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"sorcery" Definitions
  1. magic that uses evil spirits

298 Sentences With "sorcery"

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This sorcery took four months of engineering, Allen told me.
Unfortunately, Warhol's sorcery hadn't reached the suburbs of the Midwest.
In our day, is there anything like this sorcery scare?
Portals to dimensions as yet untouched by humankind. Sorcery. Necromancy.
There isn't actually any sorcery involved (that I know of).
These babies are considered a manifestation of sorcery and witchcraft.
" The lawmaker went on to call the vaccine researcher's work "sorcery.
It's like sorcery for your lizard brain making you more aware.
Click here to view original GIFWhat sorcery is at work here?
I only hope we can all increase the sorcery in 2017.
Bug hunting may sound like hacker sorcery, but no not really.
Partisans on both sides look at her success and see sorcery.
And then some batshit, against-all-odds Spring Training sorcery went down.
Game of Thrones is back and bristling with spears, sex, and sorcery.
He reintroduced me to cooking — the sheer sorcery of it, the payoff.
He was Prospero and Ariel, sorcery, mischief and danger, all in one.
Like, that's the closest thing we've got to actual sorcery on Earth.
Sorcery or not, Epstein built a championship franchise, there's no denying that.
So no sorcery, or hidden talents, or acquired hobbies had been revealed.
Because if VW ever builds this it'll be some kind of sorcery.
In 2012 he released his first album for Hot Charity, Acousmatic Sorcery.
Ditto for The Witcher, a swords-and-sorcery series it just debuted.
" As one of his characters explains, "Sorcery is a sword without a hilt.
Especially after he walks into a room and catches her practicing some sorcery.
The new shades are named Lord Star, Iridescent Throne, Sickening, Sorcery, and Wizards Glass.
But this...this is some illuminati-type sorcery that we're too scared to touch.
Now, we've learned one other cult brand is in on the sorcery: Nyx Cosmetics.
He counts ancient and medieval sorcery, as well as Hermeticism and alchemy, as influences.
Saudi Arabia arrested and imprisoned people on charges of insulting Islam and practicing sorcery.
The only sorcery effective against him is solidarity: more magic, more craft, more witches.
She'll portray Magik, the sister of Deadpool's Colossus whose powers include sorcery and teleporting.
Officials eager to demonstrate their loyalty extracted confessions of sorcery from citizens under torture.
"There's no sorcery involved in this," Ms. Smith said of Mr. Buttigieg's fund-raising.
TEAM TIME: If you co-write a book about magic, is that crowd-sorcery?
In the weeks that followed, more and more micro-abrasions appeared as if through sorcery.
Chicago label Hausu Mountain's Mugen series of releases offers a special sort of curatorial sorcery.
A video was shared of a method that I can only describe as beautiful sorcery.
By that time 80,000 people had been tried for sorcery, and half of them executed.
When Souffront finished, the DJs flanked behind him bowed, acolytes awed by their master's sorcery.
Sorcery. A two-bulb starter kit (including the required hub) goes for $250 on Amazon.
Luckily, these enchanting all-in-one spell kits are like the Blue Apron of sorcery.
There was a time when Chris could pass off an eclipse as his own sorcery.
" Then she thinks: "But saying it's hormones is the same as saying witchcraft or sorcery.
It's hashish, opium, Adderall, cocaine, anal sex, BDSM, sex work, sorcery, ordeal, and holy rage.
Two elderly men who were accused of "sorcery" were publicly beheaded in October, the report said.
I've seen Karlie Kloss' abs — what kind of cardio sorcery did I just sign up for?
She had the invisible sorcery of quiet authority, always kind, never needing to shout or threaten.
Arguably, the future perfect contains a great degree of foresight, a perspicacity and sorcery of sorts.
"A Dark Song" might be soaked in sorcery, but its true magic lies in its construction.
Hungry City 9 Photos View Slide Show ' I did not expect sorcery from a preserved turnip.
More interesting are the reasons that celebrities choose to submit themselves to his acting-class sorcery.
Weasley's version, the Eta Clock relies on modern technology rather than actual sorcery to accomplish the job.
It is a region where sorcery and ancient traditions conspire to create a dangerous situation for women.
Watch this demo video of it as it gets tossed around and turns flame into smoke. Sorcery!
I usually feel pretty good about my cable management habits, but this is some next-level sorcery.
The diet purifies the body and mind for shamanic work such as healing, hunting, sorcery, or divination.
What once felt like sorcery in his work now sometimes seems, in Book Six, like fumbling tricks.
It's the game as it was before its first expansion: hardcore fantasy with sword-and-sorcery combat.
Don't expect any luxury cars or trips to outer space; this is a world of swords and sorcery.
The Joule ($200) is a handy tool for sous-vide sorcery, offering app-based controls and temperature readouts.
The Joule ($200) is a handy tool for sous-vide sorcery, offering app-based controls and temperature readouts.
Sorcery spans four separate interconnected games, each allowing you to transfer your progress (read: decisions and consequences) over.
For one thing, the locale feels more modern, and less like a traditional swords-and-sorcery fantasy realm.
For the wretched of the Earth, the language of power can be the most potent sorcery of all.
