modern dance, conjuring up images of a sand storm.
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In an instant the feeding birds all fled, vanishing into the mighty hedge like a conjuring trick.
Times, Sunday Times
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An 18th century pamphlet The Budget Opened likened Sir Robert Walpole to a mountebank opening his ` wallet of quack medicines and conjuring tricks '-- a less polite explanation of the term budget in its financial sense than the discreeter view that it refers to the ` Chancellor's leather bag or dispatch box,' hence to its contents.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
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According to medieval hagiography, Patrick's powers also encompassed raising the dead, conjuring snow on a summer's day and, of course, ridding Ireland of snakes.
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In reality, it's little more than a pointless conjuring trick.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the emotionally devastating Goya and even the eerily detached Manet are far superior in conjuring lived horror, with flowing blood and choking gun smoke, it’s because they belonged to times when organized violence could still be convincingly registered in specific detail, at human scale, and painting had not yet lost its grip on external reality to photography and on historical fiction to the movies.
June 2006
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Every day a different chef will be conjuring up delicious dishes in the restaurant.
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I am always told, by those who purport to know, that there is a simple explanation for all conjuring tricks, but I think it is I who must be simple, because I continue to be completely stumped by all this sleight of hand.
