Even for us, 'playing' with "Onyx" -- watching scenes unfold, linking strands of narrative differently each time -- has a kind of incantatory quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gail Freedman and Larry Atlas: Browseable Video Story-Worlds: The Future of Film?] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

His speech has a touch of the unreal and the incantatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fear of a Failure to Communicate] Reference

There is something wild and incantatory about McDowell's slide playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To Basics] Reference

Poets have of course long known the incantatory property of place names.    From Wordnik.com.  [Postcard from America: Place Names : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

A battle of empty hands, empty stomachs, incantatory voices, and tired feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PEOPLE'S ARMY AND THE PEOPLE] Reference

He means to be evocative and incantatory; he achieves vagueness and prolixity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

For the next 26 minutes he conjured "Howl," in that voice of his -- stately, nasal, incantatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [55 years after the fact, culture still cries out for Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'] Reference

I need to write a story where the incantatory magic system is based on the Latin names of fungi.    From Wordnik.com.  [like falling stars through the universe we are hurled] Reference

The work, almost incantatory in tone, opposes issues such as fear and love and power and powerlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inger Christensen] Reference

Fisherman mumbles something incantatory, probably to benefit the souls of the gentlemen of the other firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]

Lawrence repeats words abominably, in a manner that must be deliberate trying for some incantatory effect?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

A cut titled “Dull Bulbs, Broken Bylbs Bylblem Fort” is hard-core, aggressive, pneumatic and incantatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disquiet] Reference

"I have heard the incantatory calls to denounce Mugabe, I can also say that that changes nothing," said Michel.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"This incantatory, poetic, staring, thoughtful novel is a heroic act of exploration, feeling, and imagination.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegant Variation:] Reference

NINE Paris/Old Westbury Entering Paris was like emerging into clear water from the incantatory flux of a whirlpool.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

Me, I've got a new sonnet sequence that just might fit the bill, I reckon, being a sort of incantatory seduction spell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

I didn't know, and still don't, its exact meaning, but the words had for me a power in themselves, an incantatory power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five by Jules Olitski, an Inspired Artist-Worker] Reference

She had a very soft and musical voice; and, from what I've read, her readings cast an incantatory spell over the audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

The opening scene is a stunner, hieratic and incantatory, the Ying-Yang Master dancing about the stage and the Shaman declaiming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

Because of its exquisite often witty distillation of feelings and experience, its high-wire acts, incantatory power and chiseled truths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

The prose of the fish-market stories is as graceful and unadorned as a Shaker chair, and its incantatory rhythms are as soothing as old hymns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paragon Of Reporters] Reference

I am praying that beyond the smell of antiseptic and crappy hospital food that you might catch a whiff of something fine and bracing and beseeching and incantatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter to a Sick Friend] Reference

Jon McGregor's third book resembles a novelistic incantatory poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Of all the incantatory words of my childhood, this was the most powerful of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Band of Joy as one of the voices that balance out Plant's incantatory version of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

Rationality can be just another method for incantatory justification and rationalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sentient Developments] Reference

Experimental but rigorous, an incantatory frenzy spirals around the freewheeling narrator.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Sensemaya showed what happens when you import the brutal rhythms and incantatory themes of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Combining Pike's explosive riffing, Cisneros 'hypnotic bass lines and incantatory vocals, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay Bridged - San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music] Reference

What makes Isobel and Emile unusual, however, is its deconstructed, repetitive, almost incantatory prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coach House Books] Reference

Petrushevskaya's stories are condensed, incantatory; to describe them in too much detail would rob them of their power.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

This appeal to truth is incantatory: it is not an argument but a rhetorical ploy that usually involves a false dichotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Siris] Reference

Natty, currently the biggest British reggae star, tries a transported, incantatory mode, whispering, "don't believe what they say.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

His stories march forward at an incantatory, rhythmic pace, and are full of tongue-twisters, word play, and highly inventive vocabulary.    From Wordnik.com. Reference