His brand of sorcery involves creating simple paper objects that look like they're bending the fabric of space.
Golden State conjured its usual brand of basketball sorcery, draining 3-pointers and flying for fast-break dunks.
What kind of diabolical sorcery could compare with the disappearance of millions by Stalin and his security apparatus?
But even with the love for the urban myths, there's still plenty of space for swords and sorcery.
Ms. Le Guin embraced the standard themes of her chosen genres: sorcery and dragons, spaceships and planetary conflict.
And the frozen yogurt—dense and tangy, topped with warm, whipped honey from Prospect Park—is pure sorcery.
Travel with us to Hamsterwartz, where tiny hamster witches and wizards learn all they can about hamster sorcery.
Additionally, sorcery is not being used as evidence in the impeachment inquiry, and the sentence is not death.
I do not know how the four-calculator setup works, and will assume it's just some sort of sorcery.
Suffice it to say, this sorcery allows Zcash transactions to be validated without actually exposing any of their details.
If you want to get started with technological sorcery, you have to learn a programming language first, of course.
So how does the bathtub get so flat without the use of sorcery or some kind of alien technology?
There he met the Ancient One, a... well, ancient person who taught him all about sorcery and otherworldly dimensions.
Some commenters saw how the Qianlong Emperor's response to the sorcery scare could be applied to their own lives.
But a bit of wonky balance can be forgiven in such a lush and sweeping swords-and-sorcery romance.
"The Magicians," with its undercurrents of Harry Potter and Narnia, returns for a second season of increasingly violent sorcery.
We don't know what kind of sorcery is at work, but we find it super impressive and we applaud it.
She also discarded the genre's florid dialogue and sword-and-sorcery themes for terser language and more complex character development.
Book and movie titles differ often in adaptation — and not always because producers think sorcery is more enticing than philosophy.
His search for a cure brings him to a mystic who trains him in sorcery and shows him alternate realities.
Master Raymond and the Comte have been charged with sorcery and the king wants Claire to look into their souls.
"Our primary focus lies in the war against polytheism and apostasy, and of those, Sufism, sorcery and divination," he said.
A rippling offering of psychedelic, sun-burnt sorcery of the high standard we've come to expect from the Australian outfit.
But he still needed to summon all his sorcery to overcome a broken-down, K.D.-free version of the Warriors.
Some even believe that William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" is based on tales of sorcery and shipwreck in the area.
International human-rights groups have expressed alarm at the growing number of foreign women, typically housemaids, facing trial for sorcery.
To test just how far this sweet sorcery goes, Petsies, a custom stuffed animal company, conducted a study with 1,000 people.
Although the details of the alleged sorcery have not been revealed, no one would be surprised if it involved a coconut.
Some people initially dismissed it as another swords-and-sorcery fantasy series before mainstream viewers began to recognize its broader appeal.
Series have starred the internet sensation Grumpy Cat, the government spy James Bond and the sword and sorcery heroine Red Sonja.
The kind of realism that tends to predominate in literary fiction is "as fantastical as sword and sorcery," James told me.
Then she'd begin the sorcery required to make tahdig, the crispy rice crust by which every Persian cook's worth is measured.
It happened again Sunday, when Aaron Rodgers pulverized the Cowboys' souls in his typical display of sorcery at AT&T Stadium.
Fans of the director John Tiffany know that "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is only his latest bit of sorcery.
It underlines the truth that his genius was essentially graphic, on a historical arc of linear sorcery from Ingres to Picasso.
Even though Yennefer fails the traditional tests of sorcery, Tissaia keeps pushing her, and eventually Yennefer begins to fulfill her potential.
Ancient traditions are still an everyday part of life, and people across the country still believe in the practice of sorcery.
Ellen was the first person to actually reveal to me through her extraordinary art  that love is a form of cosmic sorcery.
Yet of course, in a series full of sorcery like Thrones, death isn't necessarily the end of the story for a character.
Killmonger is still out for revenge and Vibranium in the short "Something Strange," but he isn't ready to deal with Strange's sorcery.
Why the change from the more urban fantasy setting from your Shadow Ops series to something closer to traditional swords and sorcery?
Men, on the other hand, could become very famous practicing sorcery, as it was one of the most appreciated forms of entertainment.
Swords and sorcery combine with a near-future setting, where characters can take selfies while riding giant chickens called chocobos into battle.
One trick to help open up a small space is a combination of optical illusion sorcery and space-saving craftsmanship: the mirror.
The video highlights the intimate training between Strange and Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) as the doctor masters ancient techniques of sorcery and combat.
Everett The sword and sorcery movies of the 1980s may look cheesy by today's standards, but they're fondly remembered by many fans.
Watch this video to see how this sorcery works: All you need for your Prynt Pocket is the compatible ZINK Sticker Paper.
Look at the Instagram tag #witchvibes and you will see fashion, makeup, and sorcery, as well as women paying each other compliments.
She promised, on the site, to reverse dark spells with a form of magic that straddled the line between sorcery and healing.
Islamic State earlier this year posted a video of the beheading of two Sufis in northern Sinai, accusing them of practicing "sorcery".
They shared a night together early in the season and who knows what manner of in vitro sorcery Qyburn could whip up.
