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

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

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

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

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

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