(n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The Prestige (2006), Christopher Nolan’s film about two battling magicians, Bowie featured as the inventor Nikola Tesla.
(2) Asked on Wednesday if it was disingenuous to say Labor axed the funding, he replied: “The Coalition are like a bunch of B-team magicians trying to make you look everywhere except where the magic trick is actually happening so you can’t work out what’s going on.
(3) Sage Gateshead, 4–7 July Troilus and Cressida Multimedia magician Elizabeth LeCompte from New York's the Wooster Group takes on this most problematic of problem comedies.
(4) Photograph: Screengrab 8.31pm GMT Dicky Bird and Magicial Dynamo The esteemed and ancient Dickie Bird is in some kind of montage with young magician Dynamo.
(5) This article is based on the authors' book "Physician or Magician: The Myths and Realities of Patient Care" (McGraw Hill and Hemisphere, 1978).
(6) Amid the celebrations, held in front of a strange mix of celebrities that included Andy Murray, Danny Cipriani, Dynamo the magician and Katie Price, Haye was magnanimous enough to praise Chisora's durability and what he described as "one of the best chins" he has faced.
(7) His visions were sold to the city with modest pronouncements such as: “All Architects are magicians.
(8) remarkable.." Teller (is he related to the atomic physicist or the magician?
(9) HIS STORY Paul Daniels, magician, 76 We met thanks to the Ayatollah.
(10) She left to set up her own company, initially called Esage Lab (“I was thinking of something ‘sage’, as in a wizard or a magician,” she said).
(11) Crowley, who was also a mountaineer, yoga enthusiast, occultist, poet, painter, rumoured spy and magician, became known in the press as “the wickedest man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband’s death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat.
(12) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
(13) These texts, most of them based on older texts dating possibly from 3000 B.C., are comparatively free of the magician's approach to treating illness.
(14) Alongside the pictures of Hou and Xu with Mao and other leaders, there is one of their son with the magician David Copperfield.
(15) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
(16) It was an act of misdirection worthy of a cheap stage magician, shifting responsibility for economic failure onto those who were barely out of primary school when it happened, a shameless act of divide and rule.
(17) Officers working on the case believe that the level of expertise involved could show the perpetrators imported a magician or priest to carry out the ritual.
(18) The magician's forceps phenomenon as first discovered by Mitsui in exotropia is supposed to be a blocking reflex through the tendon organ.
(19) Astronaut Chris Hadfield, magician David Blaine, author Tim Ferriss and actress Felicia Day are among its “most loved” broadcasters at launch – a metric based on how many hearts they’ve received from viewers.
(20) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.
Whizz
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Crucially, according to IBM whizz David Gondek, Watson has the ability to learn, and so engineers have been feeding it with tens of thousands of books' worth of information.
(2) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
(4) The charity said it wanted to roll back the trend whereby councils made cuts in frontline services to balance squeezed budgets – and the care industry, which employs a million workers, sent staff whizzing between the homes of vulnerable people's houses in shifts as short as 15 minutes.
(5) While shopping centres, stations, airports and many other places are generally private land, whizzing around on a hoverboard requires the permission of the landowner.
(6) The Bay Area UASI helped to fund Urban Shield this year, and the DHS even has its own stall in the vendors’ show where it is showing off the latest whizz-bang tools created by its science and technology directorate.
(7) Volleys of bullets from the rebels' Kalashnikovs whizzed mostly towards army positions, but some flew down the boulevard and prompted those who had crept too close to throw themselves against walls and to the floor.
(8) A PR whizz, Palikot looks to have eaten away at support for the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which won only about 8.2% of the vote.
(9) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
(10) "Month on month, we are losing whizzes who'll basically say, 'I'm sorry, I am going to take three times the salary and the car and whatever else.'"
(11) Well, that's the nature of the medium; as it whizzes past the eyes it seems very relevant but the malady of reality TV stars is that their shelf life expires, like dog years, by the power of seven.
(12) But a whizz around the BBC website reveals a story posted just five days before the Panorama broadcast, explaining the possibilities of tourism to North Korea.
(13) He believes that the private ownership of Global, headed by former Capital whizz kid Ashley Tabor and backed by money from the Irish racing magnates JP McManus and John Magnier, will allow more space for clarity of thought.
(14) It whizzed just wide, as did a thunderous 25-yard drive from Cissé two minutes later.
(15) Toure has a shot from distance that whizzes past the post.
(16) "Mountain bikes whizzing in and out of trees, jumping ramps above horses' heads, around an established sunken horse track, is an accident waiting to happen."
(17) The two men crossed two more streets with bullets whizzing around them before they met up with the rest of their men, a dozen soldiers who were taking cover from a regime tank.
(18) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
(19) One witness, Ibrahim Ghaleb Mohammad al-Sawary, the son of one of the factory directors, told the investigation he heard “whizzing followed by a very loud explosion”.
(20) They chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” as shoppers whizzed past in search of heavily-discounted TVs and vacuum cleaners.