Thanks to this sorcery, Brady maintains the strength of arm to throw downfield and the sturdiness of leg to sidestep a blitz.
In this eerie yet underdeveloped take on the well-known fairy tale, two siblings find food and sorcery deep in the woods.
The plot twist legitimized Melissandre's sorcery, excused Jon from the Night's Watch, and added credence to the "prince that was promised" prophecy.
The target of superstitions and sorcery, they are hunted down for their body parts, some of which are thought to confer magical powers.
Some shows are getting a second life with reboot and revivals, but The CW's sisterly sorcery series, Charmed, won't be one of them.
Although this software has a name that portends dark sorcery and dread magic, I still think it has a "ghost" of a chance.
In short, the sorcery required to keep a white shirt pristine in an environment that is constantly trying to stain you eludes me.
The government convicted and imprisoned people on charges of apostasy, blasphemy, violating Islamic values and moral standards, insulting Islam, black magic and sorcery.
My genres were sword and sorcery or Forgotten Realms licensed fiction about brave adventurers exploring lands without the protection of states or cities.
Forget about the underlying arithmetic and how to pay for all of it, which either requires sky-high taxation or flat-out sorcery.
Enforcers are shown hitting one man with plastic tubing and beheading two elderly adherents of Sufi Islam, accusing them of sorcery and apostasy.
I considered trying second-time-mom sorcery I'd read about and microwaving the wipes for two intervals of five seconds on 80 percent.
Google accomplishes this with some A.I. sorcery that involves taking a burst of photos with short exposures and reassembling them into an image.
But in any case, her glamour — in the old, root sense that aligns the word with sorcery and enchantment — is impossible to resist.
Through some sports-related sorcery, the Whitman College assistant basketball coach has developed a secret handshake with each player on the team. Yes.
But because we're skeptics — and the social media posts looked like absolute sorcery — we knew we had to give the product a try ourselves.
That's already a huge departure from the sword-and-sorcery setting of absolutely every other Zelda game where technology takes a backseat to magic.
Look over here, the voice had demanded, and my mother's eyeballs and neck robotically swiveled to the doorway as if by pure synaptic sorcery.
Having been given a Super Nintendo in her childhood, Waneella skews old school, her pictorial compositions influenced by the classic sword and sorcery genre.
Though Prospero has been exiled from Milan, and has learned sorcery from books to control the island, Miranda knows nothing of her own background.
It showed what it said were militants beheading two elderly Sufi men in the desert after they were found guilty of witchcraft and sorcery.
To the untrained eye, being able to accurately determine the extent of a company&aposs moat may seem more like sorcery than actual analysis.
The channel has scored some big "must-see" series including sword-and-sorcery blockbuster "Game of Thrones," which is produced by U.S. cable network HBO.
It will put players in the shoes of assassin Billie Lurk, who sets out to murder the man responsible for the Dishonored universe's occult sorcery.
A neighbourhood disagreement might escalate into accusations of sorcery if someone suffered a misfortune, such as a premature death in the family, after a quarrel.
This one is bizarre, even by Katt Williams' standards -- an actress is accusing the comedian of organizing a beatdown on her that included Wiccan sorcery.
For its first few years, the book was nothing but a series of disconnected stories parodying the sword-and-sorcery genre, particularly Conan the Barbarian.
On the other hand, as a result, the book, though heavy in magic, sorcery and illusion, loses its own magic because of all the instruction.
The movie — which charts the titular king of legend's ascent to the throne — seems to mix the swords and sorcery tale with Ritchie's pop sensibilities.
The contrast between Maeve's digital sorcery and her continued need for emotional validation makes her a fascinating character, at once all-powerful and hugely vulnerable.
As always, your mileage may vary, but my first entries were OXIDE (433D), REN (14D), ARP (261D), TROLL (239D), AXEL (16A), BERET and SORCERY (37A).
Monica Paulus is a human-rights activist whose brother once accused her of using sorcery to kill their father (she thinks he wanted the family house).
Summoning nefarious powers of sorcery and soothsaying, the Republican National Committee has declared Mike Pence the winner of Tuesday's vice presidential debate — hours before it happened.
We're not sure what sort of sorcery is used by Tolerant to form pasta that can cook to al dente like NBD, but we'll take it!
Capy, the game developer behind beloved indie gems Super Time Force and Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP, is finally ready to release its next big title.
After injuries and ejections, Stephen Curry returned with his usual brand of sorcery to help nudge the Warriors one step closer to a second consecutive title.
And there, Nikita Kucherov, whose affinity for scoring at critical postseason moments evokes Brad Richards's and Ruslan Fedotenko's sorcery from the Lightning's 193 Stanley Cup run.
Another woman, Sutayring Manjang, now 80, said officials forced her and others to admit they were witches and accused her of using sorcery to kill people.
He has used the religion to justify a policing of morality that included a crackdown on homosexuality and supposed sorcery, resulting in deaths of those accused.
Is she really the talented prospect we've been led to believe she is, or have we been fooled by the sorcery of the UFC's marketing department?
"Smash," a hate-watch about the making of a fictional Broadway musical, and "Galavant," a sword-and-sorcery comedy fantasia, were each canceled after two seasons.
