Incantatory

Word INCANTATORY
Character 11
Hyphenation in cant a to ry
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What some readers will call incantatory began to feel, at times, somewhat repetitive, making me appreciate those moments when a more colloquial voice, usually another speaker, was introduced in a poem, as in "An Idea of Return." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even for us, 'playing' with "Onyx" -- watching scenes unfold, linking strands of narrative differently each time -- has a kind of incantatory quality. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And they have a kind of incantatory, repetitive but -- but incantatory eloquence that is much more apparent, and even the meanings, I think, more apparent if you read it aloud. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Through a kind of incantatory or sacrificial rite, they try to call up and reinstate the tropes, schemas or words which to them distinguish professorial language. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Consider my exercise some kind of incantatory ritual -- a talisman -- meant to hold off the bad spirits just as, when I arrive in Beijing in winter and find the mercury near zero (an increasing rarity these last years) or stumble into a snowstorm in New York City, I’m relieved. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet I doubt there has ever been a Global Routes kid who hasn't uttered the incantatory phrase, "This will look good on my college applications." ❋ Caitlin Flanagan (2011)

The poem's incantatory ending, "Tomorrow is calling/Tomorrow is calling/Do not be afraid," is both a call for strength and for action. ❋ John Lundberg (2011)

Verizon, which usually minds its own business, yesterday applauded the Google-Motorola deal hoping, in incantatory fashion, that an armed peace would let everyone get back to the real job of making products and serving customers. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

If a feast of words -- from the exegetical to the incantatory -- about a feast of pictures was on one's menu, they certainly got their fill. ❋ Michael Kurcfeld (2011)

Karl would deliver all his lectures from memory with a hypnotic, almost incantatory rhythm. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)

Somehow, it seems to me, the whole thing is bound up with the incantatory power of poetry and a true account of the necessity of rhyme and meter for the poem to be vital. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I need to write a story where the incantatory magic system is based on the Latin names of fungi. ❋ Thecoughlin (2010)

We know the characters as archetypes; we know their broad traits and their incantatory phrases. ❋ Matociquala (2010)

Her incantatory, floaty voice and exciting stage presence energized a set that harmonized Gael Rakotondrabe's glorious piano/keyboards and Tez's jaw-dropping beatbox gifts, with sister Bianca's ruthless word wizardry. ❋ S.X. Rosenstock (2010)

Another note, this one handed to him by Lama Katie after the morning cleanup in the temple and the incantatory scraping of the baked-on oatmeal from the depths of the communal cook pot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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