(1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(2) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
(3) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.
(4) The story begins in 16th-century China, where an evil sorcerer, The Son Of Hell, seeks to take over the world.
(5) You’ll often hear a director or production designer complaining that a particular neighbourhood “does not look enough like itself”, and making various cosmetic changes – a nondescript wall in the East Village might be gussied up with flyers for punk shows, for example, or a Chinatown byway given additional Chinese signage and decoration, as was done on Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
(6) Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office, making decisions about whom to explode next (in the interview he calls this responsibility “the bigness of it all”), not gathering dust on a sorcerer’s shelf.
(7) For infertility, witches and spirits can be responsible but suspicion focuses mostly on the evil-doing of another individual, corresponding to the classical description of a sorcerer, and the "witch" or sorcerer is generally a very close relative, possibly even the husband, and sometimes the woman herself, especially when the ritual fails.
(8) The 90s saw a move into big-budget action – Armageddon, The Rock, Con Air – while today, thanks to a Disney deal, he's responsible for more family-oriented juggernauts: The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Prince Of Persia weren't enormous successes; the four Pirates Of The Caribbean films were.
(9) As well as playing Smaug, Cumberbatch is voicing the Necromancer, the evil Mirkwood sorcerer who is revealed in the Lord of the Rings to be the evil spirit Sauron.
(10) Iger could end up playing the role of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, serving under the tutelage of Jobs, the 21st-century conjuror who transforms every industry he touches.
(11) Under the influence of the Christian church, and because of the progress of modern medicine, the power of the sorcerers and healers gradually decreased.
(12) The plants are used by 3 principal practitioners: 1) curanderos (healers), who tend to specialize in the care of certain diseases; 2) herbalists, who use many of the materials used in traditional medicine; and 3) brujos, who are sorcerers and witches.
(13) 'Diviners', 'medicinemen', 'witches' and 'sorcerers' are defined and distinguished.
(14) The traditional providers are the traditional birth attendants, the folk healers, herbalists, faith healers, and the so-called witches and sorcerers, which are not treated in a derogatory manner in the Philippines.
(15) The early-evening crowd in this cosy central London pub have no idea that a sonic sorcerer stands in their midst.
(16) Isis decapitates its victims, just like our friends the Saudis – but again, they kill alleged “sorcerers” off-camera.
(17) The looming debut of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange , a key member of The Avengers in some of the original comic books, has also inspired speculation that the sorcerer supreme could eventually join the superhero team on the big screen.
(18) A powder prepared by Haitian voodoo sorcerers for the making of zombis was extracted with acetic acid, the extract concentrated and applied to a small cation exchange column followed by elution with water and then acetic acid.
(19) The Marvel universe’s sorcerer supreme is a figure expected to have a central role in the studio’s ambitious next wave of superhero movies.
(20) Doctor Strange, who first debuted in 1963, is a former neurosurgeon who protects the planet against magical and mystical threats in his role as Sorcerer Supreme.
Sorcery
Definition:
(n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author encountered a patient who had undergone various sorcery and wizardry practices.
(2) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(3) People will be turned off by the swords and the sorcery and, most of all, by the names."
(4) illness of sorcery, illness of the shades or ancestors and "natural" illness or illness that "just happens".
(5) These have spawned a decadent and west-friendly royal family that preside over a society where clerics run amok, where imams rant against infidels, religious minorities are oppressed, education is heavily slanted towards religion and where people are beheaded for sorcery.
(6) Thus rainmaking and sorcery control, the principal services in traditional African societies, are the focus of this study.
(7) We describe the patterns of illness attributed to sorcery among 209 patients who attended a special clinic in south India.
(8) The two dimensions of witchcraft and of sorcery, though distinct, are seen to be essentially related to one another.
(9) Case histories of black Americans who believe their illness has been caused by sorcery have been reported with increasing frequency in the clinical literature.
(10) The older patients with a mean age of 29.7 years tended to believe the cause was sorcery (puripuri); the younger patients did not.
(11) Within this general aetiological frame, serious diarrhoeal disease of infants is usually seen as sorcery related.
(12) This type of financial sorcery does not come cheap but Blair has pulled off the magic before, having acted as an intermediary between Irish property investor Patrick McKillen and Sheikh Hamad over a potential £70m hotel investment.
(13) Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
(14) These concerns centre on the competing possibilities that the death has been caused either by sorcery or by chronic and heavy consumption of alcohol.
(15) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(16) The rootwork system combines a belief in the magical causation of illness with cures by sorcery and an empiric tradition stressing the natural causation of illness with cures by herbs and medicines.
(17) The results of the study are as follows: the prevalence rate was highest among children under the age of 5 (13.5%); diarrhoea related deaths in relation to total mortality was found to be highest, both in under 5 (41.7%) and above 5 (27.3%); 33.1% of the women believed that diarrhea was caused by the "Will Of God", 11.5% believed that it was caused by sorcery; 29.5% attributed diarrhea to poor sanitation; 63.8% recognized the dangers of diarrhea and realized that it could cause death.
(18) Notions of sorcery, taboo violation and contamination were often expressed when describing the etiologies of locally-recognized sexually transmitted diseases.
(19) He had a brush with big-budget Hollywood film-making in 2006 with the lead role in poorly received swords and sorcery fantasy Eragon .
(20) The interplay of magic and technology works smoothly because, basically, sorcery is often just an incendiary weapon that does expansive damage – sort of a supernatural airstrike.