Like the Celtic myths that she was told during her childhood, Mexico is full of stories of ancient sorcery, plumed serpents, jaguar gods and the like.
His writing combines space opera with neo-slave narrative, memoir, sword-and-sorcery fantasy and an elegy for the sexual freedoms of pre-Giuliani Times Square.
His writing combines space opera with neo-slave narrative, memoir, sword-and-sorcery fantasy and an elegy for the sexual freedoms of pre-Giuliani Times Square.
Of course, all this sorcery wouldn't be necessary if Yzerman didn't give Ryan Callahan six years and $34.8 million, but this is only about this offseason.
"The village elders said it was due to sorcery ... but a health worker showed me that one died of a hemorrhage, and explained the dangers," she said.
In an age when the occult was as sure a threat as the arctic cold, Finnmark authorities suspected witchcraft as the cause and issued a sorcery decree.
In the game, players create their own characters who learn to banish evil creatures and spirits using swords and sorcery over four days - all in full costume.
Cumberbatch plays Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon who loses the use of his hands in a car accident and discovers the world of sorcery, with Swinton his mentor.
Soothing washes of black and white take over numerous blocks of blank paper, culling out the familiar faces of Ai Weiwei and Chuck Close with artistic sorcery.
So I'm a little confused why Google didn't do some sort of microphone sorcery that ensures the Google Home Max can hear all voice commands at all times.
Available for iPhone / iPad and Android One part novel, one part RPG, inkle's Sorcery series is a deftly smart adaptation of Steve Jackon's gamebooks of the same name.
It offers up dazzling feats of sorcery and realms of wonderment (early 20th-century London and Paris among them) and manages to conjure the very opposite of magic.
What, short of true sorcery, could account for the ancient majesty of a rainforest or those really weird dances birds do when they want to attract a mate?
Here's how this sorcery works: The values that we find important are often qualities we admire in others, but we just have trouble identifying within ourselves, she said.
The way he slaloms a high pick-and-roll—or downhill skis through the open floor—before knocking down a fadeaway from the right elbow is literal sorcery.
Even in the comic's early days of simple swords and sorcery, Sim would do things like warp the edges of a panel and Cerebus's outline to represent disorientation.
Such sorcery is, however, far from routine at Salzburg, which, despite Hinterhäuser's efforts, features few new pieces and remains captive to the conservative taste of its élite audience.
Listen, Dumbledore, we know that love is the most powerful magic in the universe, but the screen sorcery of the Harry Potter films inspires much the same sentiment.
I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock — the sword and sorcery novels —when I was about 13 or 14.
Despite all the puppets, David Bowie's Goblin King steals the show in the accompanying video, with costuming that underlines in no uncertain terms the relationship between sorcery and sexuality.
Not long ago, Mad Men got the recaps, after-shows, and literary-minded critiques; now, those hosannas go to squabbling deities, swords-and-sorcery, zombies, killer robots, and raptures.
Guy Ritchie's knights of the Round Table origin story, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, is two-plus hours of sorcery, swashbuckling, and supersize CG snakes and swamp rats.
Rose's hairstylist, Tony Medina, also uploaded a photo of her, captioning it #90sSuperModel", and the commenters couldn't get enough of the look, calling it pure "sorcery" and "90s gorgeousness.
But with his next novel, Sixteenth Watch, he's switching things up a bit, swapping out the swords and sorcery for spacecraft in his first novel-length science fiction work.
Games and medievalism have a strange and intersecting history, as many video games' embrace of "sword and sorcery" aesthetics places them naturally in conversation with a mythical ancient Europe.
Madara's work is unique in that the end goal is not necessarily to create an engaging work of art, but rather, to carry out sorcery or divination with it.
At my father's side—he armed with his spear and his bow, I with my small herder's staff—I was ready to defy all the thieves and their sorcery.
"Our focus lies in the war against polytheism and apostasy, and among those Sufism, sorcery and divination," said a spokesman in ISIS' online publication al-Naba a year ago.
The victorious, charismatic Final Five utterly dominated in women's gymnastics at the Rio Olympics — in part thanks to whatever sorcery enables Simon Biles to move the way she does.
This Goya etching speaks of the trade in stealing teeth, but here I think the artist is referring to the theft of teeth for use in witchcraft and sorcery.
Trump, of course, has few such inhibitions, tweeting personally about witch hunts immediately before departing for a friendly visit to Saudi Arabia, where people are still executed for sorcery.
In the 17th century, astrologers predicted the pope would die during an eclipse; he did not, but the incident led to the banning of sorcery by the Catholic Church.
That is when Brady again summoned the sorcery of his right arm to stun the Atlanta Falcons in what is undoubtedly the greatest late surge in a Super Bowl.
"Sometimes I feel like a woman can't be considered good without people believing there's some sort of sorcery going on," commented one observer on a Reddit thread discussing the situation.
But based on the trailer, the vibe seems closer to the Hereditary sort of magic than the occasionally musical sorcery of Melissa Joan Hart's 90s adaptation of the Archie comic.
If you're looking for inspiration on how to nail this dining sorcery, then we recommend taking a page (or three) out of recipe magic maker Nina Olsson's Bowls of Goodness.
