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Перевод: incantation
[существительное] заклинание; магическая формула; колдовство; чары
Тезаурус:
- Inside, the incantation stopped and then the door slowly inched open.
- When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes, which now passed mechanically, as if in a vacuum, the students suspended in time and space, and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long, long way away, I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day:
- A destructive flood was an annual possibility, and the god of Heaven Anu and the storm-god Enlil, who were believed to have been responsible for the decision to destroy mankind, were invoked in the incantation passages of the legend of the Flood.
- Then, behind him, chill and clear, Maud spoke a kind of incantation.
- This incantation transformed snails into jet-propelled gastropoda and the family, with the duly signed-for latest member, mad a clamorous exit.
- I remember thinking all numbers look the same, none of them mean anything on their own, but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them, they're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling.
- But this incantation I use does not calm me any more.
- One, the unforgettable "incantation", the "melody" and "tune" of the services - things which were deeply rooted in his soul, and would reappear with striking force through his music and songs; and two, his distancing himself from its strictly religious aspects.
- Bobby pounded on the door with his fists, but Enoch only responded with a Jewish incantation.
- The efforts - and prison sentences - of the unofficial peace movement had redeemed the similarly contaminated word peace, but "in my country, for ages now, socialism has been no more than an incantation that should be avoided if one does not wish to appear suspect."
- He wrote the last words of The Amateur Poacher - a gospel, an incantation - as an epigraph on all his own books.
- They did not seem to realise how important they were; not self-important, but important to the incantation , the altar, the ritual.
- He muttered the incantation so it was barely audible.
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