Ian Gregory Tan, co-founder and creative director at Witching Hour Studios, loathed sorcery in D&D's Third Edition, which he believed dominated campaigns and overshadowed other non-magic classes.
At a festival that generally shies away from anything too stereotypically game-y, Dragonflight is like a sword-and-sorcery novel that somehow snuck onto a bookstore's literary fiction shelf.
Arguably, AI's highest use case currently is to add futuristic sheen to traditional security tools, rebranding timeworn approaches as trailblazing sorcery that will revolutionize enterprise cybersecurity as we know it.
In our time, terrorism has emerged as an effective prescription for treating all diseases — a postmodern sorcery that has opened Syria's doors to thousands of jihadis from around the world.
In a business like fashion, where surface appeal can be a kind of sorcery, and surrealism is often mistaken for genius, to make simple clothes is to invite being overlooked.
For Children The works in this museum often cast a spell with their beauty, but the young people participating in this expedition are seeking evidence of even more powerful sorcery.
The 2007 Witch Fire, which destroyed about 1,20183 structures, had nothing to do with sorcery, but it did originate in an area of San Diego County known as Witch Creek.
Then, slowly weaves in actual witchcraft folklore until its unclear if there is an enchantress in their midst, or if fear of sorcery has just driven them (and the audience) mad.
For what is probably the first time in history, witches are preparing to gather their sorcery and cast a collective spell on the President of the United States on Friday, Feb.
Younger generations, embracing video games and smartphones as their escapism of choice, seemed indifferent or bored by D&D's make-believe world of swords and sorcery, labyrinthine rules and polyhedral dice.
A lot of the stuff that we grew up on in the 80s, the swords and sorcery, all that kind of that kind of medieval stuff, that just wasn't for us.
" But you'd also just be telling the truth, because if anything, the show — a new medievalish sword-and-sorcery fantasy on Netflix — is going to make people remember "Game of Thrones.
Sorcery is considered such a grave concern that, in 2009, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice created a specially trained unit to conduct witchcraft investigations.
Cumberbatch was in an equally mischievous mood during his 15-minute appearance, telling us how he relished learning martial arts and sorcery and undergoing physical and mental changes as his character progressed.
Click here to view original GIFWatch as these diabolos get spun and twirled in the air like they're being controlled by some sort of sorcery and not at the mercy of gravity.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Archeologists working in the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy, say they have unearthed a cache of amulets, good luck charms, gems, and other items of sorcery.
In January, Griffin, Justin, Clint, and Travis McElroy ditched the swords and sorcery story they'd been playing out since 2014 and started hunting bigfoots and other cryptids in a series called Amnesty.
Sounding a little like The Shins with more of a garage edge, Fake Laugh's "dreamy sorcery" has shared stages with everyone from Girlpool to Ride—and it's not hard to see why.
Trump, on the other hand, has plenty to maintain, though the authenticity of that bounty has been disputed, with some onlookers divining sorcery where he insists there is only God's miraculous blessing.
What looks like a magical display of sorcery is really the skillful work of programing, design, and engineering to marry the potential for technology and nature to coincide in harmonious new ways.
Mr. Nelson infuses the title track with the rhythmic sorcery that has long been his genius — singing some phrases ahead of the beat (but relaxed) and others with a laggardly slouch (but alert).
Although the internal construction of HP's Spectre borders on mechanical sorcery—with an intricate system of rubber seals and fans to keep such a powerful processor cool—its looks are not as impressive.
At the Black Rose Witchcraft coven's "Sacrament of Hekate Triodia"—a ritual for the Greek goddess of sorcery who moves between the underworld, Olympus, and the mortal realm—this was certainly the case.
There haven't been enough of these—compared to the tabletop role-playing games—so there's plenty of room just for standard fantasy, sword and sorcery, dwarves with beards and Scottish accents, the works.
And in place of caged elephants, there are wondrous puppet simulacra from the "War Horse" team, creatures of burlap and sorcery that caused several children in the audience to delightedly lose their minds.
Conan's free spirit, sharp intellect, and undying battle lust, along with the grand Hyperborian landscape in which he traveled, gave writers scaffolding on which to build the whole genre of sword and sorcery literature.
Meanwhile in the Maldives, four men have been arrested for allegedly tampering with the country's upcoming presidential elections, by using black magic, sorcery and—if history is any indication—maybe even a cursed coconut.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State's branch in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula posted a video on Tuesday depicting the beheading of two men the militant Islamist group said it had found guilty of practicing witchcraft and sorcery.
Twenty years ago, altering your vocals with Auto-Tune was considered cheating with an incomprehensible form of sorcery; today, there are entire genres and music careers that wouldn't exist without the music editing software.
When HBO aired GoT's first episode, "Winter Is Coming," in April 2011, a swords-and-sorcery show about an incestuous brother and sister who cripple a young boy did not seem like the answer.
This rhetorical sorcery has paid off for them in many ways, but it will be put to the ultimate test now that Trump is appeasing neo-Nazis in the role of GOP Grand Wizard.
As he did last year when he matched the tournament scoring record of 18 under and set a new mark with 28 birdies, Spieth's performance on the greens was mostly the stuff of sorcery.
If someone told you that Miller was actually a victim of dark sorcery—some arcane curse that left Jeff Hornacek trapped in Greg Ostertag's body—you'd at least have to give it some thought.
It's almost time for another soothing dip into the pool of blood, mayhem and sorcery that is Game of Thrones, and a new trailer is reminding us that we won't have to wait much longer.
In one surprisingly effective sequence, she dances to Johnny Cash's late-period cover of Trent Reznor's "Hurt," fluttering a hand at her forehead, slapping her thighs and churning her skirt in what looks like sorcery.
" In the fifth issue of Rumiyah, an ISIS publication, a leader for ISIS in Sinai said he wanted his group to "wage war" against Sufis and others because of their "sorcery, soothsaying, and grave-worship.
The book denounces sorcery, including the works of Cornelius Agrippa (have you gotten his card in your chocolate frogs yet?), and is considered the most influential manual on witch hunting in France in the 16th century.
These stories about toxoplasmosis remind me of stories that used to come out six or seven hundred years ago about cats and sorcery -- that cats have dark powers we don't understand, that they're witches in disguise.
In the video provided to Mashable (above), voice-cast members Owen Wilson, Armie Hammer, Nathan Fillion, Kerry Washington and more openly discuss their own burning questions about what sort of automotive sorcery is at play here.
For all the brawling and sorcery, at the play's heart are the lulls in which Macbeth mulls the witches' prophecies and the crimes they incite; in which he decides what kind of man he will be.
The best entry point to Pierce's sword-and-sorcery world, Tortall — where about half of her 29 books are set — is her four-part series Protector of the Small (First Test, Page, Squire, and Lady Knight).
The 276ers are glad to be heading home after a trying stretch in Boston, where the Celtics — whose coach, Brad Stevens, has worked basketball sorcery on an injury-ravaged roster — showed no signs of letting up.
The world's introduction to photography, the daguerreotype process, produced a shimmering, ghostly image that seemed at once so lifelike and so utterly unlifelike that it could have been made possible only through a kind of sorcery.
Officially called the Digital Flywheel program, the AI links up with Starbucks Rewards members' accounts and uses what is certain to be a combination of very complex algorithms, siren-based sorcery, and customers' insatiable drive for caffeine.
An elderly widow who had lost several infant children, and was often reduced to begging, she had little defense when her wealthier neighbors accused her of sorcery in the frenzy now known as the Salem witch trials.
Mr. Karimov's glamorous older daughter, Gulnara Karimova, had once been seen as having a promising political future, but those prospects disintegrated in a public soap opera involving charges of bribery, money laundering, physical violence and even sorcery.
Suffused with sorcery and silvery light, "November," written and directed by Rainer Sarnet, is a bizarre Estonian love story — a mishmash of folklore, farm animals and scabrous fun — in which beauty and ugliness fight to the death.
A little more than three months later, he scored what proved the winning goal in Game 4 in the first period, performing some skate-to-stick sorcery with the puck to roof it from a sharp angle.
The revelation that he fell into sorcery through love of his "dimwitted" younger son and his pivotal cry, "One cannot unlearn what one has learned," are touching, but still his occasional tendernesses seem more contradictory than poignant.
In the two weeks I spent in New York, I was never able to work out the sorcery behind how the city adds tax on products and therefore never really knew how much I would be spending.
These young apprentices in sorcery are called — and I am using only the names they have been endowed with by their Ouija board — Pipe (Carmen Berkeley), Zoom (Alyssa May Gold), Kit (Rebecca Jimenez) and Squeeze (Malika Samuel).
They appeared to be saying something forceful about the modern world, but with enough looking that forcefulness began to dissolve: was this a study in ultra-toxicity, or was it a benign terrain transformed by photographic sorcery?
Today, it almost seems like straight-up magic given how few of us have any familiarity with a bow and arrow, but I'm happy to let my brain believe this is sorcery instead of complex aeronautics at work.
A report published on Wednesday by campaign group Human Rights Watch found that Islamic State in Sirte had unlawfully executed at least 49 people accused of offences including spying, sorcery, and blasphemy over one year from February 2015.
This demonstration at the Corning Museum of Glass is basically an hour of sorcery, as Mongrain uses nothing but simple hand tools (and lots of fire) to shape and transform the glass with an astonishing amount of detail.
A bodywork technique called "fascia blasting" is making the viral rounds on Instagram, and like cupping and cryotherapy, it has a lot of people asking: What is this sorcery and do I need to be doing it, too?
In a commentary on the book in 2012, Liu Qing, another history professor at East Normal University (but no relation to his colleague Liu Chang), wrote that the 1768 sorcery scare was not a phenomenon unique to China.
Barbosa left the Warriors in 2016 after two seasons that included the first title in the run, but he still feels a deep connection to the franchise — and to the sorcery that his former teammates continue to conjure.
It's not just that we don't really know what we're getting when we thaw that bag of protein that was farmed in a sewer, or what sorcery and pain allows it to be marketed for $8 a pound.
Similarly, pairing the Watch with some AirPods, forgetting my phone at home, and working out to music or listening to a podcast while walking my dog felt less like a technological upgrade than it did a bit of sorcery.
Lord Voldemort will even make an appearance in the show, making this "a new dimension of sorcery" that strays from their past displays, which include "The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle and "The Magic of Christmas at Hogwarts Castle.
The reality-bending sorcery of Doctor Strange is what gives Marvel's latest a visual freshness that blew critics away, and now a trio of VR artists have recreated its psychedelic environments in the headset using Tilt Brush by Google.
What better way is there to prepare for the inevitable death of your favorite character than by humming along with the series' catchy theme song played on discarded technology that would seem like sorcery to the people of Westeros?
To summarize exactly how this sorcery works, the Inkbox tattoo formula consists of a bunch of natural ingredients that sink into your skin through a 15-minute application process (which is pretty much like the regular temporary tattoo process).
It is a fierce masterpiece from the Congo that understandably helped shape the fever dream of Dada theory, as this gnarly cherished charm was used to resolve disputes, or as an avenger guardian if malicious sorcery had been perpetrated.
To find out which 290s trend would compliment my zodiac situation—and yours—I reached out to Gabriela Herstik—NYLON astrologer, Fashion Is Dying editrix, and author of the forthcoming sorcery manual Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft.
And we need that sorcery if we're to inhabit the fractured mind of Hank (Paul Dano), a seemingly longtime castaway who's about to end his misery when a business-suited body washes up on the beach in front of him.
The TV was far enough away that my notes say Leandro Barbosa stole the ball and then something something sorcery, but I heard a lot of "there you go" and "that's how you do it" about him and Shaun Livingston.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Some top Chinese officials are guilty of practicing sorcery and would rather believe in gurus and Western concepts of democracy than the Communist Party, a senior minister wrote on Thursday, warning of the danger they presented to its survival.
It has something to do with whipping a bunch of air into it, swapping out sugar for calorie-free stevia, and adding a bunch of "prebiotic fiber," whatever that looks like in raw form, but it still sounds like sorcery.
The New York-based artist spent time exploring Icelandic folk magic at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft in the northwest coastal town of Hólmavík, and delving into historic manuscripts at the National and University Library of Iceland in Reykjavík.
Senior Wahhabi clerics, whose influence in Saudi society forms part of a covenant with the royal family dating back 250 years, endorse execution by beheading for offences that include apostasy, adultery and sorcery, oppose women driving or working and describe Shi'ites as heretics.
Though, for now, we can all just focus on the present, where Susie, fresh from the "evil web-spinning death" sorcery of talking to Rose on the phone, is stunned by the fact Midge already knows "the best comedian in the business," Lenny.
Dropping you into a game full of spectacular sorcery without giving you an amazing spell within the first ten minutes was a bit of a faux-pas at that point in time, and the rest of the game's design wasn't terribly current either.
Until now, Xavier's privileged late-night studiers and stoners have had exclusive access to this instant pizza sorcery, meaning the rest of America has had to push a button on their phones or—gasp—call a pizza spot for pizza on demand.
Now I've read all the books, watched the show all the way through twice, have a lot of thoughts about the Targaryen dynasty's successful experiment with religious toleration, and am still not a person who is routinely reading books about dragons and sorcery.
The legality of sorcery (known as fanditha in the local language) and black magic (sihuru) is complicated: Only those with a license from the Ministry of Health are allowed to practice fanditha, and sihuru is "considered taboo" but is not technically against the law.
"Don't do drugs" is the company line Dino-Ray Ramos, The Tracking Board [Marvel] steps into ambitious territory, opening a portal into a whole new world of magic, sorcery, and mysticism that would be elevated to levels of psychedelic proportions with the aid of hallucinogenics.
No amount of fancy aeronautical engineering calculations can change the fact that the notion of any vehicle of such vast weight and size actually flying is patently absurd; planes are clearly kept aloft by sorcery and the collective (if misguided) belief of their passengers.
To the watch cultists who inhabit sites like these, however, the new TAG is not an egregious example of price gouging but rather a steal, a timepiece so jaw-droppingly underpriced that there must be, according to the site aBlogtoWatch, some sort of sorcery involved.
"Some don't believe in Marx and Lenin but believe in ghosts and gods; they don't believe in ideals but believe in sorcery; they don't respect the people but do respect masters," he wrote in the official People's Daily, referring to spiritual leaders or gurus.
Today's resurgence, understated though it is in the bigger gaming picture, of adventure titles owes a lot to Telltale's hits with The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us. But Jon Ingold of Inkle Studios—the team behind 80 Days and Steve Jackson's Sorcery!
The Thunder have pulled a shocking 180 from Game 1, when they fouled Spurs players behind the three-point line four times in the first half and generally responded to simple pick-and-roll action as if it was some sort of newfangled sorcery.
Even the witches' sorcery is practically adorable — whether it's forcing all the adults in the town to stay at their (honestly really fun-looking) Halloween party to dance all night, or trapping teenage bullies Jay and Ernie/Ice in cages only to … force-feed them candy.
But the title "Metal Queen" has since become synonymous with Aaron's name throughout Canada, even though she abandoned the swords and sorcery shtick almost immediately and found far more success with the radio-friendly style of 1989's Bodyrock, which went nearly triple platinum in Canada.
As with other titles in the series, the player controls a mute, questing elfin lad named Link across a verdant land of swords and sorcery, amassing items and skills, encountering friend and foe and trying to rescue Princess Zelda from the clutches of the monstrous Ganon.
Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis's "Time's Arrow" wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-­Recently-Than-Then.
Partly a parody of sword-and-sorcery clichés, and partly an embrace of what makes the likes of "Game of Thrones" and "The Lord of the Rings" great, "Disenchantment" differs from the other Groening shows in that it tells one long story, broken up into shorter adventures.
So the secret to long-lasting hair color isn't some kind of in-salon sorcery reserved for the rich and famous: It's a simple process of taking care of your color from the second you sit down in the chair to the next time you're back in it.
Doctor Strange introduced the magical side of the MCU, and while Runaways is forced to present sorcery as advanced science because of Marvel Television's "no magic" rule, the existence of genuine magic in the MCU informs scenes like Nico (Lyrica Okano) trying to commune with her dead sister's spirit.
In early previews, the game's developers showed off a sword-and-sorcery hero's journey with some slightly unusual artistic flourishes, but that's only one flavor in a blend of post-apocalyptic survivalism, fantasy, alternate history, and — in by far its weirdest turn — totally non-cyberpunk virtual reality sci-fi.
In "Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768" (Harvard University Press, 1990), Mr. Kuhn examined the mass hysteria that broke out over rumors that sorcerers were roaming the country, cutting off men's braids and stealing their souls, and what this revealed about the inner functioning of the state.
As the play opens on the Puritan colonists in 1692, the seeds of the conflict have already been planted — a girl is bedridden with an unknown affliction, and her cousin, Abigail (Truett Felt), is trying to cover up a godless night of dancing, blood and would-be sorcery.
When approached from the back of the house, the lattice ceiling hides behind another brick screen, this one standing vertically on a single circumflex of steel: a 79-foot-long matrix of heavy, graceless materials, cobbled roughly together, that seems to levitate over the lawn as if by sorcery.
Paige didn't sit and rewatch the game until after the NBA draft where he was taken in the second round by the Utah Jazz (via a trade with the Brooklyn Nets.) At home, alone in his basement, Paige's mind was blown like all who watched his double-clutch sorcery live.
The archeologists believe the objects were left behind as inhabitants of Pompeii tried to escape the volcanic eruption that destroyed the city in 79 AD. The sorcery items include crystals, amber and amethyst stones, buttons made of bones, amulets, dolls, bells, phallic amulets, fists, human figurines, and a miniature human skull.
As he works to track down the missing creature, Cephalopod researcher Billy Harrow learns that London has a fantastic underworld: there's cults such as the Congregation of God Kraken, which has existed before the beginning of humanity, as well as the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, a counter-sorcery police unit.
The task of rescuing Marco Rubio's presidential campaign after his fifth-place finish in New Hampshire last week has required GOP officials and Rubio staffers to give themselves over to blind faith and sorcery—to test the Republican Party's power to shape its destiny with a potent mix of cash and wish fulfillment.
Since the Suicide Squad was presumably recruited to carry out black-site espionage, it's a shame to see street-level villains posed against generic frou-frou sorcery instead of, say, "disappearing" outspoken critics of party leadership, but there are germs of sweetness along the way to the inevitable cliffhanger and post-credits scene.
Flavoring potato chips is a fascinating mix of sorcery and science: What manufacturers are trying to capture in a chip is not the exact taste of chicken and waffles, but rather the sensory memory of the dish, to make tangible the intangible idea of a plate of fresh, hot chicken and waffles.
Nine times out of 10 (the 10th being a new Snapchat filter), this sorcery can be attributed to the freaky skin treatment that is Hanacure, a mask known for its remarkable ability to wrinkle your face faster than an overheated grape in a vineyard — then wash off to reveal brighter, softer, firmer skin immediately afterward.
It's got its own built-in flashlight that only turns on when electricity is detected nearby, illuminating the outlet and reducing the risk of getting shocked..It sounds like sorcery, but electricians already use tools with similar technology so they can quickly assess if a wire is carrying power without having to connect a multimeter.
So dense is the material, in fact, that a single page bears the accounts of Czar Alexei's courtship and marriage, a conspiracy involving accusations of sorcery, the birth of Peter the Great, the Cossack uprising of Stenka Razin complete with Razin's gruesome execution, and a governmental reshuffle thrown into a footnote; and such pages are far from rare.
A star guest at the conference, Mr. Noory hosts a popular wee-hours radio show, "Coast to Coast AM," on which government-funded dark sorcery and attempts by the military to hide evidence of an ancient race of giants are considered alongside stories that may have once seemed wildly improbable but come straight from the nightly news.
It's a clever way into the fantasy genre, such that in the beginning, you're saying to yourself, "All this political intrigue is cool, but the magical wall is silly," and then three years later you have a lot of takes about Bloodraven's use of sorcery as a tool of surveillance (don't ask, this isn't even part of the show).
The series went on to sell more than 17 million copies worldwide, even as it flew under the radar in the US. If there is a real-life Bandersnatch book, this is it By far the best from this era, and the biggest gamebook a British nerd like Stefan would have been playing in 20033, is the Sorcery!

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